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The world’s busiest international routes, domestic routes and airports – observations and insights

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OAG's annual analysis of route and airport capacity was thrown into turmoil during the COVID-19 pandemic as Guangzhou became the world's busiest airport in 2020, and US airports that mainly handle domestic traffic forced their way into the Top 10 globally.

Even now, as 'normality' is seen steadily to be returning to the business, there are abnormalities, with the busiest route in the US during 2023 being not between, say, New York and Chicago, but between Honolulu and Kahului in Hawaii.

But these things don't happen by chance, there is always a reason.

This short report looks at three categories of OAG's report for 2023 - busiest international routes, busiest domestic routes, and busiest airports (all measured by seat capacity), and the report attempts to throw some light not only on the expected results, but also on the obscure and surprising ones.

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