Amadeus Announces World’s Busiest Routes
Every day, tens of thousands of commercial aircraft take off and land in different locales throughout the world. In the US alone, approximately 28,000 flights occur on a daily basis! Have you ever wondered which routes are the busiest? Well, whether you have or you haven’t, we’ve got the answers for you thanks to analyst corporation Amadeus Total Demand.
Their most recent report examined 2010 and 2011 trends in worldwide passenger demand between regions, countries and specific airports. However, it’s important to note that routes were regarded as departure and final destination locations – regardless of the number of connections.
Without a doubt, Asia is leading the pack for inter-city routes. Of the top fifteen routes listed, ten were specifically Asian routes. The route connecting South Korea’s Jeju Airport with Seoul proved the busiest route of all courses worldwide, serving roughly 10 million passengers. Not surprisingly, a US route does not even appear on the list until number 18!
That said, with an estimated 60 million annual passengers, air traffic between North America and Europe remains the busiest inter-regional flow, directly in front of Asia-North America routes which serve approximately 53 million.
Finally, North America leads for the average connecting rate of the ten busiest airport hubs with 45%, compared to 32% in Europe and 19% in Asia. For air travel between the three regions, roughly 50% of all travelers have at least one connecting flight.