Sydney-Melbourne Crowned 5th Busiest Route Worldwide

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The route from Sydney to Melbourne has once again become one of the busiest routes globally.

Despite travel capacities being reduced, the route is now the fifth busiest in the world, up from sixth last October thanks to a surge over the summer holiday period.

According to OAG, the world’s leading aviation data provider, the Sydney to Melbourne route jumped up to 8,204,871 seats per year, passing the Saudi Arabian Jeddah to Riyadh service which had 7,495,790 seats per year.

Seoul to Jeju Island in South Korea remained the busiest route in the world, followed by Tokyo to Sapporo in Japan, Hanoi to Ho-Chi Minh in Vietnam and Tokyo to Fukuoka.

Travel capacity has begun its return to pre-pandemic numbers, with a spike in domestic travel occurring in June last year, however, this was spoiled by all-time records for delays in April, June and July.

The industry has since recruited thousands of extra staff, and reduced flight capacity to catch up. The result other than a reduction in delays is massive profits for airlines, thanks to high demand and low capacity driving up airfare prices.

Now airlines are hesitant to increase capacity again due to the risk of profits decreasing.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said whilst it acknowledges that the increased fairs and reduced capacity are a result of “high jet fuel costs and operational challenges,” it would be keeping an eye on airfares.

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Following this, Geoff Culbert, chief executive of Sydney Airport, is urging airlines to ramp up capacity in an effort to restore travel back to pre-pandemic normal.

Culbert says whilst it is exciting that the airport saw three million travellers in December for the first time since the pandemic, traffic is still 20 per cent less than in 2019.

“호주인들이 친구와 가족을 만나고 이 위대한 나라를 탐험하기 위해 여행을 떠나는 크리스마스 기간 동안 우리 국내선 터미널은 분주했습니다. 그러나 411,000년 2022월에는 2019년 XNUMX월보다 국내선 승객이 XNUMX명 줄어들어 회복이 끝나지 않았습니다.”라고 그는 말했습니다.

"호주는 관광, 교육 및 수출 산업의 지속적인 회복을 보려면 더 많은 용량을 신속하게 확보해야 합니다."

Qantas has previously stated that it would be raising its domestic capacity from March 2023, adding 57 new return services a week.

This would bring the airline’s capacity to 93 per cent of what it was pre-pandemic. By the end of the year, it hopes to be at 104 per cent capacity.