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India’s busiest flight route—Mumbai-Delhi—has been ranked as the eighth busiest domestic route globally in the 2024 rankings released by international aviation and travel data and analytics firm OAG. Within the Asia Pacific region, the Mumbai-Delhi route was ranked as the sixth busiest.

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India is the world’s third-largest domestic aviation market, and also among the fastest-growing major aviation markets globally.
The Jeju International-Seoul Gimpo route in South Korea, with a seat capacity of 14.18 million in 2024, maintained its position as the busiest domestic flight route in Asia Pacific as well as globally. In fact, the top five domestic routes globally in 2024 were the same as last year.
The Asia Pacific region dominated the list of the 10 busiest domestic flight routes in the world for 2024. The list includes three routes from Japan, two from China, and one each from India, South Korea, Vietnam, Australia, and Saudi Arabia.

No route from India in top international routes:
The Asia Pacific region also dominated the list of the top 10 busiest international routes, although none of those routes were to or from India. The title of the busiest international flight route in 2024 went to Hong Kong-Taipei, which was ranked at the third spot in 2023, per OAG’s rankings. Kuala Lumpur-Singapore, which was ranked the busiest international route last year, slipped to the fourth spot in the 2024 rankings.

Other top international flight routes included: Cairo-Jeddah (second spot), Seoul Incheon-Tokyo Narita (third spot), Seoul Incheon-Osaka Kansai (fifth spot), Dubai-Riyadh (sixth spot), Bangkok-Hong Kong (seventh spot), Jakarta-Singapore (eighth spot), Bangkok-Singapore (ninth spot), and New York JFK-London Heathrow (tenth spot).

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OAG (company):
OAG is a global travel data provider with headquarters in the UK.
Founded: 1929
Headquarters: Luton, England
CEO: Phil Callow
Parent: Vitruvian Partners