A new report by the air-travel intelligence company OAG Singapore to Kuala Lumpur the world's busiest international air route. From March 2017 to the end of February 2018, exactly 30,537 flights between Singapore and KL. There an average of 84 flights every day - that one flight every 17 minutes or so. The route is by Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and a host of budget airlines. The flight time between Singapore and KL just under an hour. Asia the top seven busiest international air routes, with Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Osaka the busiest traffic. New York LaGuardia to Toronto, and Dubai to Kuwait the busiest non-Asian routes.
OAG more statistics on how busy the skies in the year to February 2018. The busiest route if you the number of passengers Hong Kong to Taipei. More than 6.5 million passengers between these two cities. Singapore-Jakarta was second, with 4.7 million; by Singapore-KL, with just over 4 million passengers. OAG also on the busiest domestic routes. The world's busiest domestic air route is between Seoul and the South Korean island of Jeju. In 2017, 65,000 flights the route, with almost 180 flights per day - one every seven-and-a-half minutes. The only long-haul route in the top-20 list New York JFK to London Heathrow, which around 38 daily flights.