KLM685 From Mexico, joined May 2005, 1567 posts, RR: 30 Posted (3 years 11 months 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 11179 times:
I was looking around the other day for Air France's destinations and I got a big surprise, I really had no idea of how much the covered the world. So I worked on this maps to compare how much big airlines have the world covered. All of the following maps have been made according to the each airline's web page ( if you detect any mistake please enlighten us)
Air France:
British Airways:
Emirates:
Singapore Airlines:
American Airlines:
Japan Airlines:
Air France certainly takes the leading in flying with their own metal to the most countries in the world. Though airlines like American, Emirates or Singapore take a big advantage when we speak about number of destinations.
Just as Air France only misses Australia, most Asian miss out Latin America.
Knoxibus From France, joined Aug 2007, 133 posts, RR: 18 Reply 3, posted (3 years 11 months 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 11100 times:
Looks like you missed Tahiti and RUN (my home island ) for AF, however since the map is quite small it's difficult to tell
AF's grasp on African routes and destinations is very impressive!!! Regarding Australia, there is a good thread about the alliance between AF and QF, therefore that explains it.
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.
BCA2005 From India, joined Sep 2005, 234 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (3 years 11 months 4 days ago) and read 11068 times:
For British Airways you've missed out Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Iceland (eff March 2006) + Namibia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Iran, Syria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan...(BA Franchises)
Stirling From Italy, joined Jun 2004, 3943 posts, RR: 35 Reply 11, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 10648 times:
Does the Air France map include KLM routes?
Otherwise, a KLM map would be interesting as well..seeing as they are one of the world's longest-legged airlines.
May I also suggest: Delta, Continental, Aeroflot, Lufthansa and Cathay?
Regional Air dba as BA used to fly to these countries but their BA franchise has ended. But I am not sure that Coimair dba BA does not fly to Mozambique.
BCA2005 From India, joined Sep 2005, 234 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 10509 times:
Quoting VV701 (Reply 12): Regional Air dba as BA used to fly to these countries but their BA franchise has ended. But I am not sure that Coimair dba BA does not fly to Mozambique.
Comair flies from Johannesburg to Windhoek (Namibia), and British Med flies from London Heathrow to both Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Khartoum (Sudan)
MarshalN From Hong Kong, joined Sep 2005, 1520 posts, RR: 2 Reply 17, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 10439 times:
Quoting YOWza (Reply 9): SA Czech Airlines">OK so I got off my ass and did a quick knock-up. Once SA joins and assuming QR joins Star's coverage will look like this.
Who's the one going to Burma?
Quoting SCEagle (Reply 15): Was I the only one who blinked twice as I was thinking of Comair (Delta Connection) before thinking of SA's Comair?
Me too, seeing Comair makes me think of regional jets...
Kiwiandrew From Mauritius, joined Jun 2005, 5533 posts, RR: 17 Reply 20, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 10341 times:
Quoting AA767400 (Reply 19): I think you are looking at New Caledonia, which is a code-share destination from CDG-NRT, then AirCalin NRT-NOU.
It is definitely New Caledonia - and as you quite correctly say it is only a codeshare so it doesn't belong on the map ... on the other hand , if codeshares are included then Australia should be on the map as AF codeshare SIN-SYD to connect to/from PAR-SIN
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KLM685 From Mexico, joined May 2005, 1567 posts, RR: 30 Reply 25, posted (3 years 11 months 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 9293 times:
Hey everyone, thanks for your reply. I worked in those maps at 3 in the morning so please forgive some mistakes. I tried to be as loyal to each airline's map and in the way I may have missed some countries.
No codeshares were included, only the ones were those airlines fly with their own metal or what it appeared to be on their maps.
Specially Air France was difficult as they have on their maps flights by AF and KLM.
Quoting Ikramerica (Reply 21): Cool but misleading. Brazil China and Russia are huge, but flying to 1 (or 2) cities doesn't mean the whole nation is covered.
Exactly, the main point was to see how much the world is linked and flights between countries. As you said, it would be a very different panorama to see the number of destinations AA, SQ or EK have instead of the whole country coloured. In that case in those 3 cases we would see probably more destinations than the AF/KL route map.
Quoting Knoxibus (Reply 3): Looks like you missed Tahiti and RUN (my home island ) for AF, however since the map is quite small it's difficult to tell
They are marked, I double checked those
I'll try and so some other maps to keep on with comparison.
Cheers!
Alonso
KLM- The Best Airline in the World!
26 Campbelldok: Interesting. Some 50 years ago it was unthinkable in its actual form. The world is truly becoming one global village. My impressions of these maps are
27 StarGoldLHR: It must suck if you live in Greenland... non of the majors but they all fly over.
28 LH423: Here's the Maps according to US States flown to BA LH AF KL LH423
29 BigGSFO: AF flies to Colorado now? I guess also the argument could be made that AF does technically fly to Kentucky even though they are serving Cincinnati met
30 KLM685: very interesting maps as well, the US is very well covered in terms of European majors flying to important US hubs/cities
31 LTU932: Two airlines and one destination you missed: British Airways did operate once service to SJO from LGW with a stopover somewhere in the Atlantic. The f
32 Airplanetire: As of October 2004, KLM flies to Georgia. Here is the map for Delta: Also, by June, Delta will serve the following countries: Honduras, Denmark, Ukrai
33 KLM685: Some Latin American majors: Mexicana: Though we have to agree that the US network is pretty big in comparison to the number of countries any other Lat
40 MAH4546: Only until the end of next week. And for American Airlines', don't forget China launches in April.
41 Manni: KE flies three times a week to Ulaanbaator with an A300. Being in the top 20 of the worlds biggest international airlines, they can be called a major
47 Atnight: Sorry folks, but VARIG doesn't serve Ecuador, stopped service several years ago... so in your map for Varig and for Star alliance, you need to take Ec
59 Iluv747400: And I think this is SkyTeam including the (pending?) associate members of COPA, Kenya Airways, TAROM, and Air Europa as well as China Southern for goo
60 USADreamliner: It would be cool to compare route maps from 15 years ago and now. Like KL, SR/LX, BA, DL, CO, etc. USADReamliner
61 Swissgabe: But Hong Kong (HKG) which is part of China now ...
63 AirCanada014: What about United and Air Canada. Both airlines fly to 5 continents unless you count India as 6th Continent for AC. North America, Asia, South America
64 Delyan: I think you missed the small country of Bulgaria. They fly to Bulgaria daily. They used to fly to Bulgaria.
65 SRT75: KLM685: Excellent thread. Excellent work. Welcome to my RR
66 KLM685: Here is another North American major: Air Canada Air Canada has a pretty impressive network, they have every continent (except) Africa well connected.
67 B757200: IIRC Czech Airlines also flies to PMV once a week. So Venezuela would be included. Don't know if it's seasonal though.
68 Campbelldok: >>> About Varig and Japan (RG at NRT) >>> MAH4546 has more accurate information, verifiable through Varig´s online booking system.
69 KiwiinOz: CSA is an interesting one. Why do you think they have demand to Colombo? Or is that a stopover to Singapore?
70 Aircellist: Just out of curiosity... From R.E.G. Davies' book about Pan Am, I found this, which is from Pan Am's network in 1957m save for my mistakes... Pretty i
71 AeroVodochody: Hmm... I can't seem to find it on their site... maybe it's seasonal. Good question, definitely not a stopover to SIN though, OK uses AF or KL via CDG
72 TonyBurr: Aircellist, did PA fly to AKL? New Zealand seems to be missed by quite a few airlines. I preusme BA does not fly there?
73 Aircellist: It seems it didn't, at least on the map on p. 64 of the book. On another map, showing wartime service, p. 48, there is a flight to Auckland.
74 UpperDeck79: Finnair as of Nov 2006: (Excluding regular charters to places like Canada, Brazil, U.A.E.)
75 AerorobNZ: Yes right up until the mid 1980s when UA took over the pacific routes. It was 747-100s & SPs by then but 707s before
76 Kiwiandrew: as mentioned above PA flew to AKL until the Pacific routes were sold to UA . BA used to operate to AKL ( and for a brief period CHC ) but pulled out
77 AirNZ: Perhaps a small point (or misprint), but am curious why you left Northern Ireland in grey indicating no Star Alliance coverage. Mind you, I did have
78 NZCH: Here's my $0.02 Air New Zealand create your own visited country map Here is Air New Zealand's world Network, I think got all of it.[Edited 2006-01-09
79 NWADC9: How about Concorde? I know it's not an airline, but hey!
80 KLM685: Wasn't it at Singapore, Reunion, Argentina, etc... as well?
81 Shamrock350: Concorde has been to Ireland a few times.
82 Usflysagain: UA+code shares create your own visited country map Not as extensive as other majors...hmm US create your own visited country map Not bad for all the t
83 YOWza: Concorde has also been to Spain, Sweden and a number of other places. YOWza
84 NZCH: I dont think US airways operate to New Zealand. Or do they?
85 KLM685: Yes, I'm doubting about some other countries too. Any one who knows well the US route map might show us the way.
86 RCS763AV: Air France and Copa Airlines fly to Cuba.
87 Iluv747400: Here is a composite Star Alliance map including SWISS and South African as well as Austrian's announced service to Erbil, Iraq. Has SAS discontinued s
88 NWADC9: You can't see it on this map. It's screwed up. I think he's counting all the codeshares as well. Otherwise, what's US doing in Asia?
90 USflysagain: I went off the HP website route map... sorry, I think they counted code shares...I'll update later
91 AeroVodochody: how the hell does anyone get to greenland?
92 KLM685: I think you went backwards... You missed lots of Latin American countries (Brazil and Mexico for instance) you get rich, buy a sailing boat and make
94 JGPH1A: create your own visited country map or check our Venice travel guide
95 Iluv747400: Your map for South African Airways must be including codeshares. They don't serve Lesotho, Swaziland, Israel, UAE, or Ethiopia with their own metal.
96 FXRA: Places I've dispatched to while working for World in the last couple of years.
97 Matt27: Yes, Air Greenland fly Narsarsuaq and Kangerlussuaq. Don't know if AGL code share with SAS.
102 Kaitak744: You say Malaysia Airlines, but you did not include the country of Malaysia it self.
103 Airbazar: I agree. Highliting a country is hugely misleading. The only accurate way to map how airlines cover the World is to highlight the catchment area for
104 TurkishSky: Turkish Airlines (including the new destinations)
106 FCYTravis: US Airways on their own (or HP's) metal:
107 UpperDeck79: That's ALL? I'm amazed, who don't they fly anywhere else in Asia exepct Japan? Don't they code-share to Finland, too? Concorde (both BA and AF) have
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