World's busiest international and domestic air routes
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Last year when countries started closing their borders, Air Tahiti had to reroute their Papeete-Los Angeles-Paris flight via Pointe-a-Pitre.
It was a French Polynesia to French Caribbean to France flight.
They’re doing it trough Vancouver now that they know the Canadian government won’t cancel their flights at the last minute ;-)
However, it's not part of Schengen. The usual benefit -- no queues at the borders -- is pretty limited, when it doesn't border any other EU state, and anyone from the EU must arrive by air or sea anyway.
Since it is part of the EU, crossing the border is less-strict for an EU citizen: an identity card is acceptable, and there's less ability for people to be detained by border guards.
Well, that's never stopped Metropolitan France from creating queues at air-mode borders anyway.
Source: Flew from Brussels&Frankfurt and still got border controlled at Toulouse multiple times. Some bullshit about it being "temporary for 1 year" with endless renewals and no
I am quite certain that is a domestic route, at least for immigration purposes. Perhaps the airline industry differentiates territories as international for some reason.
* France - France (Overseas region and department),
* Russia - Russia (annexed region),
* USA - USA (commonwealth),
* China (People's Republic of) - China (Republic of)
Goes to show that the notion of "nation" has fuzzy borders.
Those routes are busy simply because there are a number of Egyptian expats working in KSA who travel back home for vacations and/or family events and stuff. Apart from that, Cairo and Riyadh are as international as you can get apart from the language - they speak different dialects of Arabic, they have different views on religion, they have extremely different cultures, and they call each other's food shit.
Both parts (Arabia and Egypt) were ruled by their respective dynasties for almost a half millennia, far longer than Ottoman rule.
I don't know why there's a lot of traffic between Seoul and Tokyo, but it's certainly not because the former was briefly ruled from the latter. Comparing these examples to the Russian and French examples is laughable.
Or that these aren't nations but empires pretending to be nations.
I doubt that...
And on the Jan 2021 top US domestic routes, what's up with those Atlanta to Ft Lauderdale/Miami/Tampa/Orlando routes? We're only partly through the month so that maybe that's why they are listed but still, I was surprised.
You'll note their data is "seats" not "passengers" i.e. if an A380 flies from London to Dubai they count that as 525 seats as opposed to however many people took the flight.
"you maintain a permanent place of abode in New York State for substantially all of the taxable year and spend 184 days or more in New York State during the taxable year, whether or not you are domiciled in New York State for any portion of the taxable year. Note: Any part of a day is a day for this purpose."
Summer is not a great time to be in Florida during hurricane season with fairly heavy rains.
This page doesn't have previous months on it. Or I haven't found it with ten seconds of looking.
Why is there so many people taking this route in the middle of winter?
Now that I live in Miami, 50 degrees is cause to break out the warmest clothes you own. Definitely all relative.
Humans may acclimate to cool temperature by increasing brown fat, which in turn may lead to improvements in glucose metabolism. These changes can be dampened or reversed following exposure to warmer temperatures.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/cool-te...
Ditto for Chicago. First 50° day of the year, and Oak Street Beach fills up.
CJU-GMP would still be top but it would be interesting to see a non Covid affected world.
I live in Kansas and mask compliance here is actually really high in all the places I go shopping, which someone on the coasts might not expect. People just don't want to cause trouble, even if they disagree with the restrictions. My 82 year old grandmother has said as much, she has made a decision that the mental health toll isn't worth it, and she'll risk exposure to go grocery shopping, but doesn't want to cause trouble so wears her mask.
There’s a big restaurant nearby that had 200+ people in it and no table or space restrictions. It was a full house.
In Georgia we are still under restrictions and restaurants are at half capacity.
Every time I've gone back I'm reminded just how much the midwest is full of people who are good, friendly, and look out for each other.
And to preempt people who think I'm acting irresponsibly, you're right. It was a spur of the moment trip and sort of a mental health crisis, I felt trapped and crazy in my home in the middle of winter, if I could go back in time I don't think I'd go. The airplane was completely full and I'm guessing drink sales are way up on planes because that's the only reason you're allowed to take off your mask. Also prices were insanely cheap for flights, $250 for round trip tickets for me and my five year old daughter.
The ocean and sun did. We drove out to the coast and spent a few days at the beach. I saw the ocean for the first time in 15 years, the second time in my life I’ve been there. The sound of the waves against the shore filled with me a sense of awe and overwhelming calm that I didn’t know was possible. My daughter couldn’t stop yelling “this is amazing!”, it was her first time. We went to the beach at midnight and she wished on a shooting star. We both got a nice tan. If I could do it again I’d have just spent the whole week on the beach.
Orlando is in the US, and San Juan is in the US. That makes it a domestic flight.
Also, Paris/French Polynesisan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_longest_domestic_fli...
Also the Asian routes tend to be routes that are not competitive by HSR for various reasons (Vietnam and Indonesia don't have any, Saudi Arabia's route is not connected via HSR); Bali and Jeju are separated from the other end of their trips by at least one large body of water with no land connection; Beijing, Shanghai, and the PRD are all way too far from each other on HSR to be competitive, as is Tokyo-Sapporo. That leaves Tokyo-Osaka, which is on the list primarily because even with HSR winning the mode share in that market the two metro areas are very large. (34m and 12m respectively, 21m if you count all of Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto)
When Asian countries had to lock down, they were super strict. See Da Nang (Vietnam) in August.
NYC had very strict measures in its first lockdown but because of the timing it was closing the barn doors after the horse left. If you get bad, it doesn't seem possible to revert to much lower without an extremely long, extremely strict lockdown (Wuhan was 76 days, for which you couldn't even really leave your home and party cadres were running food for people.)
That's a surprisingly large percentage / number.
Intuitively, It feels like too many people to either be: - On their way somewhere else (home to BC, hopping the Pacific, from AK to lower 48) - Coming for snow (either ending in WA, or legging to BC,ID,WY,MT) - Coming home from holiday - Subjecting themselves to January in Seattle [1]
… but maybe in aggregate the above add up to our 8–10 position.
Now that I've written the above out, and others have pointed out, I'm recognizing a pattern with Atlanta: we don't see bigger cities as starting points, just their aggregation point (Atlanta). Maybe reasonable to assume the same for Seattle.
-- [1] Not a dig, I live here.
If you fly between Denver and (anywhere on the coast) there is always some cheap option that stops over in Phoenix.
Perhaps it is the same with Seattle going east ...