Top Air Routes Converge on a Few Destinations

In this top-20 snapshot of international seat capacity, the busiest corridors do not spread evenly across the globe. The USA, United Kingdom, Spain, Korea Republic of, and the UAE appear repeatedly on the destination side.

Each line connects one origin country on the left to one destination country on the right. Line width encodes seat capacity, and color highlights recurring destination countries rather than geography on a map.

Source: OAG airline frequency and capacity statistics. Caveat: this file contains only the top 20 route-country pairs in the snapshot, not a full global route network.