From London to Paris, winging through the busiest air routes in the world

Asian cities dominated the list, cementing the region's status as the world's fastest-growing travel market

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Business Standard
Last Updated : Jan 10 2018 | 3:33 AM IST
The world’s busiest air route isn’t London to Paris or New York to Los Angeles, but the trip between Seoul and a tiny island off the coast of South Korea. 

Planes made 65,000 trips between the Korean capital and Jeju island — a journey of little more than an hour — in 2017, equivalent to 178 flights a day, according to data from OAG Aviation Worldwide. 

That’s nearly double the 35,000 trips on the busiest North American route: Los Angeles to San Francisco. Asian cities dominated the list, cementing the region’s status as the world’s fastest-growing travel market. 

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Asia dominates the world's busiest air routes


Here are some of the busiest air routes 

Total jet departures and arrivals in 2017


 

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Asia dominates the world's busiest air routes

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First Published: Jan 10 2018 | 3:12 AM IST

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