Top 10 busiest air travel routes of 2012

[Mr_Orange]

Map 11 on this page - 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World «TwistedSifter - shows the world's busiest air routes for 2012. Of interest (to me anyway ) is that most are domestic and number 5 is MEL-SYD.

 

[amaroo]

Very interesting.......the centre of gravity (or something like that) was fascinating. Thanks for posting.

 

[JessicaTam]

Map 11 on this page - 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World «TwistedSifter - shows the world's busiest air routes for 2012. Of interest (to me anyway ) is that most are domestic and number 5 is MEL-SYD.

And four of them are out of NRT.

 

[ketsuzei]

And four of them are out of NRT.

Probably HND...

 

[JessicaTam]

Probably HND...

Maybe I should just stick with 'Tokyo' as per the map.

 

[BoyZeus]

Map 11 on this page - 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World «TwistedSifter - shows the world's busiest air routes for 2012. Of interest (to me anyway ) is that most are domestic and number 5 is MEL-SYD.

Cool website - thanks

 

[Mattg]

That was quite interesting, thanks for sharing

 

[Hvr]

Am glad to say I've flown three of those routes: MEL-SYD Tokyo-CTS and HKG-TPE

 

[footy99]

Interesting list. Would never have guessed #1!

 

[flyingfan]

Very interesting page as a whole, thanks for sharing. And as for busiest routes I've only done MEL-SYD (guess I should realise not every route I use is going to have so many frequent flights to hop onto) and JNB-CPT.

 

[moa999]

Always new Syd-Mel was up there.
Interesting HK-Taipei is the only international* route (depending on your view of Hong Kong and Taipei)

but surprised HVG-PVG/SHA or HKG-PEK don't figure.

 

[kamchatsky]

Love the Longest Straight Line you can sail on Earth graph. Imagine you are lost in sea on a boat and have wind in 1 direction ....

 

[Isochronous]

Glad to have done three: SYD-MEL, HKG-TPE, and both PEK-SHA and PEK-PVG (I wonder if they aggregated the two Shanghai airports in this study?)

 

[The Rok]

Interestingly if you just look at the busiest route in the world for just aircraft movements it's actually MEL-SYD that comes in at no 2.

 

[sjd]

This air travel thing is interesting but I cannot believe we are not talking about number 12 on that list. The rubber ducky map is fantastic! Someone has to make an animated film about that.

 

[get me outta here]

This air travel thing is interesting but I cannot believe we are not talking about number 12 on that list. The rubber ducky map is fantastic! Someone has to make an animated film about that.

There was interesting book about that very thing which opened up a whole new way of looking at ocean currents for me - well worth having a look at (I had to speed read some of it though).

Also, there was a TV program about some slightly OCD types who are are yet another world of those who 'beachcomb' and blog about it. They were invaluable talking about the rubber duckies and the other bits of plastic that fell off that particular tanker and how far and numerous they ended up.

 

[Dino84]

That was a great link, thanks for posting.

Scott.

 

[trentusjuventus]

Interesting HK-Taipei is the only international* route (depending on your view of Hong Kong and Taipei)

The sheer volume of passengers on TPE-HKG is amazing, I do this one regularly, mostly 777/33x and even some 747s, most of the time quite full (some of the AC even have non-regional J/F). You've got CX and KA doing pretty much hourly flights between them, plus CI and BR plying the route as well. It was once referred to as 'golden' as it was so profitable I believe. I suppose it's gotta be called 'International' not least because you need a passport to do it!

 

[JohnK]

Interesting link. Information overload.

I have managed 2 of the routes listed in SYD-MEL and HKG-TPE.