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50 Busiest Air Routes from Los Angeles

Below are the 50 busiest passenger routes from airports in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Using the map, try and name the destinations.
Airports serving the same metro area are included together
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Quiz by relessness
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Last updated: November 14, 2018
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First submittedApril 12, 2017
Times taken39,538
Average score76.0%
Rating4.87
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4+ Million
San Francisco
New York City
Dallas
Phoenix
Las Vegas
1.5+ Million
Chicago
Seattle
Denver
Sacramento
Houston
Atlanta
1.5+ Million
Honolulu
Salt Lake City
Portland
Washington/Baltimore
London
Miami
600,000+
Minneapolis
Boston
Tokyo
Seoul
Vancouver
Mexico City
Kahului
Taipei
Guadalajara
600,000+
Sydney
Austin
Detroit
Orlando
Charlotte
San Diego
Toronto
Philadelphia
390,000+
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Paris
San Jose del Cabo
Auckland
New Orleans
Kona
Melbourne
390,000+
Beijing
Lihue
Nashville
San Salvador
San Antonio
Brisbane
Frankfurt
Cancun
+22
Level 82
Apr 12, 2017
How did so many people know those obscure Hawaiian ones?
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Level 54
Sep 8, 2017
I'm not sure but I do know MAUI is sure easier to spell than Kahului.
+30
Level 85
Sep 13, 2017
They cheat.
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Level 70
Jan 19, 2018
NO I DON'T I AM FROM HAWAII SO I KNOW THESE THINGS! I AM REALLY MAD THAT YOU JUST SAID THAT!!!!!
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Level 35
Feb 22, 2018
I’m from Connecticut. I do not care.
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Level 56
Jan 11, 2019
Correction: Devvik2 actually knows them, the rest of us cheat :P

(Edit: to be fair "cheating" and repeatedly taking the quiz is a valid way of learning these things so you do know them... that's how I learned all the countries and capitals!)

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Level 75
Sep 13, 2017
A lot of people from California vacation in Hawaii and the quiz allows you to name the island, not necessarily the city the airport is in.
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Level 71
Sep 13, 2017
I work for a company with branches in each of those Hawaiian cities...maybe a bunch of my coworkers also kill time taking quizzes??
+6
Level 82
Nov 23, 2017
I just typed Maui, Oahu, Lanai, Hawaii, etc. Some worked, some didn't.
+3
Level 73
Jan 22, 2018
Maui and Kauai worked, which makes sense since you fly into them for the islands rather than the site where the airport is. (I've flown into both of those and I don't remember their actual names.) Honolulu and Hilo need the place names, which also makes sense. Judicious work, Quizmaster!
+13
Level 82
Feb 22, 2018
I only missed Kona and ended up with 89%. I think people are cheating. Not Devvik. But there simply aren't that many people who live in Hawaii.
+1
Level 66
Feb 22, 2018
I got Kona because I had read something about that airport just a few days ago, maybe somewhere in a comment on Reddit or something obscure like that, but by typing the islands I got the other two as well. I don't think people are cheating, well, not that many anyway. There are always some.
+4
Level 63
Feb 22, 2018
You don't have to live there to know about it. Hawaii is a very popular vacation destination. Obviously hundreds of thousands of people are flying into these airports or else they wouldn't be on that list. Maybe some of those people take Jetpunk quizzes.
+3
Level 59
Feb 24, 2018
I got Kona because that's where I flew into when I went to Hawaii- aside from that one, the rest are all major cities or islands in Hawaii, which I imagine many people, especially those who regularly take quizzes on here, would know without needing to cheat.
+3
Level 89
May 8, 2018
Since when is it required to live somewhere to know something about that place?
+1
Level 75
Jun 28, 2018
I didn't even think of Honolulu and never heard of the other Hawaii ones but I guess there will be a lot of people from California taking this quiz and if Hawaii is one of the most common destinations it makes sense a lot of people will know them...
+2
Level 82
Jul 25, 2018
You don't have to be from a place to know something about it but those 3 smaller Hawaiian cities are very obscure and it's my opinion that people are cheating.
+1
Level 56
Jan 11, 2019
@kalbahamut -- what you call cheating I call "a good way to learn geography trivia". If I was not allowed to retake quizzes on here using knowledge I learned from previous takes, I would still not know the name of most of the worlds countries :P
+2
Level 84
May 1, 2019
Well, as a European I had no idea about the Hawaiian destinations other than Honolulu. I would imagine most on this side of the Atlantic don't, other than geography buffs or people who have been there. What are the demographics for Jetpunk users anyway? Is it listed somewhere?
+2
Level 45
Jun 15, 2019
I just assumed it was common knowledge that Kahului, Kona, and Lihue were major airports of Hawaii... I've never been, but I know my airports!
+1
Level 82
Feb 13, 2020
see? By jelly's own admission.... cheating. Looking up the answers after the quiz is over is learning. Looking them up the first time you take it is cheating.
+1
Level 53
Sep 12, 2022
i went before
+1
Level 47
Feb 22, 2018
I'm not from America (as in the continent) so I didn't even know most of the continental airports/cities :(
+1
Level 56
Jan 11, 2019
Make a quiz about geography in your country that all of us Americans will fail at! (Caveat: this is a trivia quiz website so there's a good chance many of the Americans on here will know it or be willing to learn it to ace your quiz. But still, could be fun!)
+1
Level 40
Feb 22, 2018
I used to work for an airline that flew to Hawaii, which is why I knew those ones.
+1
Level 55
Aug 8, 2018
I got "Lihue" by typing Kauai and "Kahului" but typing Maui. The siame strategy (typing the specific island's name) doesn't work for "Kona," though; I typed "Hawaii", thinking of the Big Island, but I guess it makes sense it wouldn't apply in that case. I'd be surprised if people knew the actual airport names, but since the island names work as answers, and the islands aren't somehow known or visited only by Hawaiians or Californians, I'd assume that's the reason. Handy dandy auto-fills.
+1
Level 71
Aug 21, 2018
I typed Honolulu, Kauai, Kona, Maui, and got them all.
+1
Level 49
Sep 14, 2020
Somewhere between mid-teens and mid-30s is probably expected given that many Americans may well know the answer
+1
Level 59
Jan 14, 2022
i just look at maps a lot lmao im not cheating
+2
Level 76
Sep 13, 2017
What about 'shifting' the world map so Los Angeles is at the center? Or at least not so near the edge
+11
Level 71
Sep 13, 2017
"Typical Amer-centric map bias..."

/s

That might help demonstrate the distances to Asia and Oceania better, but I'm not sure if it would really affect scores that much.

+3
Level 28
Feb 22, 2018
Lol. Some call it an Americ-centric bias. Others call it the international dateline.
+1
Level 45
Mar 2, 2018
You should see the map of the world outside the LDS church world headquarters in Salt Lake then. :)
+2
Level 76
Sep 13, 2017
Hey Scambi, at the moment Italy is in the middle of the world map, so offering that shift is a very noble gesture
+1
Level 67
Sep 21, 2017
Its actually Libya, not Italy
+1
Level 88
Dec 30, 2019
Actually, it's Null Island in the Atlantic.
+2
Level 82
Nov 23, 2017
Put L.A. in the middle and then Asia would be split in half. Not a good idea.
+2
Level 66
Sep 21, 2017
How about making (or featuring if its already been made) a versions of the Busiest Air Routes quizzes without the map? This quiz is basically just can you name 50 cities on a map, not name the 50 Busiest Air Routes from LA as the title says. Takes the fun out of it.
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Level 82
Nov 23, 2017
Good idea. You could call the quiz, "50 Most Popular Ways to Escape L.A.".
+3
Level 78
Dec 7, 2017
How does San Salvador make this list?
+13
Level 80
Feb 22, 2018
Because it's one of the 50 busiest air routes from Los Angeles.
+4
Level 82
Feb 22, 2018
There are tons of Salvadorians living in LA
+1
Level 73
Sep 28, 2021
I like ABomb's explanation. I know there's tons of Salvadorans in LA but I haven't met one that actually wants to go back to it in the current circumstances.
+3
Level 77
Apr 27, 2021
San Salvador is a major hub for Avianca. A few years ago Avianca (a Colombian airline and part of the STAR Alliance) bought TACA which was headquartered in San Salvador. Over the years leading up to that acquisition, TACA bought up several other Latin American airlines causing many of them to reroute their flights to/through San Salvador where they had previously stopped in other Central American cities along the way between North America and South America. For several hours every day (pre-COVID at least) the airport in San Salvador is a hive of activity.
+1
Level 47
Feb 22, 2018
Can you accept San Fransisco?
+2
Level 44
Feb 22, 2018
Seriously people fly from LA to SD?
+4
Level 45
Mar 2, 2018
yep. door to door it's easily a 3 hr drive from LAX to San Diego airport and can easily be worse.
+2
Level 56
Jan 11, 2019
What Goalslammer said. Also sometime connecting flights give you weirdly short hops (this happens to me most of the time in Texas but has happened in CA).

Heck, there's even multiple hopper flights per day between LAX and SNA!

+1
Level 44
Apr 12, 2023
Connecting flights. LAX is a hub for the big 3 + Alaska. SAN is a hub for none, and only a focus city for Alaska.
+1
Level 47
Feb 22, 2018
Why does Maui and Kauai work but not Hawaii?
+2
Level 77
Apr 27, 2021
Probably because the Big Island has two main airports, Hilo (ITO) and Kona (KOA). Maui and Kauai each only have one main airport.
+1
Level 59
Feb 22, 2018
Sometimes it's just nicer to stay home and relax.
+3
Level 64
Feb 25, 2018
Would recommended to add Fort Worth as a type in for Dallas, as the airport is in between Dallas, and Fort Worth, thusly named "Dallas/Fort Worth Airport"
+2
Level 72
Jul 21, 2018
I missed the New Zealand answer because on the ipad New Zealand is cut off the screen and I didn't realise until the answers came up.
+1
Level 68
Mar 19, 2020
Only missed the three obscure Hawaiian ones. Good quiz.
+2
Level 55
Mar 27, 2020
I think that Denver is a bit too East.
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Level 61
Apr 6, 2020
Ok, honestly, I thought there would be a lot more international flights, and was surprised there were few to Latin America outside of Mexico- I thought there would be more in Asia, but a lot of Oceania! I thought New York was flying to Europe, Los Angeles- Asia and Oceania! Cool quiz!
+1
Level 57
Feb 2, 2021
Keep in mind Asia flights are across the entire pacific ocean, very long. I wonder if this counts just destination or if I'm taking a flight to tokyo and we stop in Honolulu it counts as honolulu
+1
Level 44
Apr 12, 2023
Check the great circle route from points east of the Rockies to NRT, ICN, PEK, TPE, HKG - adding a stop in LAX to most of them represents a pretty big detour. Now check the great circle route from them to SYD - not that big a detour. So when you're looking at connecting flights, you'll likely opt for a connection in LAX to fly to Australia, but a connection elsewhere (e.g. SEA, DEN, ORD, JFK) to fly to Japan, Korea, China, or Taiwan.
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Level 78
Nov 4, 2020
As a UK dweller, I was pleased with 43/50. The only one I didn't get that was outside the USA was San Jose del Cabo. Missed Charlotte, Sacramento (doh!) and the Hawaiian ones other than Honolulu
+1
Level 79
Feb 7, 2021
I just missed San Jose del Cabo and Kona!
+1
Level 82
Aug 16, 2021
Missed all the Hawaiian ones and Guadalajara. The Hawaiian ones I had no chance on, but I feel I should have got Guadalajara. It's just my brain was in touristy resort type places like Cabo and Cancun when I was doing Mexico. I've done a few of these, flying to or from LA: Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland, Honolulu and Dallas. The trans-Pacific ones are a slog.
+2
Level 76
Feb 14, 2022
It's kinda sad that San Diego makes this list. That's only like what, 120 miles away?!?
+1
Level 50
Jul 4, 2022
That one feeling when you finally guessed all Chinese city as answers for a quiz
+1
Level 65
Aug 5, 2023
Why isn't Kailua-Kona accepted? That's the official Census name, and the name that all the airlines flying there market it as.
+1
Level 65
Jan 25, 2024
I put that too! I call it Kailua instead of Kona!