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For example, there was quite a bit of controversy when Qatar Airways Cargo operated a 24 mile cargo flight between Maastricht to Liege.Īt the same time, I would guess that FedEx isn’t operating this flight for “fun” given how much more expensive it must be than the alternative. Understandably I think a lot of people may raise environmental concerns about this flight, because it sure does seem wasteful. This also has me wondering whether there’s a shorter regularly scheduled jet cargo flight operated anywhere (or at least to & from the US)?.Looking at flight tracking, it looks like this flight was operated for the first time on March 2, so is this in fact related to the pandemic? I know there have been added restrictions at the US-Mexico border due to coronavirus, so is that making it even more complicated to send cargo by land rather than air?.Presumably it’s much faster to transport cargo across the border by plane rather than by truck? If so, anyone have a sense of how much of a time difference we’re talking about? Is the customs screening process just different, is the issue the amount of time it takes to even get to the border checkpoint, or what?.

I’m by no means an expert on FedEx or cargo operations (like I said, I just find this interesting), so I’d love to hear what you guys think: However, in this case the plane just flies from San Diego to Tijuana and back, so that doesn’t appear to be the case.

Generally fly at a maximum altitude of 5,000 feetĪt first when I saw this route I wondered if this was maybe part of a larger “milk run,” as it’s common for cargo airlines to have many stops between an origin and destination in order to drop off and pick up cargo along the way.

Fly an actual distance between 29 miles and 110 miles.

Have a duration between six minutes and 25 minutes.

Often airfare is cheaper out of Tijuana, or maybe there’s a nonstop flight to your destination out of Tijuana, but not out of San Diego.įrom San Diego to Tijuana the flight generally seems to take off into the west, make a 180, and then circle back around to land in Tijuana.įrom Tijuana to San Diego the flight generally seems to fly in an “S” shape, given winds and the need to line up runways.īased on looking at flights in both directions in the past week, the flights seems to:

The two cities are so close to one another that there’s even the Cross Border XPress, which is a bridge intended for those in San Diego who want to fly out of Tijuana. What makes this so interesting is that the direct air distance between the two airports is just 18 miles. These flights are operated by FedEx Boeing 757-200s, with flight number FX69 to the US, and FX70 to Mexico. For the past several months, FedEx seems to be operating at least one daily roundtrip flight between San Diego and Tijuana.