As someone who has flown this route: It's almost like a bus service. No big planes but soo many of them. Just check out flight radar. It's crazy. All of South Korea goes to Jeju for vacation.
If anybody ever manages to engineer an undersea railway tunnel between Jeju and the Korean peninsula, they single-handedly will have prevented so much CO2 entering the atmosphere that they deserve a Nobel Prize for it.
Bali and Penang are not cities. Bali is an island in Indonesia and Penang is a state in Malaysia. The respective cities where the major airports are located are Denpasar (for Bali) and George Town (for Penang). Please correct or at least make it so that Denpasar is accepted for Bali and George Town for Penang.
nice! I think it would be nice for example to write in bold rows that refer to international flights. a map with all lines drawn in would be nice although I guess it wouldnt be easy since each line would correspond to two answers
The high speed trains of Europe are more efficient than their planes. The fastest way from London to Paris or Paris to Brussels or London to Brussels is either Eurostar or Thalys. Same goes with the cities of France, Spain, Germany e.t.c.
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Possibly. All countries in Europe except Russia and possibly some Scandinavian countries are small enough that any journey within the country can be made with relative ease without using a plane. International journeys are different though. I would guess that maybe one factor is that there is quite a lot of choice of airports. I have been to three different Greek Islands, and each of them had a separate airport that could be flown to from Manchester.
Actually, all the Scandinavian countries are smaller than Ukraine , France and Spain; and Germany is bigger than Finland too. They just seem bigger than they are in the common Mercator projection.
Your point about flights from Manchester makes me wonder if part of the reason that Europe is so little represented on this list is that the Ryanairs and Easyjets of Europe (tend to) fly to and from smaller airports with minimal landing fees, thus diverting traffic from other routes.
Well that explains *between* European cities, but how are people getting *to* Europe in the first place? I can't believe that Paris is not on this list, being one of the most visited cities in the world. And NY-LON's not on there? I am suspicious.
I thought maybe Rome or Paris would make the list. But I guess even though they get a lot of visitors those are from all over rather than from one destination.
I myself take a plane where a train takes more than 4-5 hours or a lot of transfers. But it sounds about right now that I think about it. I mean there are a lot of train and intercity bus stations all over Europe and traveling that way is usually way cheaper if you consider that comparable budget Airlines (like Ryan Air) usually use airports far off the city they "belong" to. Like Frankfurt-Hahn is 120km from Frankfurt.
I am surprised that Paris isn't on the list, as I'd have thought it was one of the major European hubs (London certainly is). Madrid is also (so I thought anyway) the major hub for Europe from most of South America, so I was expecting to see that here. But evidently there aren't any individual routes with large enough passenger numbers.
I agree with cuotak. The spelling of these asian cities are tedious and time consuming. I was spelling xishuangbanna for my last one and the timer ran out.
Anyone who said a perfect score was easy is either lying or cheating. How can Washington and Paris and Israeli cities not be on here but lesser known Asian cities be known to be on here?
Probably more a reflection of your knowledge of Asia, than anything else. Many of these "lesser known Asian cities" have more people than the whole of Israel, so that's hardly surprising. Plus I suspect in much of Asia there are fewer airports per capita, so people tend to be concentrated on fewer roots, compared to North America or Europe, resulting in the roots that there are being busier.
Aeroflot, Turkish Airlines, United Airlines, JetBlue, AirCanada, British Airways, Emirates, KLM, Lufthansa, Swiss Air, American Airlines, AirFrance and China Southern Airlines all do.
I don't think that's it. China, Japan, and South Korea have a lot of high-speed rail, too, and it's not like you can't get around the USA by train if you really want to. More probable reason is that European cities are not quite as big, and European countries are small so there are not many domestic flights that take place in Europe (notice that a large percentage of these routes are domestic flights). There's a lot of reasons for why that is: few people do business or have family living abroad relative to the number of people that travel for work or family holidays/leisure within their own country, also lower taxes and fees for domestic flights make them cheaper and more attractive, so while many European cities have very busy airports those airports have a wider range of destinations that they are servicing; a few major routes don't stand out apart from the rest. That's my guess anyway.
Also, people get an inaccurate sense of how many visitors European cities get looking at tourism stats, which often only look at international travel to the exclusion of domestic, and that gives you ridiculously distorted statistics for a small continent full of tiny countries that share a common economic and immigration zone between most of them.
There still has to be a lot of people coming to Europe from N.America and Asia especially, and Paris is one of the major hubs. Hard to believe there's fewer flights from London-Paris than, say, Kuala Lumpur to Penang.
For some reason I thought this was only going to be international flights. Once I got over that, it was a lot easier to use one city in a pair to deduce what the other might be.
The amount of unnecessary pollution is horrifying. Especially when you look at all these domestic flights that could be done by trains if public authorities had little common sense.
Sorry I couldn't resist. And yes I know its pronounced foo-KET
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Also, you have to take into account that China's population alone is bigger than all of Europe; hence more people is more travel.
Faceplam !
https://www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/286313/busiest-routes-in-the-world-the-top-100/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/457527/passenger-traffic-in-the-high-speed-train-between-madrid-and-barcelona/