Heathrow-New York JFK named busiest route from Europe

London Heathrow to New York’s JFK has been named as Europe’s busiest airline route in 2024, according to aviation data specialist OAG.

The total number of seats in both directions on the LHR-JFK route was just over 4 million this year, which was up by 3 per cent on 2023’s capacity.

But this was only high enough to rank as the 10^th busiest international route globally in OAG’s Busiest Flight Routes of 2024, with the list topped by Hong Kong-Taipei at 6.8 million seats.

The global list was dominated by regional Asia-Pacific routes, which took seven of the top 10 places as air travel in the region continued to recover post-Covid. Although the second busiest international route this year was Cairo to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia at 5.5…