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This article talks about "routes" but only shows revenue by individual airlines. For example LAX <=> JFK has tons of different airlines flying between them whil
by abhinai 8y ago
This article talks about "routes" but only shows revenue by individual airlines. For example LAX <=> JFK has tons of different airlines flying between them while Qantas has near monopoly on SYD <=> MEL route (for corp travel, which is a big chunk).
I'd much rather see overall revenues between destinations summed across all flights operating between them.
- jen729w 8y agoQantas is certainly the highest but no way you could describe it as a "near monopoly". Competition is very healthy indeed, even given that Jetstar is owned by Qantas.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoQantas does not have a "near monopoly". There's plenty of alternatives. However, Qantas is the preferred carrier for businesses though, so their tickets during the morning around 8 AM and early evening tend to be fairly expensive, as they are the most popular flights for business travelers.
- asfasgasg 8y agoBA tops the list at 1B revenue NYC to Heathrow. Virgin runs 80% as many flights on this same route, so they should be making in the ballpark of 800M revenue on that route. This is more than a number of other entrants on the list. So I can only assume that the metric on display is something other than what the title and blog post communicate. It is something like, - Select all airline-routes pairs. - Group by endpoints and airline. - Order by SUM(revenue) DESC. - Drop duplicate routes. That is, for any given route, they report the revenue of the highest revenue airline on that route. They select the top ten routes by the single airline making the most revenue on that route. This is an utterly zany metric and I can't imagine what use there is knowing it, but there you have it.