Timeline for Shortest transatlantic flight from Europe to somewhere, so that continental US can be reached by land (with possible ferry)
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| Mar 1, 2017 at 1:59 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | @BrianDrummond Gander is commonly used by private transatlantic flights, by small planes which don't have the range or other requirements to make a longer, more southerly crossing in a single takeoff and landing. Nevertheless it has full immigration and customs services for any size of passenger or cargo flight. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 19:29 | comment | added | phoog | Still, I don't think Keflavik is unique. Dulles and Newark come to mind (although I don't think any of NYC's airports has "New York" the name, even though two of them are in the city limits). | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 18:58 | comment | added | gerrit | I guess the difference is that Brian goes by what the company Icelandair uses, and I go by what the airport officially uses. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 18:55 | comment | added | gerrit | @phoog There are two airports; one is in Keflavík and is called Keflavík International Airport / Keflavíkurflugvöllur (KEF), the other is in Reykjavík and is called Reykjavík Airport / Reykjavíkurflugvöllur / RKV. The situation near Paris or London is different as all those airports officially have Paris or London in their names, no matter how far from the nominal city they are. "Stockholm Airport Västerås" and "Frankfurt Airport Hahn" claim to be near Stockholm and Frankfurt but aren't; Keflavík International Airport makes no such claim. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 18:03 | comment | added | phoog | @gerrit many (most?) metropolitan airports are actually outside the limits of the city they serve; we never correct those who say they're flying to Paris or Amsterdam, though in the former case we might ask for clarification. As Brian says, if Icelandair calls it Rekjavik then why shouldn't we? | |
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| Feb 28, 2017 at 11:40 | comment | added | gerrit | Also, be aware that ferries Denmark-Iceland arrive at Seyðisfjörður which is poorly connected to the Icelandic bus network and more than 700 km from Keflavík; if you're lucky you can hitch-hike to Akureyi from where buses to Reykjavík are far more frequent, but you need to allow for at least two days to reach Keflavík from Seyðisfjörður. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 11:26 | comment | added | gerrit | That should be Keflavík, not Reykavík. There are intercontinental flights from Reykavík; they are to Greenland, which is in North America (but without a land-based connection to continental US). | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 7:24 | comment | added | Antzi | Too bad the concorde is not flying anymore. Would've been even shorter | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 23:39 | history | edited | user_1818839 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2017 at 23:38 | vote | accept | mzu | ||
| Feb 27, 2017 at 23:29 | comment | added | mzu | @BrianDrummond, there is LHR->YYT (St. Johns, NewFoundland) by Air Canada, but originating from LHR adds 1h20m to the flight time | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 23:04 | comment | added | user_1818839 | Well you'll probably fly over Gander, in Newfoundland, but (a) pretty much nothing international lands there nowadays except for emergencies (which the whole point is to avoid) and (b) I suspect the only onward travel would be another flight. | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 22:10 | comment | added | Tor-Einar Jarnbjo | I have also checked any reasonable airport, but this seems indeed to be the shortest flight. It is a seasonal route however, and only operated by Icelandair from June 3rd to October 15th (2017). Flights from London are in general 1,5 to 2 hours longer to any point in the area. | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 21:59 | comment | added | mzu | Thanks. This gives the ballpark idea. Can it be further reduced? | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 21:37 | history | answered | user_1818839 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |