Revealed: The USA's Top 5 Busiest Domestic Airline Routes

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@jbenson8877 Ай бұрын

There are a few changes in this. Here is the updated list from OAG October 2024: 1. LAX-SFO Seats 319,064 2. LAS-LAX Seats 303,394 3. ATL-MCO Seats 288,226 4.LGA-ORD Seats 283,592 5. JFK-LAX Seats 282,426 6. HNL-OGG Seats 281,910

@jeffy210 Ай бұрын

LAS-LAX is funny and probably where the airlines are fighting the high speed rail The Hawaii one was surprising, but makes sense given that you fly into the HNL, but spend time on the other island.

@a21npilot91 Ай бұрын

@jeffy210 , also if there will be high speed rail between LAX and SFO. Lack of connectivity between two biggest cities in the country's richest state really frustrated my little European brain.

@bobz3779 Ай бұрын

A lot of these routes are used for connecting flights. Especially Atlanta and Chicago.

@dmitripogosian5084 11 күн бұрын

Why and where to would you connect en mass from La Guardia via Chicago ?

@stuartaaron613 Ай бұрын

The flights between Atlanta and Orlando may be the result of passengers going to the resorts in Orlando (Disney and Universal) via the major hub in Atlanta.

@mirzaahmed6589 Ай бұрын

Yup

@cliffordbradford8910 Ай бұрын

exactly. Actually, Southwest also uses Orlando as a hub to go to at least Jamaica. I used to fly to Orlando a lot back before Southwest bought AirTran and both Delta and AirTran flew there on the hour every hour.

@nathanlembke9026 Ай бұрын

I flew on Deltas A350 from ATL-MCO short flight for the big A350 but I enjoyed the flight 🥰

@hrysivjt67 Ай бұрын

So in other words, these are the perfect markets to introduce high speed rail in the United States. Got it.

@thehoundGOT Ай бұрын

That's exactly what I was thinking (apart from Hawaii)

@mirzaahmed6589 Ай бұрын

No, they're not. Most of these are passengers connecting from further destinations, and no one will bother changing to a train station when they can just transfer planes at the airport.

@Gusearth Ай бұрын

@@mirzaahmed6589 airlines are not offering upwards of 200,000 seats all for connecting passengers. there are plenty of people for whom these cities are their origin and final destination. HSR would not completely eliminate these flights altogether, just allow the capacity to be cut down

@thehoundGOT Ай бұрын

@@mirzaahmed6589 I would love to see the data on this. Do you have a link you can share?

@TysonIke Ай бұрын

@@mirzaahmed6589quite a lot of them are. Especially the 2 from LA once you remember LAX is just one of 5 major airports in that region. Also the northeast needs rail too

@Inflight777 Ай бұрын

Good way to start the day🎉🎉

@wavecentral Ай бұрын

Hard to believe that with a population as large as the US, their busiest domestic route only had 300k seats per day. Meanwhile Sydney - Melbourne is over 800,000, with Qantas alone running something like 35 flights per day.

@rtbrtb_dutchy4183 Ай бұрын

800K? I doubt this is right. Or do they fly empty airplanes? The math just doesn’t work with Sydney having 43 million yearly passengers. That’s 117K a day.

@wavecentral Ай бұрын

@@rtbrtb_dutchy4183 Duh! I should have said per month, not per day. It's still a far busier route than any in this video though - 5th busiest by passenger numbers globally - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_flight_routes

@raisedahell5165 Ай бұрын

I am really curious about Canada's domestic numbers

@ilikebikes67 Ай бұрын

I’m willing to bet that Toronto-Montreal (YYZ-YUL) would have more monthly seats than a few of the US ones on this list

@managed9348 Ай бұрын

Do one for the Caribbean

@mijnordna Ай бұрын

I was trying to think of other geographic areas where this might apply besides NYC; LA has multiple airports as does San Francisco, can’t really think of any others…

@dasmellyyooper Ай бұрын

San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Washington DC, Phoenix, Orlando, Tampa, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale

@michaelangell4585 Ай бұрын

Chicago. Midway has lots of Southwest flights.

@mijnordna Ай бұрын

Yes. Turns out there are many!

@PakaBubi Ай бұрын

Just imagine if they would have high speed trains between LA and SF. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@OldMate35 Ай бұрын

Too soon man. Too soon 😂

@lorismantero6327 Ай бұрын

Same for Dallas-Houston/San Antonio, or Atlanta-Charlotte-Durham , around Chicago (Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit etc), Vancouver-Seattle-Portland etc etc. There are so many links in North America that could be easily done with high speed rail...

@Harmonikdiskorde Ай бұрын

LA to las Vegas, even

@ltdowney Ай бұрын

This sounds funny, but it is actually probably the airlines themselves that lobby politicians to keep CA high speed rail struggling… Often when you see a problem in America, it is not the people themselves that are “too dumb” to fix it, but a corrupt political situation… 😔

@UNIENM Ай бұрын

Coming Soon™

@dortyboy Ай бұрын

Wow! AA use to have a flight every hour from LGA-ORD

@freshpotatolikesaviation Ай бұрын

LGA-ORD is also operated by regional carriers, I took a flight between these 2 airports with the E175LR and took 2 and a half hours

@jerryconnors8663 Ай бұрын

These are available seats per schedule per city pair. I'd be curious what are the load factors per flight for each city pair. Percentage of each seat filled per flight. As an ex-airline guy, load factors mattered since there was only one fare per flight. Each passenger paid the same. This was back in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Then the computers changed all that. Now it's profitability for each flight scheduled.

@dmitripogosian5084 11 күн бұрын

Whenever I fly in Canada and US, planes are almost always near full. Marked difference from the 90-s

@gja5468 Ай бұрын

I'm lost. How is the longest flight by distance LaGuardia-O'Hare instead of JFK-LAX?

@TravelingSteven Ай бұрын

Interesting that a high-speed train is built between LAX-LAS, so it might affect that #1 position.

@mariachrzski18 Ай бұрын

I'd like to see this type video but with Canada

@rtbrtb_dutchy4183 Ай бұрын

My home base is Las Vegas. We don’t only have flights between LAs Vegas and LAX, but also to Burbank, Van Nuys, John Wayne/Orange county, Ontario and Long Beach. We have the so called “stripper flights”. Strippers fly in for the weekend and fly back to the LA area on Sunday and Monday.

@fbiisasshoe7453 Ай бұрын

Long haul, what are the most connected cargo flight city pairs around the world and domestically?

@caleblaw3497 Ай бұрын

I guess LAX-LAS are mostly connecting flights. The driving time between these 2 cities are just 4-5 hours depending on where in LA you are going to. I'd just drive and avoid all the troubles of going to LAX

@dmitripogosian5084 11 күн бұрын

That would be fairly one way. There is no point to connect in LAS from LAX, isn't it ?

@FrequencyORD Ай бұрын

you’d think there’s more flights to JFK from ORD, but there aren’t that many at all.

@Heavenlydaz Ай бұрын

Los Angleeeez?

@Sacto1654 Ай бұрын

It'll be interesting to see how this changes once the Brightline West high-speed train route from San Bernardino to Las Vegas opens by the late 2020's. I do think Atlanta to Orlando could eventually be covered by a high-speed train from between Atlanta and Orlando with immediate stops in Savannah, GA and Jacksonville, FL.

@NarutoHarryPotter Ай бұрын

Wait, “Kahului” is being pronounced without the “h”? Or that’s just how Simple Flying made it sound?

@davidmontville4885 Ай бұрын

What is the difference between 'Top 5 Busiest' and simply '5 Busiest/' Top is so misused.

@lanbaode Ай бұрын

With these short city/airport pairs flying most frequently, and with growing ecological awareness of the jets’ destructive environmental footprints, it’s high time these be replaced and served with less destructive yet still equally efficient and convenient bullet trains.

@mattguey-lee4845 Ай бұрын

I was a little surprised jfk-lax didn’t make the cut. It’s definitely the busiest domestic route out of jfk. I also was wondering about dca-bow; there’s like 3 flights an hour albeit on smaller planes.

@FameyFamous Ай бұрын

Planes are best for long distances. I hope many of these short flights can be phased out eventually. Is there a ferry service in Hawaii? LA to SF and LA to LV will have high-speed train service in the next few years. Seems like ATL to MCO should also have good rail service.

@turbofanlover Ай бұрын

Not sure why anyone would want to take a ferry between the Hawaiian islands when they can fly.

@spades9048 Ай бұрын

Why take a 20 minute flight leaving every 30 minutes when you can take a 3-4 hour ferry?

@FameyFamous Ай бұрын

@@spades9048 there's no such thing as a 20 minute commercial flight. How much time do you need for security and boarding before that 20 minutes? How long does it take to get from popular destinations to the airports and how does that compare to the ground transmission to the ferry terminals? But also, why does it take so long for a modern ferry to cover that distance?

@spades9048 Ай бұрын

@@FameyFamous How much time do you show up before you board a ferry? TSA Precheck took less than 15 minutes on my last trip at Kahului, Honolulu and Lihue. It’s 75 nautical miles between Maui and Oahu. A ferry is going to do what - 20 knots? Why does it take a modern ferry so month? Because that’s what it takes when you’re moving something as large as a ship across water.

@spades9048 Ай бұрын

@@FameyFamous For all of the US mainland flights - I have personally flown ATL-MCO dozens of times. But I’m not fooling myself by thinking that flight is mostly local O&D like me. If I’m going from Indianapolis to Orlando via Atlanta then I’m not getting to Atlanta to then wait on a train. You’re already through security - you’re just going to wait for the next flight that takes 1 hour and Delta leaves every hour.

@MarceloTrindade1 Ай бұрын

It's a good amount of data. Thank you. On the other hand, I think it wouldn't be so difficult for you to use some math and give us a correct picture considering the geographic areas...

@1997nick Ай бұрын

What?

@MarceloTrindade1 Ай бұрын

@@1997nick If you watch the video, you'll understand what I'm talking about.

@1997nick Ай бұрын

@@MarceloTrindade1 I did; if it's "not so difficult" why not do it yourself and share the numbers here in the comments? I don't feel that it's glaring that they're missing.

@MarceloTrindade1 Ай бұрын

@@1997nick Because he didn't explicit all the neccessary data to allow the calculations for other airport pairs in the same geographic area. If you have these numbers I'll be glad to help.

@sjvillar2796 Ай бұрын

ooohhh first

@history_leisure Ай бұрын

Top 2 should be high speed rail routes. Atlanta is a major hub and MCO is a major tourist destination so its valid that some foreign destinations might only via ATL only. SFO and LAX are both Pacific gateways so both should have most of the same destinations and CAHSR rail will use the existing 4th/King and Sales Force TC in San Francisco and LA's Union Station and Anaheim's main station at the other end. The launch of Dreamstar in 2025 probably won't move the needle much, but would be interesting to look at mode share change on travel from the Bay Area to LA (even if CAHSR is only operational in the central valley)

@Sacto1654 Ай бұрын

See my post about a possible Atlanta to Orlando route.

@mirzaahmed6589 Ай бұрын

Most people are flying Delta and changing planes at ATL. Absolutely no one will want to trek to a downtown train station to complete the journey to Orlando, especially if they have checked bags.

@simondahl5437 Ай бұрын

@@mirzaahmed6589. Evidently you have never seen high speed rail. Many airports in Europe have a high speed rail station integrated with the airport. And you then don’t have to get downtown in your destination city.

@rawmango1321 Ай бұрын

Next india please

@hanj31 Ай бұрын

don't forget Burbank in Los angeles area too especially for LAX to LAS jet blue has a daily service from burbank to jfk too

@pauldavis1943 Ай бұрын

This data makes the case for high speed rail since the routes are so short and mostly over land

@jorge8596 Ай бұрын

I had no idea LA and Vegas were so close together, I thought they were about twice as far apart as they actually are

@mel816 Ай бұрын

That's also why a new high speed line connecting Los Angeles to Las Vegas is currently being built.

@frankiexv4533 Ай бұрын

Amazing to think some of these routes are so short you could drive a couple hours. Or a train.

@shrimpflea Ай бұрын

Traffic, especially LA to SF and LA to Vegas

@alooga555 Ай бұрын

A high-speed railway line is being built between LA and Las Vegas, but it will connect Sin City with Rancho Cucamonga, so the impact on air travel will be limited.