The world's shortest international flight was just too short to be profitableIt turns out eight minutes is too short for an international flight. READ MORE:* World's shortest international flight: Switzerland to Germany in eight minutes* Short flights: Is it faster to take the bus? * Auckland welcomes world record passenger flight* World's most extreme and scary airportsGOOGLE MAPS Trips by boat or car between to the two towns take about an hour. But the company drew swift condemnation from environmentalists who argued that the amount of fuel required for the short flight disproportionate to what passengers were getting out of it. The world's shortest domestic flight is operated between two villages in the north of Scotland.

Source: Stuff April 05, 2017 22:41 UTC