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

I am really curious about Canada's domestic numbers

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

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

do one on europe

I would rather fly in a 30 year old 717 than a brand new 737 MAX 😂😂😂

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…

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.

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

Good way to start the day🎉🎉

Do one for the Caribbean

Next india please

ooohhh first

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...

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.