Singapore-Kuala Lumpur is world's busiest overseas route
According to a report by OAG Aviation Worldwide Ltd, planes made 30,537 trips between Singapore and the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur in the 12 months to February.
The flight takes one hour time and is linked to one of the smallest countries on the planet with its next-door neighbor is the world's busiest international route.
The 30,537 trips is almost equivalent of 84 flights a day in a city state with a population of just 5.6 million.
According to the data, in a top-20 list which is dominated by Asia, the highest-ranking route outside the region ran between New York and Toronto as there were 16,956 flights on that leg.
The trip between Dublin and London Heathrow ranked 14th and was the busiest European entry with 14,390 flights.
While in terms of passenger numbers, Hong Kong-Taipei tops the list with 6.5 million people flying that route in the 12-month period, the report showed. After Hong-Kong, Jakarta-Singapore with 4.7 million and Kuala Lumpur-Singapore with 4 million.
Asia is the world's fastest-growing travel market. But even the most frantic international routes don't come close to the most popular domestic flights. The world's busiest air route, bar none, is between Seoul and a tiny island off the coast of South Korea. Planes made 65,000 trips between the South Korean capital and Jeju island in 2017, according to OAG.
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First published: 4 May 2018, 17:54 IST