Heathrow retains standing as world’s most linked airport – Enterprise Traveller

Aviation analytics agency OAG has revealed its newest rating of the High 50 internationally linked airports on the earth, with London Heathrow retaining prime spot.

The rating compares the variety of scheduled connections to and from worldwide flights with the variety of locations served from the airport.

So though Istanbul Airport supplied flights to 324 locations during the last 12 months (probably the most of any airport worldwide), OAG defined that “proportionately there are barely fewer connections from IST than another hubs, therefore its place in eighth place”.

Heathrow alternatively had flights to 227 locations (fewer than 5 different airports ranked within the prime ten), however managed to retain prime spot because of the excessive frequency of its scheduled connections to and from worldwide flights.

Kuala Lumpur Worldwide is now ranked because the second most linked airport, rising from fourth place final 12 months and twelfth place 5 years in the past. Tokyo Haneda, Amsterdam Schiphol and Incheon Worldwide spherical out the highest 5.

However New York JFK and Frankfurt Airport have each fallen within the rankings, with JFK transferring from second to sixth spot, and Frankfurt falling from sixth to tenth place.

4 of the highest ten linked airports are within the EMEA area (Heathrow, Amsterdam Schiphol, Paris CDG, Istanbul and Frankfurt), with three in Asia (Kuala Lumpur Worldwide, Tokyo Haneda and Incheon Worldwide), and two in North America (New York JFK and Chicago O’Hare).

OAG additionally revealed knowledge on probably the most linked airports for low-cost flights, with Kuala Lumpur Worldwide topping the checklist, adopted by Manila’s Ninoy Aquino Worldwide, Incheon Worldwide, Singapore Changi and Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Worldwide.

The one European airport to make the highest ten checklist of most linked airports for low-cost companies was Barcelona-El Prat in eighth place.

Earlier this 12 months OAG revealed its report on the busiest airline routes for 2023, with Kuala Lumpur Worldwide-Singapore Changi topping the checklist of worldwide routes with 4.9 million seats.

OAG reveals busiest airline routes in 2023

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