Howdy All,
After inspecting trans-Atlantic routes, we now contemplate trans-Pacific routes to and from the USA and examine them with these of 2019.
Improve in seven-digit airport pairs
The variety of airport pairs with a million or extra passengers elevated to 4: SFO-TPE, ICN-LAX, LAX-TPE, and HND-LAX. In 2019, there was solely HNL – NRT. Aggregated high 10 passenger site visitors throughout metropolis pairs elevated to 11.6m vs. 10.0m in 2019, a ten.6% important enhance. In Tokyo, a large share of worldwide site visitors was transferred from Narita to Haneda.
Main reshuffling on the high, away from mainland China
The desk beneath exhibits the site visitors for the highest 10 metropolis pairs in 2024:
Apart from the Los Angeles – Sydney route, passenger site visitors elevated on all routes. It largely outcomes from a rise in switch site visitors into China on the main Asian hubs: Tokyo, Seoul, and Taipei.
Town pairs that dropped had been Hong Kong – Los Angeles, Hong Kong – San Francisco, Los Angeles – Shanghai, and Hong Kong – New York. The pairs that had been added are Los Angeles – Taipei, San Francisco – Tokyo, New York – Seoul, and Seoul – San Francisco.
In contrast with 2019, 4 of the highest 10 routes originate in Tokyo (vs. 3), three in Seoul (vs. 1), two in Taipei (vs. 1), and one in Sydney (vs. 1). Hong Kong and Shanghai had three and one in 2019, respectively. The one change within the USA high 10 chart is one going to San Francisco from Los Angeles.
Conclusion
Because of the flight restrictions between China and the US, trans-Pacific passenger site visitors shifted to the bigger Asian hubs. Site visitors between Australia and the USA fragmented as extra metropolis pairs had been launched between different cities within the two nations.
