page_title: Flight length
section_title: Route category definitions
hierarchical_section_title: Flight length / Route category definitions
caption_attribution_description: Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 D-ABYF
context_page_description: In aviation, the flight length is defined as the distance of a flight. Commercial flights are often categorized into long-, medium- or short-haul by commercial airlines based on flight length, although there is no international standard definition and many airlines use air time or geographic boundaries instead.
  Route category lengths tend to define short-haul routes as being shorter than 600–800 nmi, long-haul as being longer than 2,200–2,600 nmi, and medium-haul as being in-between.
caption: Lufthansa defines the Boeing 747-8 as a long-haul airliner
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