Do You Know What The World's Busiest Flight Route is With 180 Daily Flights?

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Do You I(now What The World's Busiest Flight Route is With 180 Daily Flights?

Do You Know What The World’s Busiest Flight Route Is With 180 Daily Flights?

What is the busiest flight route in the world? Most popular flight route in the world. Should to Jeju is the worlds busiest flight route. If you ask most people what route in commercial aviation transports the most passengers, very few would know that it is actually a domestic route in South Korea.

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Richard

 

[LannyPC]

I never would have guessed that in a million years.

 

[am1]

I had read it before.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I see that SFO-LAX was listed ninth.

When I arrived in the Bay Area in September 1974, PSA alone had flights leaving each direction every hour on the hour from 6 am until 9 pm. Then were flights on the half hour from about 6;30 to 9:30 a.m. and then again from 3:30 to 6:30 pm. And was just PSA. The route was also being served United, AirCal, Western, and American.

Fare on PSA was $25 each way. No reserved seats. No food service.

No boarding groups either. And the ticket was not for any specific flight - you could use the ticket on any flight, space available. When you got to the gate area, there were lines that formed for each departure. You got in the line for the flight that you wanted. When the line was long enough to fill the plane, they closed that line.

PSA was the first intrastate airline -it operated only in California. Hence it was not regulated by the FAA (it was regulated by the CA Public Utilities Commission), which allowed the, to operate as a no frills carrier and did not set fares. (The old FAA established fares for routes, and always set fares at a level where the least efficient carrier in the market would make money.)

 

[Luanne]

I see that SFO-LAX was listed ninth.

When I arrived in the Bay Area in September 1974, PSA alone had flights leaving each direction every hour on the hour from 6 am until 9 pm. Then were flights on the half hour from about 6;30 to 9:30 a.m. and then again from 3:30 to 6:30 pm. And was just PSA. The route was also being served United, AirCal, Western, and American.

Fare on PSA was $25 each way. No reserved seats. No food service.

No boarding groups either. And the ticket was not for any specific flight - you could use the ticket on any flight, space available. When you got to the gate area, there were lines that formed for each departure. You got in the line for the flight that you wanted. When the line was long enough to fill the plane, they closed that line.

PSA was the first intrastate airline -it operated only in California. Hence it was not regulated by the FAA (it was regulated by the CA Public Utilities Commission), which allowed the, to operate as a no frills carrier and did not set fares. (The old FAA established fares for routes, and always set fares at a level where the least efficient carrier in the market would make money.)

Wasn't PSA the airline that became Southwest? Or was that Air Cal?

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Wasn't PSA the airline that became Southwest? Or was that Air Cal?

Southwest copied everything that PSA did - but did it in Texas instead. But the same strategy - don't fly across state lines and thus avoid FAA regulation. Then AirCal did the same thing as PSA, but again operating only inside California.

PSA eventually started listing - if I recall correctly they were acquired by US Air (the old Allegheny Airlines) to create a west coast presence. AirCal was ultimately acquired by American Airlines, again to create an increased west coast presence.

But both American and US Airways conceived of those acquisitions as feeders for their east-west flight systems, whereas success in the west coast is built around flying north and south. Meanwhile Southwest had moved into the market, and Alaska expanded its operations, with both of them emphasizing north-south routing. Within five to ten years, both American and US Airways ended up with no more presence on the west coast than they had before those acquisitions. The only thing they netted out of those deals was some aging aircraft and operating losses from bungled strategies.

 

[Luanne]

Southwest copied everything that PSA did - but did it in Texas instead. But the same strategy - don't fly across state lines and thus avoid FAA regulation. Then AirCal did the same thing as PSA, but again operating only inside California.

PSA eventually started listing - if I recall correctly they were acquired by US Air (the old Allegheny Airlines) to create a west coast presence. AirCal was ultimately acquired by American Airlines, again to create an increased west coast presence.

But both American and US Airways conceived of those acquisitions as feeders for their east-west flight systems, whereas success in the west coast is built around flying north and south. Meanwhile Southwest had moved into the market, and Alaska expanded its operations, with both of them emphasizing north-south routing. Within five to ten years, both American and US Airways ended up with no more presence on the west coast than they had before those acquisitions. The only thing they netted out of those deals was some aging aircraft and operating losses from bungled strategies.

Thanks. For some reason I had thought either PSA or Air Cal had been acquired by Southwest. But in doing some checking I see that SW started in Texas as Air Southwest. They didn't move into California until 1989. Sounds like they capitalized on the "failure" of American and US Airways to build, or keep, those California routes. I used to fly Air Cal a lot before they disappeared.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Thanks. For some reason I had thought either PSA or Air Cal had been acquired by Southwest. But in doing some checking I see that SW started in Texas as Air Southwest. They didn't move into California until 1989. Sounds like they capitalized on the "failure" of American and US Airways to build, or keep, those California routes. I used to fly Air Cal a lot before they disappeared.

Around that same time, there was an enterprising travel agent in Utah, June Morris, who had been flying charters. She got a general aviation certificate and started Morris Air. She modeled Morris Air completely after Southwest, and her goal was to sell out to Southwest. She moved to fill as much of the "Southwest" market along the West Coast as she could because Southwest couldn't mobilize that quickly.

She was quite successful, and made a nice piece of change when Southwest decided to acquire Morris sometime around 1995.

 

[sarojasaruu]

yes i here it allredy @ somewhere