Originally Posted by
pinniped
Without looking, I would have guessed that the area over New York City is the busiest air corridor in the world.
From an Economist article on last year's figures:
"(Amadeus) measures the cities where passengers start and finish their journeys, so while the busiest actual flight corridor in America is New York-Chicago, it only counts as the third-busiest American route because many of the passengers are connecting to other destinations. It comes just behind New York-Fort Lauderdale (3.1m) and New York-Los Angeles (3m)."
Originally Posted by
will2288
Not bad for an island with just under 600,000 people.
"JEJU, on the South Korean island of the same name, is not one of the country's 20 biggest cities. Yet the island's allure as a domestic tourist destination resulted in 9.9m passengers flying between Seoul and Jeju (in either direction) in 2011."
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graph.../daily-chart-8