世界上最短的航线 仅飞不到两分钟!（英语双语阅读）

MarketWatch has found the world's shortest commercially operated flight. 近日，《市场观察网》找到了世界上最短的商业航线。 It takes less than two minutes between Westray and Papa Westray, two of the Orkney Islands that sit just north of Scotland in the UK. 韦斯特雷岛和帕帕韦斯特雷岛是位于英国苏格兰北部的奥克尼群岛中的两座岛屿，这两座岛屿之间的航班飞行时间不到两分钟。 Loganair, a regional airline, charges 21 pounds for a round trip. 由地区航空公司洛根航空公司运营的这条航线往返票价为21英镑。

The distance between the two Orkney isles is 1.7 miles -- about 6,110 times less than the world's longest flight, a flight that links Singapore with New York. 两个岛屿之间的距离为1.7英里，只及世界最长航线--新加坡至纽约航线飞行距离的1/6110左右。 And the world's longest flight is about 1,080 times longer in flight time than the world's shortest. 而世界最长航线的飞行时间，大约是这一最短航线的1080倍。