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http://www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/274818/worlds-busiest-international-passenger-routes-revealed/World's busiest international passenger routesrevealedAs hundreds of airlines fromaround the world gather in Barcelona for World Routes 2017, Routesonline canreveal the top international routes by passenger numbers. 
ByDavid Casey Posted 24September 2017 00:00
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As 275 airlines gather inBarcelona over the coming days for World Routes 2017, including the world's topten carriers by capacity,
Routesonline can revealthe 20 busiest non-stop international passenger routes on earth.
With an average of 80 flights per day - that's one every 18minutes - Hong Kong (HKG) - Taipei TaiwanTaoyuan (TPE) was the busiest during July 2017, the research hasfound.
A total of 451,801 passengers travelled the 802km between thedensely-populated autonomous territory of Hong Kong and Taipei, the capital ofTaiwan. The July total was 4.6 percent higher than June and 129,313 morepassengers than the second busiest international route on earth, JakartaSoekarno-Hatta (CGK) - Singapore Changi (SIN).
Cathay Pacific Airways hadthe most capacity on the route with 309,439 available seats, followed by ChinaAirlines with 182,986. Other operators to fly HKG-TPE are EVA Airways, Hong KongAirlines and Cathay Dragon.
As with the
busiest overall routes in the world, services in theAsia Pacific region dominated the rankings with the entire top ten taken up byroutes in Asia, and just two from outside the region making the top 20. Perhapssurprisingly, neither of these routes were in North or SouthAmerica.
At 12 was Moscow Domodedovo(DME) - Simferopol (SIP), linking Russia's capital city with Crimea, while at16th was the leisure route of Duesseldorf (DUS) - Palma de Mallorca (PMI),linking German's seventh most populous city with the holiday island ofMallorca.
The busiest internationalroutes were calculated by using OAG to find the top 100 routes in the world bycapacity in July 2017 and then ranking them by passenger statistics onSabre.
The most expensive route in the top 20 was Hong Kong (HKG) - Beijing Capital (PEK) - operated byCathay Dragon, Air China, Cathay Pacific, China Southern Airlines and Hong KongAirlines - with an average base fare of $333.08. The cheapest was Palma deMallorca (PMI) - Duesseldorf (DUS), operated by a string of low-cost carrersincluding NIKI, Eurowings and Germania.
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