Dear MEL Topic Readers,
The world’s busiest flight routes for 2024 revealed
If you’ve traveled by air this year, you might have found airports busier and airplanes more packed. Airline seat capacity this year has increased over pre-pandemic 2019, and so has the number of air travelers. Then which international routes are busier than others? The top three busiest routes are Hong Kong-Taipei, Cairo-Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), and Seoul Incheon-Tokyo Narita. The Cairo-Jeddah route has been growing swiftly, which was 14th in 2019 but has been number two last year and this year. While the top nine of the busiest routes are relatively short flights mostly within Asia, a trans-Atlantic NY-London route ranked number 10. As for domestic routes, Seoul-Jeju, South Korea’s popular tourist destination, has been the busiest one, followed by Tokyo-Sapporo and Tokyo-Fukuoka. As demands for air travel increase, airlines are trying to increase their seat capacity, which is good news for the travel industry but bad news for the planet as flying aircraft emit more planet-warming gasses than other cleaner transport like trains or EVs.
Read the article and learn which flight routes are busier this year.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/17/travel/worlds-busiest-flight-routes-2024/index.html
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