{"id":307660,"date":"2019-03-28T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=307660"},"modified":"2019-03-28T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:56:08","slug":"the-busiest-flight-routes-in-the-world-includes-this-one-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/307660\/the-busiest-flight-routes-in-the-world-includes-this-one-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The busiest flight routes in the world includes this one in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airline analytics company OAG has released its report on the world&#8217;s busiest flight routes in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The report is based on data and analysis of the world&#8217;s flights for the period March 2018-February 2019 &#8211; discounting carriers operating less than 500 scheduled flights per year and factoring in on-time performance (OTP).<\/p>\n<p>It found that 15 of the top 20 busiest international routes are in Asia Pacific, with a cluster around the Asian hub airports of Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>The busiest international route in the world is Kuala Lumpur &#8211; Singapore with over 30,000 flights in the course of a year, operated by eight carriers with an average of 82 flights per day<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/International-routes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-307666 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/International-routes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/International-routes.png 581w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/International-routes-267x300.png 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Domestic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The busiest domestic route in the world, by a large margin, operates between Jeju and Seoul Gimpo.<\/p>\n<p>With nearly 80,000 annual flights, this high-frequency service is operated by seven carriers who between them provide over 200 daily services.<\/p>\n<p>The second busiest domestic route is Melbourne &#8211; Sydney in Australia with around 148 flights each day.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa also features on the list with the Cape Town &#8211; Johannesburg flight named as the eleventh busiest on the list.<\/p>\n<p>The route has over 33,708 annual flights and is operated by six carriers.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Domestic-routes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-307668 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Domestic-routes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Domestic-routes.png 585w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Domestic-routes-267x300.png 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Busiest in Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Africa also features prominently on the list of the busiest domestic flights in Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Cape Town &#8211; Johannesburg flight, Durban &#8211; Johannesburg was named as the third busiest route in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The route sees 22,357 flights a year operated by five carriers.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Durban.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-307680 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Durban.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Durban.png 585w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Durban-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/306774\/new-baggage-rules-at-or-tambo-international-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New baggage rules at OR Tambo International \u2013 here\u2019s what you need to know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline analytics company OAG has released its report on the world&#8217;s busiest flight routes in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":282908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26,13183],"class_list":["post-307660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline","tag-oag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307660"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307682,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307660\/revisions\/307682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}