World Record

Loganair

We continue to enjoy getting to know Scotland; trips around the country have been an important part of that. Now, keep in mind that Scotland has fewer people and a smaller land mass than Virginia. With that having been said, it has its own airline. Loganair has about 50 aircraft serving about the same number of destinations. Remarkably, one of its destinations is on the island of Barra where scheduled flights use a tidal beach as the runway; the only official tidal beach runway in the world.

Loganair also holds the world record for the shortest scheduled passenger flight; Westray to Papa Westray. Flights on this route are scheduled for one and a half minutes, and actual flying time is closer to one minute. The record for the fastest flight is 53 seconds. Total distance traveled, 1.7 miles. This record-breaking journey is shorter than the length of the runway at most major airports. One pilot has completed this flight over 12,000 times; another world record.

Now we will get to know something about another area of Scotland. We just flew Loganair to the Outer Hebrides where we are spending some time on the isle of Lewis and Harris.