Flight length
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In aviation, the flight length is defined as the time airborne during a flight.
| Short-haul flight: | <3 hours |
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| Medium-haul flight: | 3 to 6 hours |
| Long-haul flight: | >6 hours |
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[edit] Domestic
A short-haul domestic flight is commonly categorized into being no longer than 500 miles or under 1.5 hours in length, meaning that all domestic flights within a country such as the UK are short-haul. In addition to this criterion, the destination airport must reside in the same country as the departure airport. Domestic flights can vary greatly in length due to some countries being larger than others. For this reason, it is near impossible to define a domestic flight as "short" even if more often than not, it is.
|Airbus A319, a typical domestic-haul aircraft.]]
[edit] Exceptions
Ryanair considers that flights to other nearby countries are domestic.[citation needed]
[edit] Short-haul flights
A short-haul flight is defined by Thomas Cook Airlines as a flight under 3 hours in length. [1]
[edit] Long-haul flights
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A long-haul flight is defined by Thomas Cook Airlines as a flight over 7 hours in length. [2]
[edit] Large aircraft
On many long-haul flights, jet airliners refuel in order to reach the target destination. Many aircraft companies are designing larger aircraft that can travel much further distances and carry more passengers than current conventional aircraft.
