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Following up to myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_air_routes#By_aircraft_movements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_p
by Arnt 3y ago
Following up to myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_air_routes#By_aircraft_movements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_air_... has the most congested Chinese route at number 7, just behind Riyadh-Jeddah, and its traffic is only 31% of Seoul-Jeju.
- maxglute 3y agoSorry for late reply. The wiki data is covid timeframe, and not indicative. Jeju's Gimhae airport lists 60k aircraft movements and served 10m passports in 2022. Shanghai's Pudong lists 350K aircraft movements and 30m passengers in 2021. Frankfurt Airport lists 380k aircraft movement and 50m passengers. Most major PRC airports have >300k aircraft movements and move 30-40m people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_China#2021_final_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_i... Look at 2020 stats, that's what's saturating limited air corridors. There's 11 airports that moves over 20m people with over 200k aircraft movements. Which is fraction of HSR's near 2B trips. As more chinese get richer and want to travel internally, HSR is only choice. That's without mentioning New years which is impossible to accommodate with air. HSR moves huge number bodies and saves 100s of millions hours vs slow trains trip. PRC domestic flight delays is well known for anyone that regularly flies in PRC and can compare to west, like EU/NA. The unspoken reason is US military bases in region means coastal flight corridors that are shared with military aviation which gets higher priority. There's a joke that PRC commercial flight would be smoother once they take over Taiwan, because then military aviation can push out away from coastal regions.