The Top 5 Global International Flight Routes Revealed

Today we thought it would be interesting to go over the busiest international flight routes in the world - examining the number of seats for a set period of time, as well as the major airlines and aircraft types operating these routes. Data comes from aviation analytics firm OAG and is based on scheduling data from September 2024.

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[adstix]

Well-researched video!
Rather interesting that US trans Atlantic flights don't even come close!
Numbers don't lie!

[lonewolf]

Insanely underrated channel nice to watch you grow!

[fastaf]

HKG-TPE route with almost 40 flights per day and no departure from 2am to 7am, it’s on average one departure for every 30mins. That’s insane.

[aghif]

Also for KUL-SIN route, Jetstar also operates daily. This route is insane

[claudiojaramillo]

The fact that there's no HSR between KL and Singapore is baffling to me

[raulblaga]

I was expecting to see the London-New York route as well 😮

[Krizzzzz]

Nice! please do the same for Long Haul Routes :)

[TENDONGSIMPLICE]

thanks for sharing the update it was interesting.

[ambergris]

Very interesting video! For sure geography plays a role, but so do politics. All of those destinations are between countries with long standing historical and economic ties, but that don't necessarily have a friendly relationship. Road or rail alternatives then suffer from excessive and unpleasant border crossing, that is notoriously easier at the airport. Besides, you expect a long process at the airport anyways, and it's in general more reliable than on land borders. So when the option is open, you will want to take the plane. Similarly close cities in Europe (Paris, London, Brussels, Barcelona, Milan) all can be reached with trains just as easily, don't require any border crossing (except London) and enjoy a greener approach to travelling, hence the lower amount of flight passengers.

[abuakmal]

The old KUL airport in Subang had 3 terminals with T2 was a dedicated terminal for KUL-SIN.

[yatsumleung]

HKG - TPE is also for stopover flights to the USA or Japan. A bit cheaper than flying direct.

CX routinely schedule their widebodies to fly this route immediately after a long haul flight. So for a short flight there are actually flat bed first class seats available.

[rileygale_]

2:50 There is also a flight once a day operated by Ethiopian airline which its route is adis-ababa - seoul - tokyo. Also Air Premia which operates 4 times a week

[hanj]

Korean air and Asiana also fly between ICN an HND daily as well

[Sacto]

Kuala Lumpur-Singapore may drop dramatically once the long-planned high-speed rail line between the two cities opens.

[jareds]

Watching this video 2 hrs after release waiting to board Singapore Airlines KUL - SIN wondering if we should have just driven…

[ThatBearHasMoxie]

I had no idea the Asian routes were so busy and so lucrative to airlines. WOW!

[marlontharusha]

All of them regional, so please do a video on long-haul routes as well please!

[isaaclao]

1 thing to note for Cathay flights between HKG and TPE is that the rare 777-300 (The non-ER variant) also regularly fly between those 2 cities

[cyclonicleo]

The bus routes between SIN-KUL is much cheaper and on some buses, far more comfortable. If you're lucky with traffic and border crossings, you'll get there a couple of hours slower than flying but its more convenient, arguably.

[MaxCheng]

For HKG-TPE, most CAL flights are operated by 738 and 32Q, though 333 and rarely 77W are also deployed on regular basis