World's Top 10 Commercial Airline Routes by Revenue, 2017-2018

[dimondpark]

London calling...lol

Remember that many if not all of these routes are served my multiple airlines', these are just the top 10 by revenue.


https://thepointsguy.com/news/top-re...rplane-routes/

[tayser]

Melbourne-Sydney schedule. Note who the top carrier is.



Qantas owns Jetstar, Virgin Australia owns Tigerair.

[Innsertnamehere]

I'm amazed LAX-JFK isn't a busier route. I guess it's because it's split between multiple carriers fairly evenly, and even multiple airports in NYC? I imagine that would be the busiest air route between two cities globally. Next maybe NYC-London.

[pdxtex]

skipping to the bottom of the thread, guessing ill say nyc to london annnnnd, i dunno, hong kong to sydney.

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

I'm amazed LAX-JFK isn't a busier route. I guess it's because it's split between multiple carriers fairly evenly, and even multiple airports in NYC? I imagine that would be the busiest air route between two cities globally. Next maybe NYC-London.

NYC-West Coast is pretty evenly split between the NYC airports, so it isn't shocking.

But you do see two NYC-West Coast trips among the Top 10: JFK-LAX and EWR-SFO.

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by Crawford

NYC-West Coast is pretty evenly split between the NYC airports, so it isn't shocking.

But you do see two NYC-West Coast trips among the Top 10: JFK-LAX and EWR-SFO.

Is EWR the name for all the LA area airports? Burbank/LAX/OC to SF/Oakland/SJ have to be among the busiest routes. Or is EWR Newark?

Also surprised NYC-Miami and NYC-Chicago aren't on list. Maybe because the NYC market is spit between JFK/La Guardia/Newark?

[JMKeynes]

EWR is Newark.

[F1 Tommy]

Originally Posted by CaliNative

Is EWR the name for all the LA area airports? Burbank/LAX/OC to SF/Oakland/SJ have to be among the busiest routes. Or is EWR Newark?

Also surprised NYC-Miami and NYC-Chicago aren't on list. Maybe because the NYC market is spit between JFK/La Guardia/Newark?

I believe this is revenue dollars, not busiest passenger routes, although several are both. The more expensive to fly on routes generate more revenue.

Several of these big international routes may drop due to more direct service coming on line to smaller cities. Also not sure how Brexit will effect UK routes in the future. I like to call the 787, A350 and new 777 hub busters. Those aircraft will help kill both the A380 and 747 8I in the long run.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

I'm amazed LAX-JFK isn't a busier route. I guess it's because it's split between multiple carriers fairly evenly, and even multiple airports in NYC? I imagine that would be the busiest air route between two cities globally. Next maybe NYC-London.

Yes, LAX-JFK is the second busiest route from LAX. Only second to LAX-SFO.

[Pedestrian]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

I'm amazed LAX-JFK isn't a busier route. I guess it's because it's split between multiple carriers fairly evenly, and even multiple airports in NYC? I imagine that would be the busiest air route between two cities globally. Next maybe NYC-London.

Most US cities have multiple airports. I'm not as familiar with LA although I know there's John Wayne Airport in Orange County, but in the SF Bay Area a lot of flights go to Oakland and some to San Jose. The gate fees must be lower at Oakland because a lot of the low cost fares go there--and Oakland is as convenient to downtown SF as SFO is by BART. In fact, it seems the bargain carriers often use these secondary airports.

[mousquet]

Paris has 2+1 international airports now.

Roissy CDG. That's where you're likely to touch down when you come from the Americas (except for French Guiana, Martinique or Guadeloupe), Australia, Asia and so on.
It's the major world class airport here, and I'm sure a bunch of you guys had to go through it already.

Orly. Some European destinations + French overseas regions, such as those mentioned above.

And the latest, "Beauvais–Tillé Airport", mostly Euro + North African destinations, I believe.
Remote and meant for low-cost flights. It's cheaper, thus interesting to travel from there, but it's so annoying to get to it that I've never seen the new airport yet. In fact, I simply never went to Beauvais, as far as I go.
But it's surely something to increase competition locally, then airline tickets are cheaper and cheaper.
That's how Air France (when those laughable morons are not on strike) set up a low-cost subsidiary of theirs, 'Joon'. That's actually a South Korean female first name, but whatever.

[emathias]

Originally Posted by mousquet

...
That's how Air France (when those laughable morons are not on strike) set up a low-cost subsidiary of theirs, 'Joon'. That's actually a South Korean female first name, but whatever.

It's primarily a family name in Korea, and when it's used as a given name, it can be both male or female. I have a good friend who is a male Korean Joon. It's also a really old name, so it's not "South Korean," it's just Korean.

[dimondpark]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Most US cities have multiple airports. I'm not as familiar with LA although I know there's John Wayne Airport in Orange County, but in the SF Bay Area a lot of flights go to Oakland and some to San Jose. The gate fees must be lower at Oakland because a lot of the low cost fares go there--and Oakland is as convenient to downtown SF as SFO is by BART. In fact, it seems the bargain carriers often use these secondary airports.

Yeah, Southwest Airlines by itself has about 90 nonstops from the Bay Area to the LA Area. Aside from SWA, United, American, Delta, JetBlue, Alaska, Spirit and JetSuiteX all serve this corrodor.

[xzmattzx]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Most US cities have multiple airports. I'm not as familiar with LA although I know there's John Wayne Airport in Orange County, but in the SF Bay Area a lot of flights go to Oakland and some to San Jose. The gate fees must be lower at Oakland because a lot of the low cost fares go there--and Oakland is as convenient to downtown SF as SFO is by BART. In fact, it seems the bargain carriers often use these secondary airports.

It seems that way because it is. It's cheaper to operate out of secondary airports. That's why Southwest uses Midway instead of O'Hare; Love Field instead of Dallas/Fort Worth; Fort Lauderdale instead of Miami; BWI mainly over Dulles and Reagan; began in the Boston area in Providence and Manchester; etc.

[Eightball]

For the ATL airport boosting I'm subject to, surprised they don't have a spot on here

[montréaliste]

Originally Posted by Eightball

For the ATL airport boosting I'm subject to, surprised they don't have a spot on here

A huge number of flights but I guess the bulk would be internal connector flights.

[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by Eightball

For the ATL airport boosting I'm subject to, surprised they don't have a spot on here

These are not all necessarily the highest volume routes, but the highest revenue generating. So distance as well as other factors play a role as well

[JMKeynes]

This isn’t surprising since NY and London are the most important financial centers, and there is, therefore, a lot of air traffic between them.

[Nouvellecosse]

Airport splitting is probably why Toronto YYZ - Montreal YUL isn't busier since there is probably a decent chunk of the traffic going through Toronto YTZ, while YTZ cannot handle longer range planes that can reach YVR.

[Innsertnamehere]

Yea i would be interested to see the busiest city pairs in terms of metro-metro region flights. I imagine a lot of local connections would win due to the smaller airplane sizes and higher demand.. I.e. NYC-Washington, LA-SF, Toronto-Montreal, London-Paris, Sydney-Melbourne, etc.