@@boyfunkboy and sadly it was because Mahathir and the previous administration wanted to paint a bad picture to Najib (also because Mahathir dont really like Singapore). They also managed to brainwashed most urban Malaysian to not support the HSR, citing it is a waste of money.
Back in 2019 before COVID: 1. Hong Kong - Taipei (7,965,538 seats) 2. Kuala Lumpur - Singapore (5,560,894 seats) 3. Jakarta - Singapore (5,480,000 seats) 4. Bangkok - Hong Kong (4,826,872 seats) 5. Hong Kong - Shanghai (4,463,658 seats) 6. Hong Kong - Seoul (3,942,875 seats) 7. Hong Kong - Manila (3,852,991 seats) 8. London LHR - New York JFK (3,833,701 seats) 9. Bangkok - Singapore (3,832,494 seats) 10. Kuala Lumpur - Jakarta (3,798,559 seats) In other words, the busiest international route of 2022 with 3,234,683 seats cannot even get into the top 10 of 2019. And the 2,443,176 seats for KUL-SIN in 2022 is not even half of the 2019 figures as is the case for most of the East Asian markets, while the LHR-JFK route has recovered more, as is true for the European and North American markets. It now largely depends on how fast China reopens its borders, because China alone has a multiplier effect across the entire Asia-Pacific, and not just those routes into China / Hong Kong.
I flew Singapore - Kuala Lumpur last December, with Singapore Airlines. The plane wasn’t even half full. I think it would be interesting to also analyze the occupancy of all these available seats.
HKG-TPE used to be top 3, if not the top, but the pandemic induced travel restriction on airport and airliner capacity has put a huge damp to that number that has yet to recover
I flew Jeddah-Cairo in September, it was a full plane A330, and there were another 3 flights spaced like 60-90 minutes apart all going to the Cairo too !
Would be interesting to do city pairings next. NYC (incl EWR) and London (incl Gatwick) would probably rank top or close to top. Tokyo has two huge airports as well.
If they did that...London - Dubai wouls crush the list...from London's oficial 6 airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, City and Southend) Emirates runs services from the 3 biggest...
I flew from DXB to RUH. I was so surprised to see the plane of choice was a 777-300 when I bought the ticket! Then I saw the amount of people taking that plane… Close to 98% full! 😄
2. I flew London Heathrow - Dubai International this October, and I flew Kuala Lumpur - Singapore Changi literally 5 Days ago. I flew London Heathrow - Newark in February of this year, Newark not JFK, so not quite. :D
what is the combined between 3 "NY" airports and LAX? I am pretty sure if they combined the three to LA it would rank maybe at least #5 also would be an interesting series if you did each country individually...
New York to LAX is not international. But I think about 5 London airports have flights to NY, so it would be interesting to see the total numbers between New York and London.
How seasonal are the Saudi routes? Those both look to be Haji driven as they go from big international hubs to Saudi airports which generally have low connectivity.
That may be partially true, atleast in Jeddah's case. Haj pilgrims usually take two air routes, one where they land at the Hajj terminal in Jeddah and the other where they land in Medina and take a trip back to Mecca. The travel itself is organized as a deal between the governments of Saudi Arabia and the Haji's country and most of the pilgrims travel in the national carriers of both countries directly to Jeddah. The Riyadh-Dubai route become a prominent business travel route owing to new Saudi regulations which required several multinational firms to set up new offices in Saudi Arabia in addition to the regional HQ that's usually based in Dubai. The Cairo-Jeddah route would include the Hajj pilgrimage and also the personal travel of several hundred thousand Egyptians currently working in Saudi Arabia.
DXB-RUH is nearly 100% driven by management consultants doing the weekly commute between their base office (Dubai) and the client location (Riyadh). At least for Sunday-Wednesday / Monday-Thursday cycle. Nothing seasonal about it, those flights are fully booked all year round.
Right? If Heathrow-Newark and Gatwick-JFK were added to the London to make full New York-London numbers it could have gone up a few places (the London City-JFK flights have been discontinued)
If you consider city pairs, then definitely Dublin-London would feature in Top 3! Dublin has flights to all 5 London airports! And would be served by just 3 airlines - AerLingus, BA,Ryanair
Honesty, this video makes it clear just how many routes that we regularly fly could be better served by HSR. I'm a huge avgeek, but for the majority of short-medium haul flights, trains would be better for doing the job, and way better environmentally.
DXB-RUH on Sunday + Monday morning and return on Wednesday + Thursday evening are nearly 100% populated by management consultants. It's just a sea of navy blue suits as far as the eye can see. Source: I'm one of them 😅
@@drt1605 I understand that some time ago it was the busiest domestic route in the world. In other countries High Speed Trains take most of the traffic for air routes under about 600 km, but SYD-MEL is much longer than that, so I think it will continue to be a very busy route, even if they do build a HST. Politicians always talk about it just before elections, but the distance is much too far for a HST to make economic sense.
Can you please check if Seoul Gimpo - Jeju is not in the top 5. There are literally flights every 5/10 minutes, all day every day between these two. Also I thought Sao Paulo CGH & Rio SDU would be in there. Again many flights an hour.
I’m just surprised no flight between the USA and Latin America were on here and yes I have flown one of them as the one which is from jfk my home airport to LHH
DXB-RUH and return are almost always 100% full. There's an UNFATHOMABLE number of people living in Dubai who serve clients in Riyadh doing the weekly commute. Management consultants are the easiest example.
This ranking is measured by the number of seats available NOT the number of flights. If it went by the number of flights then this list would have been different.
Why would the number of flights be more accurate, when that can be influenced significantly by the size of individual aircraft. Smaller routes operated by plenty of small planes end up outranking major air routes operated by huge wide-bodies.
Singapore - Kuala Lumpur is just screaming for a modern High Speed Rail connection
There was to be one but Malaysia cancelled it in 2018 🙄
Absolutely 😞
@@boyfunkboy bummer 🤦♂️
@@boyfunkboy and sadly it was because Mahathir and the previous administration wanted to paint a bad picture to Najib (also because Mahathir dont really like Singapore). They also managed to brainwashed most urban Malaysian to not support the HSR, citing it is a waste of money.
Back in 2019 before COVID:
1. Hong Kong - Taipei (7,965,538 seats)
2. Kuala Lumpur - Singapore (5,560,894 seats)
3. Jakarta - Singapore (5,480,000 seats)
4. Bangkok - Hong Kong (4,826,872 seats)
5. Hong Kong - Shanghai (4,463,658 seats)
6. Hong Kong - Seoul (3,942,875 seats)
7. Hong Kong - Manila (3,852,991 seats)
8. London LHR - New York JFK (3,833,701 seats)
9. Bangkok - Singapore (3,832,494 seats)
10. Kuala Lumpur - Jakarta (3,798,559 seats)
In other words, the busiest international route of 2022 with 3,234,683 seats cannot even get into the top 10 of 2019. And the 2,443,176 seats for KUL-SIN in 2022 is not even half of the 2019 figures as is the case for most of the East Asian markets, while the LHR-JFK route has recovered more, as is true for the European and North American markets.
It now largely depends on how fast China reopens its borders, because China alone has a multiplier effect across the entire Asia-Pacific, and not just those routes into China / Hong Kong.
I flew Singapore - Kuala Lumpur last December, with Singapore Airlines. The plane wasn’t even half full. I think it would be interesting to also analyze the occupancy of all these available seats.
You’ll be surprised, at times all flights are full
At the time both countries are yet to open there borders malaysia only fully opened there borders in April 2022 and same goes to Singapore
Then you look at it many backpackers would use bus from SG to KL.
Maybe it's because of covid 19 restrictions
It was completely full when I flew SQ Singapore - KL this October, and that was just one of SQ’s seven daily flights on this route
Let me guess:LHR-JFK is going to be on this list.
Unfortunately not 😢
@@commoncommenter1396 Yes it is.
The Europeans gave way to the Americans who are now giving way to Asians. The economy of Asia is going to be so much larger than any other continent.
@@PlayerTorpedo156 don’t give it away! Now no one will watch the video any more
😂😂😂
HKG-TPE used to be top 3, if not the top, but the pandemic induced travel restriction on airport and airliner capacity has put a huge damp to that number that has yet to recover
yeah, we took it like buses before. many same day trips.
I flew Jeddah-Cairo in September, it was a full plane A330, and there were another 3 flights spaced like 60-90 minutes apart all going to the Cairo too !
HKG -TPE route no longer on the list due COVID-19 travel restrictions. Hopefully that route will get back to the list soon..
My failed guesses... Delhi-Dubai, Beijing-Singapore, London-Paris, Sydney-Singapore and Toronto-NY...BTW i got 1 right the London-NY
Being from the states i sometimes forget that international can mean like a 45 min flight lol
Seattle-Vancouver wouldn't be much longer, would it?
Would be interesting to do city pairings next. NYC (incl EWR) and London (incl Gatwick) would probably rank top or close to top. Tokyo has two huge airports as well.
If they did that...London - Dubai wouls crush the list...from London's oficial 6 airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, City and Southend) Emirates runs services from the 3 biggest...
SIN - CGK was 3rd busiest international route pairing in 2019 (almost 5.5mil seat) but in 2022, not even in top 10. I hope the route can recover soon
I did not expect the #1 spot
The Singapore - Kuala Lumpur route would be a good one for high speed rail
You can blame politicians for this one.
@@purplerabbit638 sadly even the train needs 3 change of train
Singapore to woodlands (border)
Woodlands to JB
JB to gemas
Gemas to kuala lumpur
@@neljonhporia That's not high speed rail, that the present rail service.
@@MarkUKInsects oh fair
HOW ABOT MEDIUM SPEED RAIL???
It would be interesting to see what the busiest transoceanic routes are!
Wow I wasn’t expecting that last one
I'd imagine the Hajj would be a big factor in that one being so high. Jeddah is pretty close to Mecca.
Now I see why Emirates use the A380 on the Dubai - Heathrow leg. That's a lot of seats!
I thought Heathrow to JFK would have been number 1
Same
well given the fact that more american carriers fly out of jfk to lhr instead of flying out of lhr to jfk, you can probably tell by that
I think 3 New York airports have flights to about 5 London airports, so it would be interesting to see the total numbers between New York and London.
It would be more interesting to know which airline flew the highest number of passengers over the longest routes.
My question is how many of those seats are actually being used?
That is the key question. Great Reset anyone?
I am flight attendant at Egypt air and all flights to jeddah are 98% full
The Dubai - London route is almost always full.
@@daniel11111 Great to hear that. Other routes?
@@thesmallnotesduo sorry, I can’t be of much help with that. I have never flown the other routes in this list.
I flew CAI-JED several times, last one was Sep 2022, I tried Saudia, Egyptair and Flynas and all were very good
I feel like 3 of this routes could easily be supplemented by high speed rail.
i've done the JED-CAI and back sector this year and in 2019 didnt know it would be the busiest wow..
Fascinating👍
I was honestly expecting to see JFK - LHR in the first place.... CAI - JED would never even cross my mind.
I flew from DXB to RUH. I was so surprised to see the plane of choice was a 777-300 when I bought the ticket! Then I saw the amount of people taking that plane… Close to 98% full! 😄
I was expecting LHR to be there but I am surprised that there is not DEL or BOM
They are big cities with big airports but they aren't as well established within the international hub market as KUL,LHR,JFK, DXB etc
BOM - DXB is 9th busiest Intl. city pair.
The very top one surprised me! I would have thought JFK-LHR would be higher on the list.
2. I flew London Heathrow - Dubai International this October, and I flew Kuala Lumpur - Singapore Changi literally 5 Days ago. I flew London Heathrow - Newark in February of this year, Newark not JFK, so not quite. :D
Emirates from London - Dubai. Air Asia from Kuala Lumpur - Singapore. And not that it counts but United from London - Newark.
I guess the pandemic really did a shake up in this list as it could have been different.
what is the combined between 3 "NY" airports and LAX? I am pretty sure if they combined the three to LA it would rank maybe at least #5
also would be an interesting series if you did each country individually...
New York to LAX is not international. But I think about 5 London airports have flights to NY, so it would be interesting to see the total numbers between New York and London.
I excepted New York - Los Angeles to make the list !
I love that famous American geography knowledge, LA and NYC are in the same country so not international
Its called “international” routes
american geography
@@spc2546 ahah !! Indeed ! I missed a word !
How seasonal are the Saudi routes? Those both look to be Haji driven as they go from big international hubs to Saudi airports which generally have low connectivity.
That may be partially true, atleast in Jeddah's case. Haj pilgrims usually take two air routes, one where they land at the Hajj terminal in Jeddah and the other where they land in Medina and take a trip back to Mecca. The travel itself is organized as a deal between the governments of Saudi Arabia and the Haji's country and most of the pilgrims travel in the national carriers of both countries directly to Jeddah.
The Riyadh-Dubai route become a prominent business travel route owing to new Saudi regulations which required several multinational firms to set up new offices in Saudi Arabia in addition to the regional HQ that's usually based in Dubai.
The Cairo-Jeddah route would include the Hajj pilgrimage and also the personal travel of several hundred thousand Egyptians currently working in Saudi Arabia.
DXB-RUH is nearly 100% driven by management consultants doing the weekly commute between their base office (Dubai) and the client location (Riyadh). At least for Sunday-Wednesday / Monday-Thursday cycle. Nothing seasonal about it, those flights are fully booked all year round.
Not expecting much of a difference but would be interested in knowing routes by cities not by specific airports
Right? If Heathrow-Newark and Gatwick-JFK were added to the London to make full New York-London numbers it could have gone up a few places (the London City-JFK flights have been discontinued)
If you consider city pairs, then definitely Dublin-London would feature in Top 3! Dublin has flights to all 5 London airports! And would be served by just 3 airlines - AerLingus, BA,Ryanair
Wrong data
Jeju - Seoul
Bangkok -Singapore
Tokyo -Osaka
Is much more crowded than all these 5
Two. KUL-SIN and KUL-LHR.
Surprised not to see intra Europe.
Honesty, this video makes it clear just how many routes that we regularly fly could be better served by HSR. I'm a huge avgeek, but for the majority of short-medium haul flights, trains would be better for doing the job, and way better environmentally.
Surprised by the arabian conections. I did several KL-SG flights on AirAsia
Is there any way to know the busiest routes involving Latin American cities as BOG, GRU, EZE, MEX, SCL, LIM?
XYI-HKG might be on the list when China reopens, although one can argue it's not a plane operated service
BA positioning themselves to take advantage of the market up turn. Hopefully when the good times role in, they will be a well oiled lean business.
Have to admit all these inter middle eastern routes being so high was surprising to me.
Can you do a busiest regional flights next?
IF you meant the busiest domestic one, it goes to Seoul Gimpo(GMP) to Jeju(CJU).
Very interesting
DXB-RUH on Sunday + Monday morning and return on Wednesday + Thursday evening are nearly 100% populated by management consultants. It's just a sea of navy blue suits as far as the eye can see.
Source: I'm one of them 😅
I was expecting SYD-MEL to be up there
That's a domestic route, not international.
@@drt1605 I understand that some time ago it was the busiest domestic route in the world. In other countries High Speed Trains take most of the traffic for air routes under about 600 km, but SYD-MEL is much longer than that, so I think it will continue to be a very busy route, even if they do build a HST. Politicians always talk about it just before elections, but the distance is much too far for a HST to make economic sense.
busiest overall route is seoul gimpo to jeju
Thought JFK-LHR would for sure be #1… I was wrong
I’m curious on the breakdown of classes of those seats. What percentage was business class vs economy, for example.
Cairo Jeddah - all 3 million seats are not by chance in a one week of Hadj ?
This is an interesting test indeed
I expected two route and they were there; DXB - LHR and LHR - JFK!
I would love to know what are the highest served routes by number of flights per day/week/year. I reckon LHR-MAD has to be up there.
Expected Singapore - Jakarta in the rank
Omg, WHAT?! I’m SHOCKED at the number 1 busiest!!! I wonder why!! JFK-LHR was definitely not a surprise! I’m surprised BKK isn’t on the list!
Oh and also, I laughed hard when the guy said, “why do they have such similar names? We don’t know.” Such a mischievous naughty tone! Loved it! 😂😂😂😂
Can you please check if Seoul Gimpo - Jeju is not in the top 5. There are literally flights every 5/10 minutes, all day every day between these two. Also I thought Sao Paulo CGH & Rio SDU would be in there. Again many flights an hour.
KLM doesnt serve KUL-SIN. Its server KUL-CGK. Outbound SIan,, KLm serves DPS and AMS
Surprisingly no North East Asia route in the rank. Perhaps due to strict Covid measures in the area.
I was expecting JFK-LHR to be on the list and my prediction was right
Jetblue flies to London's Gatwik airport, not LHR
I’m just surprised no flight between the USA and Latin America were on here and yes I have flown one of them as the one which is from jfk my home airport to LHH
Could have guessed 2-5 no problem, but I would have never guessed #1
I flew Dubai to Riyadh
Good guide to the routes best avoided if possible 😂😂
Cool 👍
Penerbangan masih menjadi moda transportasi udara yang paling cepat dan efektif , belum bisa disusul dengan moda trànsportasi yang lain
Suprised at the top 2 - anyone know why? I honestly expected it to be a Chinese route, just because of the sheer number of people
I wonder how many actually fly the Jeddah-Cairo & Riyadh-Dubai routes, if they'd still be at the same position or at least near the top
Those seats are probably filled. You are forgetting the words largest tourist trip centres on Mecca and drives those numbers.
I am flight attendant at Egypt air and they are all almost full everytime
DXB-RUH and return are almost always 100% full. There's an UNFATHOMABLE number of people living in Dubai who serve clients in Riyadh doing the weekly commute. Management consultants are the easiest example.
The middle east routes are jokes. I flew Riyadh to Dubai in a 777, there were less than 50 passengers.
LHR-JFK BA
SYD-MEL i have just completed on Retro roo II.
But it pales compared to these
Surprised Egypt to Saudi
London to Hong Kong
What about DEL-BOM?
I thought New York - Dubai would be on the list.
singapura kuala is a crime!!! such rich countries why dont they built HST between them???
Was London - Dublin not one of the busiest routes? Or maybe that was the airway between the 2 city’s?
Descending order? Don't you mean Ascending order, given that you stsrted at no. 5 and finished at no. 1?
Is Cairo to Jeddah due to Hajj pilgrimage?
I believe Jeju to Seoul Gimpo takes the top spot.
You believe that's an international flight?
Did Jeju become independent from South Korea?
I thought that the longest route would be long-haul.
This ranking is measured by the number of seats available NOT the number of flights. If it went by the number of flights then this list would have been different.
Why would the number of flights be more accurate, when that can be influenced significantly by the size of individual aircraft. Smaller routes operated by plenty of small planes end up outranking major air routes operated by huge wide-bodies.
I think Dubai and London
I was expecting number of flights and not number of seats.
Now, the busiest domestic routes are?
we now know who make most of the polution damn those break aways province
Seoul Gimpo to Jeju?
That’s a domestic flight
I thought SIN-CGK had more seats available than SIN-KUL.
First list that does not have china ! 😄
Seoul to Jeju?
Is not an international flight
Quite surprised to see Tokyo - Osaka missing from this list😮
This list focused on International routes; Osaka and Tokyo are both in Japan
Using data from the pandemic period is not very accurate as some of the biggest hubs in east Asia were barely open for traffic.
Mumbai to Dubai.
I wonder which is Africa's busiest route.
mar a lago to moscow is most busiest.
If each plane had an average of 300 seats available that would be ~30 flights per day for the busiest route
Busiest is Glasgow to dubai and dubai to Malaysia and Singapore as flight are always busy
even more interesting would be to know the number or passengers actually flying these routes.... lazy video
Those figures won't be made available for several months yet. - JB
Love the channel but will only subscribe when you stop saying “sevveny” instead of seventy 😢
He’s a Brit.
My Grandma said strawbries and bluebries her whole life.
Nobody imagined JED-CAI would be the busiest. Have you?.