woodentom From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2005, 90 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 3033 times:
I was wondering in the sense of numbers, which foreign city has the most seats overall from the UK as a whole?
There must be some daily breakdown I would have thought. I guess New York or Paris must be top but with all the flights around the Uk it was something I had been wondering?
Overall in a day some cities must reach into the 1000's of seats
Amsterdan, Dublin, Geneva, Milan and NY are the only ones with more than 10,000 flights in the first half of this year. But as NY sees by far the most widebodies, I think we can easily say that NY has the most seats per day from the UK.
I have no absolute numbers though, but I hope this helps a bit.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21481 posts, RR: 24 Reply 4, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 2859 times:
Quoting woodentom (Thread starter): There must be some daily breakdown I would have thought. I guess New York or Paris must be top but with all the flights around the Uk it was something I had been wondering?
Overall in a day some cities must reach into the 1000's of seats
At a quick count there are currently about 35 daily flights from the UK to New York (JFK and EWR combined). Based on a rough guess of an average of 250 seats per flight, that's close to 9,000 seats a day in each direction.
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11126 posts, RR: 63 Reply 5, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 2788 times:
I wouldn't be surprised if Amsterdam was above New York. KLM has multiple daily frequencies to what, 15 UK airports, and then there are all the LCCs and BA flights from LGW/LHR/LCY, plus CityJet/AF. Say, at a guess, that's 100 daily flights in each direction with an average capacity of 100 people - that's 10,000 people and I'm probably being a bit conservative on the average seat count and frequency.
the CAA published passenger figures on all international flights from the UK in 2010.
Check out the above site. You will find that NYC was served from 12 different UK airports. The total number of passengers carried between these 12 UK airports and NYC adds to 4,488,950.
Of the above 4.5 million passengers as many as 3,609,714 travelled between LHR and NYC. The only other international cities with more than one million passengers to and from LHR are:
LHR is dominant. For example over 80 per cent of all those travelling between the UK and NYC used this airport. And NYC has over 2.4 times as many LHR passengers as the next largest city (DUB). It is therefore virtually certain that not only there are more passengers between the UK and NYC than any other international destination but that more seats were offered between NYC and the UK.
timberwolf24 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 562 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 2532 times:
Quoting VV701 (Reply 6): The only other international cities with more than one million passengers to and from LHR are:
Using this site my hunch that the high frequencies to AMS could result in it offering the most seats from the UK appears to have have been correct. A quick add up brings me to a total of 6,251,342 passengers travelling between the UK and AMS during 2010 - many more than New York. I can't think of another combination of connecting and leisure passengers which could top that, not even Paris.
qf002 From Australia, joined Jul 2011, 2555 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 2367 times:
DXB is massive -- almost 3,750,000 pax according to that CAA document.
The only Asian contenders for 1 million + are HKG at 1,386,000 (all from LHR) and SIN at 1,107,000 (1,022,000 from LHR).
Sure you can say that those figures are fueled by connecting traffic, but that shouldn't detract from the sheer number of people who are now travelling between these hubs.
LAX888 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2010, 256 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 1762 times:
ZRH has around 1'578'879 passengers which is quite a lot for a city with only 350'000 inhabitants. This is only from the four London airports. Quite surprised with this figure.
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