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I'm curious to know a few things about the trip length of various types of airliners. I've searched the web but I couldn't really find anything.

How far does a Regional Jet like the CRJ-700 fly on average?

How far does a small Commercial Airliner like the 737-800 fly on average?

How far would a medium Commercial Airliner like the 767-300 fly on average?

Thanks for the info! I hope to make my flight simming experience a bit more realistic!

A CRJ isnt really made for a long route. Ive flown on one from Denver to Aspen (20 mins) and Ive seen some flights from San Fransico to Calgary on a CRJ.

A 767 can range lots of routes but a flight I know of is from San Fransico to Charleston (South Carolina) (5-6 hours)

A 737 can also fly diffrent routes ive flown from Oakland to Denver. Im sure it can make even longer routes than a 2 hour flight but it might be used for 3-4 hour flights.

Hope this helps  ;)

The USAF's C-40/737 specs are this if it helps:

Speed: 530 mph (Mach 0.
Ceiling: 41,000 feet (12,727 meters)
Maximum Range: 4,500 to 5,000 nautical miles (based on payload) unrefueled range

From Boeing:
767-200ER=6,590 nautical miles (12,200 km)
Typical city pairs:
New York to Beijing

767-300ER=5,975 nautical miles
(11,065 km)
Typical city pairs:
Frankfurt to Los Angeles

767-400ER=5,625 nautical miles
(10,415 km)
Typical city pairs:
London to Tokyo,
Newark to Moscow
Chicago to Warsaw

Each summer I usually take a trip on a Northwest Airlines CRJ-200, or a Northwest DC-9 from Pennsylvania to Minnesota (about 800 nautical miles), and I've seen similar ranges from other flights.

737-800's can go transcontinental (North America) if they need to, and I know that before Aloha Airlines went under, they would do Honolulu to southern California routes, and sometimes to Las Vegas also.

Medium commercial airliners are usually used now for pure transcons, or ocean crossings, such as New York to LAX (transcon) or NY to EGLl (Atlantic Crossing).

However, one summer on my annual trip to Minnesota, I took a 757-200 between Detroit, Michigan, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, so the big ones can be used on short, high density routes as well.  ;)

What would be short, high density routes?

Thank you the information so far!

I've flown a BA 767 from London to Amsterdam many moons ago, 40 min flight, about 250nm. Granted, it was because he 737 went tech and 2 flights were cancelled.. they just got a bigger plane to carry us all.

What would be short, high density routes?

Thank you the information so far!

Many japanese airlines use 747's on short domestic routes because the demand is so high. ANA are known for their cattle class 747s.....

Shortest hop I've done on one is Incheon (Seoul) to Osaka which took about 3 hours with Korean Air

Use of aircraft on certain routes is more of a capacity than a range issue for most airlines.....

.mic

it really depends on the airline, i flew MAN-DUB on a Ryanair 737-800 and it took 25 minutes there and 35 coming back wheras other airlines use the same type for 4-5 hours.