2023 has been a 12 months of journey rebound—particularly for the Asia-Pacific area—after a yearslong decline in flights as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
The one-hour journey between Kuala Lumpur Worldwide Airport in Malaysia and Singapore’s Changi Airport proved to be the busiest worldwide route of 2023, in line with new evaluation by world journey information supplier OAG.
In its annual roundup launched Wednesday, OAG, which measures the variety of scheduled airline seats between locations every month, discovered that the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore route had 4.9 million scheduled seats this 12 months, a 50% improve from 2022.
Seven of the world’s high 10 busiest worldwide routes and 9 of the highest 10 busiest home routes have been within the Asia-Pacific area, which lagged behind Europe and the U.S. in opening up within the wake of the pandemic. Final 12 months, the one worldwide route within the Asia-Pacific area to interrupt into the highest 10 was between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, which ranked fifth.
The one Western flight within the high 10 busiest worldwide routes of 2023 was between New York’s John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport and London’s Heathrow Airport.
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No U.S. flights broke into the listing of busiest home routes for the 12 months, which have been all inside the Asia-Pacific or Center East areas. However Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Worldwide Airport remained the busiest airport globally, in line with OAG, with 61 million seats in airline capability for 2023. The Georgia airport was beforehand OAG’s busiest airport in 2019 and 2022.
Within the U.S., the busiest home route of 2023 was between Honolulu and Kahului, with 3.6 million scheduled airline seats traversing throughout the Hawaiian cities. It was intently adopted by the Atlanta-Orlando and Los Angeles-Las Vegas routes, which every had about 3.5 million scheduled airline seats flown forwards and backwards between them.