The growth in air travel and tourism worldwide has been remarkable. I think it will cause more disruptions moving forward as previously cool places are inundated with tourists. Many countries have seen tourism grow at an annual rate of 10% or more for over two decades. Of course, I'm a tourist too so I can't complain - I just want other people to stay home. :)
What's remarkable is that developed countries seem to have massive growth as well, apart from the US and Japan. I'm guessing the US is partly due to 9/11 and Japan due to its population decrease
My guess is that deregulation happened earlier in the US. When it happened in the UK and Ireland, it allowed for the massive growth of budget airlines post 2000.
Yeah, there must be an out-of-the-ordinary explanation for Ireland. There hasn't been a massive population increase or anything else to explain 800% growth.
This data is done by airlines based in each country. Ireland can be explained by Ryanair. And thinking about it easyJet can probably partly explain the UK's growth.
@tschutzer like relessness said, ryanair is nearly as big as delta and it was founded in Ireland, it stretches all around the globe, youd be lucky to find a european airport without a ryanair flight
Yeah Ryanair. Most of Europe is one market but still divided into countries. Ryanair is a pan-European airline with hubs all over, but based in Ireland, so all the passengers are counted there, regardless of their passports and route.
I don't know where the major US airlines are headquartered, but you would probably get similarly surprising results if you used the same method for counting passengers "per state".
Yes I would imagine that Texas (American), Illinois (United) and Georgia (Delta) would be by far the highest. You’re right, though, the growth of easyJet and Ryanair has had an immense impact on passenger figures for the UK and Ireland. I would imagine Norwegian Airlines have had a big impact on Norway’s figures also.
Please please please restrict the percentile % to those who have completed the quiz 3 times or less , the stats are clearly skewed in the Geography category by those who are taking the test and scoring 100 percent tens and twenty and thirty times , THERE is NO possibility a first time score of 17 of Twenty would merit a 20 percentile unless the scenario i just described is rampant
Only the first attempt of a quiz is counted in the percentages. On Jetpunk, there's a huge amount of geography nerds. Or maybe people simply type a lot of somewhat likely countries really fast.
Only the first time counts. That goes for all the quizzes on this site. For this one you dont need to know much about geography. All the answers are very well known countries (perhaps UAE less so but every 8 year old will know the others) and they are rather logical guesses. Guess the big ones and the ones with a good economy and voila.
The UAE is in many ways quite obvious given Emirates and Etihad. The two less intuitive ones are the two other smallest (by population) countries on the list - Ireland and Malaysia. As others have said, these are easily explained by the massive LCCs headquartered in each - Ryanair and Air Asia
That surprised me too. I missed two countries and Ireland was one of them. Shocked to see them ahead of Germany and Japan. Everyone in the country must fly several times to and from the UK each year.
I think it's because it's not the flights to and from the country - it's the flights made by the airlines based in the country. Ireland has basically one big airline - Ryanair - which makes loads of flights in and between other countries.
The source unforntunately lacks the data for Norway, Sweden and Denmark. SAS with 29.4 M and Norwegian with 29.3 M passengers in 2016 are thrown in the mix. However their legal domiciles may not be entirely clear. Norway could get both allocations and make the list. :)
This is a list of Airlines not of travel in/out of the country where the Airline is registered. e.g. here in Australia if I fly Lufthansa to Hong Kong it is Germany that gets registered in this quiz.
It's Air Asia that's the key driver behind the Malaysia figure, not Malaysia Airlines. Though the latter in my experience is very safety conscious: the Ukraine incident was a wrong place / wrong time issue that isn't their fault; the missing mystery plane may have been their fault but we shall never know!
It does not make any sense to have Ireland fourth on this list. In fact, the EU operates as a single country. According to the "freedoms of the air" established by the International Air Services Transit Agreement (IASTA), European airlines are generally allowed to operate freely within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) without any restrictions on routes, frequencies, or fares. I would concentrate all EU countries in one, and make this quiz as "single skies" rather than "countries". Something similar may happen soon when SAATM will be operative in Africa.
I don't know where the major US airlines are headquartered, but you would probably get similarly surprising results if you used the same method for counting passengers "per state".
I know!
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