IATA released 2024 World Air Transport Statistics.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its 2024 World Air Transport Statistics report, and it’s filled with fascinating data’s.

• The United States is the world’s biggest aviation market, with 876 million passengers per year in 2024, mostly flying domestic. That’s four times more than India, which is the world’s most populous nation and the fifth biggest aviation market.

• China follows at the Second Position, with 741 million passengers in 2024 and a catapulting growth of 18.7% growth year-on-year, compared to America’s modest 5.2%.

• The United Kingdom, although is a 94,000 square-mile island nation, but it is the world’s No.3 aviation market, with 261 million passengers scooting above land and sea in 2024.

• Spain occupying the Fourth Position in the aviation market, with 241 million passengers last year.

• The most populous country India holds the Fifth Position in the aviation market, with approximately 220 million passengers.

Nine out of 10 of the world’s busiest flight routes are in the Asia-Pacific region.

• The world’s busiest flight route is the South Korean domestic flight, a 01 hour and 15 minute trip between the island resort city of Jeju (CJU) and the capital, Seoul (GMP). More than 13 million passengers flew the route in 2024.

• The busiest route in North America is New York (JFK) to Los Angeles (LAX) where 2.2 million passengers completed their voyages last year.

• The most popular European route is the hour-long flight between Spanish vacation hot spots Barcelona (BCN) and Palma de Mallorca (PMI), with 2 million passengers in 2024.

• The busiest route in Latin America (with 3.8 million passengers) is the one-hour flight between Bogotá (BOG), the Colombian capital, and Medellín (MDE), Colombia’s second-largest city.

• Africa’s most popular route, with 3.3 million passengers, is the two-hour domestic South African flight between Cape Town (CPT) and Johannesburg (JNB).

• Finally, while the Boeing 737 Max has had a calamitous history, the Boeing 737 (including all variants), remains the world’s most-used aircraft, making 10 million flights in 2024.

• The Second and Third Positions are occupied by Boeing’s European rival Airbus. The A320 flew 7.90 million flights and the A321 flew 3.40 million.

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