2. World’s busiest air routes by passenger volume are dominated by Asian domestic travel.
Seven out of the top ten world’s busiest air travel routes are in Asia.
Jeju-Seoul in South Korea remains the world’s busiest air route,
and many of 2011’s top origin and destination routes return to the league table for 2012. However, there has been some change: in particular, Beijing-Shanghai has risen from seventh-busiest route in the world in 2011, to fourth busiest in 2012. Sapporo-Tokyo has overtaken Rio de Janeiro-Sao Paulo to second-busiest route ranking, and Okinawa-Tokyo has entered the top ten table, as ninth-busiest route in the world.