Fred's Fun Fact: Shortest Flight

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread Show is on Ye Fread's Fun Fact Fred's
Fun so much. You know, I believe I've done this
one before, way in the past, and I could have
just done it and not said it, but Rufio would
point it out, so I'm getting ahead of him. That

(00:22):
being said, I think it is very interesting. There's a flight.
It is the shortest commercial flight in the world. How
long would you guess, For those of you who don't
know this, how long would you guess the shortest commercial
flight in the world lasts twelve minutes? Are you talking
like from takeoff or just in the air the whole well,

(00:42):
I mean, I don't taxi time and air traffic control delays.
I don't know. I have no idea I'm saying. I'm saying,
you go the plane, start it up, they fly land.
How long do you think that takes? Thirty minutes, seven
three minutes, eleven fifty seven seconds stop it. Yeah, there's
a flight between two Scottish islands of Westtray and Papa

(01:05):
Westray that only lasts fifty seven seconds. Because it's a
distance of one point seven miles, it's the shortest commercial
flight in the world. The trip is made via a
eight seater plane, and it could take longer if there
are strong winds. I've seen the video about this. I
think it's because there's there isn't a road that connects them,
so they have to use a plane for some reason.
There's not like a bridge or something. I was about

(01:26):
to get upset, boy, because you could be like, why
would you take that when you could drive exactly walk?
You know, the other day, I was at O'Hare and
I saw, no, this is no joke. I met here,
I'm walking through the gates. It's like Paris, you know, Topeka,
you know Phoenix, I love Wichita. I don't know Miami Midway,

(01:48):
Midway Airport. I'm like, wait a minute. I actually walked up.
I had to. I walked into the counter. I'm like,
can you explain this? Like what really get? I get
that there are like super short connections, like you can
go Chicago to Milwaukee, you can go Charlotte to Raleigh,
you know, whatever whatever it is. And I understand that
that's because you might be connecting from a place where

(02:11):
they don't have it where you are, Like, for example,
if you try to like Paris, you can't go direct,
then you may have to go to a big airport,
but you have to get home, so they just move
your bags over and so it's like you wouldn't necessarily
drive up to the airport. But I'm like what, what
why And they were like, oh, well, it's a reposition flight,
and like the board just automatically updates to wherever it's going.
So the plan landed from planlanded from wherever, and then

(02:31):
they had to move it. But I'm like, you can't
honestly tell me. Somebody came from LA to Chicago O'Hare
and was like, not close enough, not close enough, need
you to fly me over to the other side of town. Yeah,
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