Official Airline Guide publishes its busiest airline routes for 2023

Friday, December 29, 2023

The world’s busiest airline routes are the subject of the most recent analysis released by AG, a prominent data platform for the travel sector.

The busiest air routes are those that have the most scheduled airline seats in 2023, according to the analysis. The data covers both ends of flights on each of the routes.

Using OAG’s Global Airline Schedules Data as its primary source, the analysis offers a comprehensive picture of route performance and trends on a national and international level.

With seven of the top ten international and nine of the top ten domestic routes worldwide, Asia-Pacific once again boasts the most busy travel routes in the world.

When it comes to the most popular domestic flight routes, Asia leads the pack, with Japan at the top. The top three destinations for flights from Tokyo to popular holiday spots were Okinawa, also referred to as “the Hawaii of Japan,” Sapporo, a prominent winter sports destination, and Fukuoka, a major gastronomic city and gateway to South Korea.

Major cities in larger nations, like Australia’s Melbourne and Sydney, and China’s Beijing and Shanghai, were connected by a few of the busiest routes.

With only 60 minutes’ flight time between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Singapore, the busiest route for 2023 is predicted to be between these two cities based on available airline seat capacity.

4.9 million tickets were taken on the route overall, up 50% from the previous year, according to OAG.

A close second with almost 4.8 million tickets were flights from Cairo to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which was the busiest in 2022 but overtook it this year.

Between the two well-liked business and vacation hubs of London Heathrow Airport and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, there was only one Western route.

The busiest airports in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa are Jeddah – Riyadh (7,902,142 seats), Sao Paulo – Congonhas – Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont (5,759,732 seats) in Latin America, and Honolulu – Kahului (3,612,212 seats) in the United States.

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