Exactly! And if it wasn't for that shithole of Malaysia government the HSL would have already been completed. Tons of money had been spent design and engineering for that line, as well as architectural competitions. Alas the actual construction never commenced
@@skylineXpert whaat? You think Singapore doesn't have enough space to accommodate a train station? Singapore is small, but not that much small! 😂🤣🤣 There's plenty of space to build a station in Singapore, but most importantly, according to the original project the station was to be built underground
Now that the governments of Singapore and Malaysia may soon finalize the deal for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail line, the SIN-KUL flights may dramatically drop once that line opens. We're talking under 2 hours one-way on such a rail trip.
I would like to see this list again, but done by city pairs. I would like to see how that changes up the list, JFK-LHR and EWR-LGW basically being the same thing.
I’ve been on the Emirates 5th freedom BKK-HKG flight during lockdown in 2021. There were only 10 passengers and A380 was downgraded to a 777. Still spacious enough and I could tell the crew enjoyed it a lot.
8:53 I have flown between KUL and SIN (ranked #4 in this video) and agree with everyone here that a decent rail connection between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore is long overdue.
The Cairo-Jeddah route is a surprise. Recently EgyptAir launched a non-stop Jakarta service which aims to take a chunk of the profitable Umrah tour traffic by using Cairo as a stopover point where travelers can also visit Egypt on the side of the main mini pilgrimage event under the tour packages.
lol miami has always been full of russian spies anyway, going back to the 90s, the government/middle class would literally holiday in miami just to give birth, so the kids would be americans....who are then top quality spies lol
Any context behind the large numbers? I guess it's where Taiwanese come to do most their business with China? And Hong Kong tourists like Taiwan for the bigger countryside/climate etc? Or is there more to it?
@@d.b.cooper1 Four Reasons, 1. Due to some political issue in some ten years ago, Taiwan has had very few international flights to other Countries (As you might remember something like British Asia Airways, KLM Asia or Japan Asia Alrlines etc. as of those issues), making Hong Kong (as a territory of United Kingdom at that time) a transfer point for the people in taiwan to other countries, even you might see someone flying to Naha from Taipei via Hong Kong in the good old days (which will make some 5 times longer then if there was a direct route). As an example, number of passenger flights between India and Taiwan is exactly 0 even in now, making the traffic between these two countries is mainly using the Cathay Pacific. 2. For a long period, direct operation of flight from Taiwan to China was prohibited, making the businessmen in Taiwan must use Hong Kong as the transfer point to China for Business (but might be using Tokyo at that time if they go to Northern China... It is another long story that why they don't use Seoul but it will be too long and out of context). Even direct flights is allowed now but the quota is far from the demand of Taiwan-China traffic. 3. Taiwan and Hong Kong are both the business and vancation hot spot of the opposite countries, making a high number of business and leisure traffic. To make things "higher" is you can disembark at Hong Kong and transfer to buses/ferries/trains for the business and leisure spot at South China, and will even easier to take the direct flight to Shenzhen or Gwangzhou, which their airport is far from the city centre. 4. Hong Kong, which have only one passenger airport, can only fly to Taoyuen(TPE), but not the Sungshan(TSA), where Japan , Korea and China can fly to, making the traffic is concentrated to one spot.
What a surprise, I expected America to Europe and Europe to Asia flights to fill the list, but it's almost only Asia to Asia! I was one of the passengers on Incheon - Kansai last year, and the plane was half empty, I couldn't imagine it was such a busy route.
Sometimes rich takes train or ship, poor has to take LCC flight. I liked to take train+ferry+train, from Tokyo to Seoul, it’ costed 2 to 3 times of flying. Unlike flying the fare of boat is flat, so in busy season, it maybe wiser and more relaxing.
Thank you Matthew and SF team. Interesting video 👌 As you stated, would be more interesting to see this as paired cities rather than paired airports. But still an interesting watch .
Not a surprise seeing Singapore on this list as they have the world’s busiest airport. What’s more surprising is seeing Suvarnabhumi airport BKK (twice) in this list despite Bangkok having another airport DMK (Don Mueang) serving also international and low-cost flights.
Hajj, yes. And it's a popular transit spot since Saudia offers very competitive prices. I flew from PKX to LHR via JED and the ticket was dirt cheap. Terrible service tho. KSA is trying hard to compete against Qatar and the UAE.
I flew between Hong Kong (HKG) and Taipei (TPE) during summer 2024, with EVA Air (BR) on the outbound flight and STARLUX (JX) on the inbound flight. That was my first time onboard EVA Air, the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner (781), and the Airbus A330-900neo (339).
I’m always amazed at the traffic to and from metro Manhattan and to and from metro London. I’ve been to both multiple times and I even worked in the past for what is now part of now Morgan Stanley so I spent plenty of time (week/months) in the 1980s in Manhattan. Both Manhattan and London are socialist, liberal hellholes. I have made a vow and I intend to keep it to never set my foot anywhere in the state of New York ever again except to change planes on an international flight at JFK and I will not leave the terminal. That’s part of our US federal system. The states are different and about a third of the states in the United States have become complete equivalents of UK/EU hell holes and I don’t want to ever be in any of them again (other than perhaps some exceptions for southern Europe, and eastern Europe). I’ve even had clients living in London as resident-nondoms tell they can’t stand the place anymore despite the fact that (at least until the liberal party, the idiot Starmer’s party took control) they were not required to pay any income taxes of any consequence there. I’ve even helped some moved other jurisdictions that were more wealth, friendly. There’s a reason for that. They’re too many Muslims in England and they’re too many communists in New York. So you won’t have to worry about me adding to the passenger count of anyone going from NYC to LON or vice versa.
After Covid TPE became a big layover hub for flights into Asia, daily service from JFK with both Eva and China air (6 days per week) and once you are in TPE you can pretty much to nonstop to 85 places in Asia
Which explains why Taoyuan Airport is expanding and the airside at the airport has been extensively rebuilt with more lounges and restaurants. I was just at that airport back in November 2024 and noticed those changes.
From sfo, it’s no.1. It took over Hong Kong so hard, I don’t think Hong Kong will ever be as big again. TPE is honestly crazy there are 7 daily flights from sfo.
A bit surprising to see Ethiopia having such a large footprint in Asia lol. And it's a bit ironic to see HKG-TPE as the top "international route" since China (both the PRC and the ROC-- even more ironically) claims both are their territories.
I flown Jakarta to Singapore and vv twice in my life with Indonesia Lion Air, Singapore's and Indonesia's backrupt airline, Tigerair Singapore and Mandala Tigerair
10. JFK New York - LHR London 9. BKK Suvarnabhumi Bangkok Thailand - SIN Singapore Changi 8. CGK Jakarta Soekarno-Natta Indonesia - SIN Singapore Changi 7. BKK Suvarnabhumi Bangkok Thailand - HKG Hong Kong International 6. DXB Dubai International - RUH Riyadh King Khaled International Saudi Arabia 5. ICN Seoul Incheon South Korea - KIX Osaka Kansai Japan 4. KUL Kuala Lumpur International Malaysia - SIN Singapore Changi 3. ICN Seoul Incheon - NRT Tokyo Narita Japan 2. CAI Cairo Egypt - JED Jeddah King Abdul Aziz international Saudi Arabia 1. HKG Hong Kong International - TPE Taipei Taoyuan Taiwan
@ Yeah but that's nothing for Emirates, still not top 20. Heck they fly 3X daily A380s into Manchester, whilst also doing 6 daily A380s from London-Dubai...whilst also flying from other smaller airports daily on a 777A380 like Bimringham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff etc. Then throw in USA, Europe & Asia...Russia/Moscow doesn't even come close. Unless you're here to have a political discussion...in which case this ain't the place bud :)
This list is clearly inaccurate, Cathay Emirates Singapore and Thai airways mostly operate large body aircrafts, it's not like they have the choice to select smaller aircrafts for shorter routes, I doubt all these flights are full
Then you'd be surprised, cuz HKG-TPE is mostly full, in Asia, there's no such things as seasonal demands that appears in North America or Europe, the demand in Asia is quite stable thru out the year. Cathay constantly deploys it's 438 seats 777-300 on HKG-TPE cuz there is that much demand
With all due respect your point doesnt really stand as cathay owns narrow bodies but still flies 777 to TPE, and if there is over supply why would there be so many flights? Not to mention they charge an absolute premium on this route
Repeat "Air Seoul" again and again as fast as you can. Not a great name for an airline. Zipair... well that's unfortunate for an Asian airline... What's next? someone going to start Slope Air?
Many of these are short-haul. A very big disappointment give the name of the channel. For me a flight of 500 nautical miles would not get me out of the country.
Singapore to Kuala Lampur at just 161 nautical miles but 5 million passengers a year really needs a high speed rail service
Exactly! And if it wasn't for that shithole of Malaysia government the HSL would have already been completed. Tons of money had been spent design and engineering for that line, as well as architectural competitions. Alas the actual construction never commenced
I wonder if Malaysia petrol based economy does not want Bullet Trains since it would be more efficient.
Even slow 200km/h should be fast enough. So it should be even not so expensive.
Where can you build the station In Singapore & you do realise singapore Is an Island state?
Yet It will be way busy If build...
@@skylineXpert whaat? You think Singapore doesn't have enough space to accommodate a train station? Singapore is small, but not that much small! 😂🤣🤣
There's plenty of space to build a station in Singapore, but most importantly, according to the original project the station was to be built underground
Not surprised to see Singapore on here 3 times. It would be awesome to see a breakdown of travellers to top 10 destinations
Now that the governments of Singapore and Malaysia may soon finalize the deal for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail line, the SIN-KUL flights may dramatically drop once that line opens. We're talking under 2 hours one-way on such a rail trip.
In Hong Kong we say: the frequency of plane to Taipei is more frequent than the bus back home from airport.😂
its like 過海小巴 ngl
I would like to see this list again, but done by city pairs. I would like to see how that changes up the list, JFK-LHR and EWR-LGW basically being the same thing.
agreed
Idea: I'd love to see a breakdown of JED's flights during the Hajj season.
On October this year, i've flown HKG-TPE , round trip, EVA AIR . Superb service !
I’ve been on the Emirates 5th freedom BKK-HKG flight during lockdown in 2021. There were only 10 passengers and A380 was downgraded to a 777. Still spacious enough and I could tell the crew enjoyed it a lot.
8:53 I have flown between KUL and SIN (ranked #4 in this video) and agree with everyone here that a decent rail connection between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore is long overdue.
Interesting video!
one list i would love to see is Busiest route thats only served by one carrier
SVO-BKK
Singapore seems to feature heavily. Interesting as I am visiting Hong Kong , Singapore, Taipei, Bangkok and others in the next few weeks.
The Cairo-Jeddah route is a surprise. Recently EgyptAir launched a non-stop Jakarta service which aims to take a chunk of the profitable Umrah tour traffic by using Cairo as a stopover point where travelers can also visit Egypt on the side of the main mini pilgrimage event under the tour packages.
The cities pairs, not airports, would be more fair indeed (Seoul-Tokio example)
Moscow - Mar-a-lago
In the first Trump term, Presidential use of PBI caused more than a few traffic jams in my area.
@@markiangooley cringe
lol miami has always been full of russian spies anyway, going back to the 90s, the government/middle class would literally holiday in miami just to give birth, so the kids would be americans....who are then top quality spies lol
You have TDS? Go touch some grass
Impressive and for the busiest routes in East Asia they'll be done with a mix of wide and narrow body planes like VHHH🇭🇰 to RCTP🇹🇼.
The yearly seat count of the HKG-TPE route can almost move the entire population of Hong Kong!
Any context behind the large numbers? I guess it's where Taiwanese come to do most their business with China? And Hong Kong tourists like Taiwan for the bigger countryside/climate etc? Or is there more to it?
@@d.b.cooper1Hong Kong and Taiwan, apart from politics, are quite closely related. Cathay calls Taipei its second home also
@@d.b.cooper1Hong Kong is Taiwan’s 2nd largest trading partner (1st is China)
@@d.b.cooper1
Four Reasons,
1. Due to some political issue in some ten years ago, Taiwan has had very few international flights to other Countries (As you might remember something like British Asia Airways, KLM Asia or Japan Asia Alrlines etc. as of those issues), making Hong Kong (as a territory of United Kingdom at that time) a transfer point for the people in taiwan to other countries, even you might see someone flying to Naha from Taipei via Hong Kong in the good old days (which will make some 5 times longer then if there was a direct route). As an example, number of passenger flights between India and Taiwan is exactly 0 even in now, making the traffic between these two countries is mainly using the Cathay Pacific.
2. For a long period, direct operation of flight from Taiwan to China was prohibited, making the businessmen in Taiwan must use Hong Kong as the transfer point to China for Business (but might be using Tokyo at that time if they go to Northern China... It is another long story that why they don't use Seoul but it will be too long and out of context). Even direct flights is allowed now but the quota is far from the demand of Taiwan-China traffic.
3. Taiwan and Hong Kong are both the business and vancation hot spot of the opposite countries, making a high number of business and leisure traffic. To make things "higher" is you can disembark at Hong Kong and transfer to buses/ferries/trains for the business and leisure spot at South China, and will even easier to take the direct flight to Shenzhen or Gwangzhou, which their airport is far from the city centre.
4. Hong Kong, which have only one passenger airport, can only fly to Taoyuen(TPE), but not the Sungshan(TSA), where Japan , Korea and China can fly to, making the traffic is concentrated to one spot.
I may be doing the Hong Kong Bangkok route this summer, hopefully on Cathay.
What a surprise, I expected America to Europe and Europe to Asia flights to fill the list, but it's almost only Asia to Asia! I was one of the passengers on Incheon - Kansai last year, and the plane was half empty, I couldn't imagine it was such a busy route.
No. 5 actually. Flew ICN>KIX when returning home to Canada, surprisingly didn't seem like it was a super busy route.
I’m very curious what the busiest routes for cargo is. Specifically lbs/kgs flown between cities. Is there a metric on that?
Sometimes rich takes train or ship, poor has to take LCC flight. I liked to take train+ferry+train, from Tokyo to Seoul, it’ costed 2 to 3 times of flying. Unlike flying the fare of boat is flat, so in busy season, it maybe wiser and more relaxing.
BKK-HKG also has Ethiopian doing fifth freedom flight and Bangkok Airways
Changi is an amazing airport. Been there twice from California. Recommend anyone who has the chance to visit it.
I think it would be fun to see country pairs, which countries have the most amount of seats connecting all airports in either country to each other 💯
It’s UK and Spain
Thank you Matthew and SF team.
Interesting video 👌
As you stated, would be more interesting to see this as paired cities rather than paired airports.
But still an interesting watch .
Not a surprise seeing Singapore on this list as they have the world’s busiest airport.
What’s more surprising is seeing Suvarnabhumi airport BKK (twice) in this list despite Bangkok having another airport DMK (Don Mueang) serving also international and low-cost flights.
Cairo - Jeddah? Wow, that was unexpected! Can anyone give me a reason as to why so many people from Cairo would want to go to Jeddah? Is it for Hajj?
Hajj, yes. And it's a popular transit spot since Saudia offers very competitive prices. I flew from PKX to LHR via JED and the ticket was dirt cheap. Terrible service tho. KSA is trying hard to compete against Qatar and the UAE.
I flew between Hong Kong (HKG) and Taipei (TPE) during summer 2024, with EVA Air (BR) on the outbound flight and STARLUX (JX) on the inbound flight. That was my first time onboard EVA Air, the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner (781), and the Airbus A330-900neo (339).
A lot of the CX HKG-TPE flights continue on to Korea and Japan.
Garuda Indonesia video in 02:56 is irrelevant. Garuda never used that livery anymore. You need to updating that
Air traffic is high in the populous Asian region.
I'd be curious which routes are the busiest per passenger mile.
I’d say JFK-LHR
SFO-TPE
LAX-LHR
@@SFAvgeekshorter flights would be busier per passenger mile, not long haul
@@wlp7899 oops I thought you meant “asks”.
Yup, Taiwan and Hong Kong are separate countries.
Those flying to singapore must be because of Taylor Swift alone oh my god her impact 🤣 jk
Japan Korea and Malaysia Singapore showing to be robust air travel
I have flown #1 Taipei to Hong Kong by Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 😀
What does it mean "freedom service"? I have never heard about that before.
DXB has only only one mention. I was expecting more.
how can you mention emirates 5th freedom in bkk-hkg but forget to mention Cathay Pacific’s 5th freedom flights between bkk-sin
What about busiest trans-oceanic flights or flights greater than 4,000nm?
I hope that Trump can help these fifth tier countries in future. America needs to remind the world why we're the best! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🦅🦅
I know Ethiopian airlines fly from Ethiopia to japan and stop and korea. Same when flying back. So i wont really say they offer seats to korea-japan
I’m always amazed at the traffic to and from metro Manhattan and to and from metro London. I’ve been to both multiple times and I even worked in the past for what is now part of now Morgan Stanley so I spent plenty of time (week/months) in the 1980s in Manhattan. Both Manhattan and London are socialist, liberal hellholes. I have made a vow and I intend to keep it to never set my foot anywhere in the state of New York ever again except to change planes on an international flight at JFK and I will not leave the terminal. That’s part of our US federal system. The states are different and about a third of the states in the United States have become complete equivalents of UK/EU hell holes and I don’t want to ever be in any of them again (other than perhaps some exceptions for southern Europe, and eastern Europe). I’ve even had clients living in London as resident-nondoms tell they can’t stand the place anymore despite the fact that (at least until the liberal party, the idiot Starmer’s party took control) they were not required to pay any income taxes of any consequence there. I’ve even helped some moved other jurisdictions that were more wealth, friendly. There’s a reason for that. They’re too many Muslims in England and they’re too many communists in New York. So you won’t have to worry about me adding to the passenger count of anyone going from NYC to LON or vice versa.
I hope that one day, all aviation enthusiasts and the aviation content creators would learn how to pronounce Suvarnabhumi correctly. It’s Suwanapoom.
After Covid TPE became a big layover hub for flights into Asia, daily service from JFK with both Eva and China air (6 days per week) and once you are in TPE you can pretty much to nonstop to 85 places in Asia
Which explains why Taoyuan Airport is expanding and the airside at the airport has been extensively rebuilt with more lounges and restaurants. I was just at that airport back in November 2024 and noticed those changes.
From sfo, it’s no.1. It took over Hong Kong so hard, I don’t think Hong Kong will ever be as big again. TPE is honestly crazy there are 7 daily flights from sfo.
china would call number 1 a domestic route
Should be seats x miles to figure out the real busiest routes
A bit surprising to see Ethiopia having such a large footprint in Asia lol.
And it's a bit ironic to see HKG-TPE as the top "international route" since China (both the PRC and the ROC-- even more ironically) claims both are their territories.
Well, ROC claims PRC is their territory and visa versa :)
That stat is IMHO false-labelled. Most busiest route but per definition most seats offered. Well, who cares when this seats are empty.
I flown Jakarta to Singapore and vv twice in my life with Indonesia Lion Air, Singapore's and Indonesia's backrupt airline, Tigerair Singapore and Mandala Tigerair
Asians travelling, Europeans staying at home 😆
They take the train
1. Train
2. Flight within Schengen is considered domestic
Please get the Suvarnabhumi pronunciation right. You’re not even trying.
10. JFK New York - LHR London
9. BKK Suvarnabhumi Bangkok Thailand - SIN Singapore Changi
8. CGK Jakarta Soekarno-Natta Indonesia - SIN Singapore Changi
7. BKK Suvarnabhumi Bangkok Thailand - HKG Hong Kong International
6. DXB Dubai International - RUH Riyadh King Khaled International Saudi Arabia
5. ICN Seoul Incheon South Korea - KIX Osaka Kansai Japan
4. KUL Kuala Lumpur International Malaysia - SIN Singapore Changi
3. ICN Seoul Incheon - NRT Tokyo Narita Japan
2. CAI Cairo Egypt - JED Jeddah King Abdul Aziz international Saudi Arabia
1. HKG Hong Kong International - TPE Taipei Taoyuan Taiwan
Moscow - Dubai
Yes but it is spread trough out several airports.
It's not even a top 20 Emirates route tbh. Even for Aereoflot top int routes are Antalya, Istanbul, Armenia, Belarus, Krygzstan, Azerbaijan.
@@d.b.cooper1 Two A380s and one 777-300 daily.
@ Yeah but that's nothing for Emirates, still not top 20. Heck they fly 3X daily A380s into Manchester, whilst also doing 6 daily A380s from London-Dubai...whilst also flying from other smaller airports daily on a 777A380 like Bimringham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff etc. Then throw in USA, Europe & Asia...Russia/Moscow doesn't even come close. Unless you're here to have a political discussion...in which case this ain't the place bud :)
Oh boy...
This list is clearly inaccurate, Cathay Emirates Singapore and Thai airways mostly operate large body aircrafts, it's not like they have the choice to select smaller aircrafts for shorter routes, I doubt all these flights are full
Then you'd be surprised, cuz HKG-TPE is mostly full, in Asia, there's no such things as seasonal demands that appears in North America or Europe, the demand in Asia is quite stable thru out the year. Cathay constantly deploys it's 438 seats 777-300 on HKG-TPE cuz there is that much demand
@@isaaclao2380indeed!
With all due respect your point doesnt really stand as cathay owns narrow bodies but still flies 777 to TPE, and if there is over supply why would there be so many flights? Not to mention they charge an absolute premium on this route
they fly widebodies on these short routes because they WANT to, not they had to. The demand is that high.
There is a reason why Cathay and Singapore have so few narrow bodies and Emirates having none
First!
Repeat "Air Seoul" again and again as fast as you can. Not a great name for an airline. Zipair... well that's unfortunate for an Asian airline... What's next? someone going to start Slope Air?
Air Seoul don’t offer flights to English speaking countries.
Many of these are short-haul. A very big disappointment give the name of the channel.
For me a flight of 500 nautical miles would not get me out of the country.
Hong Kong and Taipei? That's a domestic route.
HKG - TPE is an international route not domestic
You still have to go through customs bc it's different government. Hong kong is SAR and Taipei is ROC
Lmao 😭
It feels like it. Lot of Hong Kong expats are now living in Taiwan.
Nope. And let's hope that it stays that way.
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#9 SIN-BKK
You didn’t include Cathay Pacific