AlexisDetroit
19th Jan 2011, 20:23
This came up in a happy hour discussion: how many commercial passenger trans-Pacific flights are there each day between North America and East Asia? Airports in East Asia, for the sake of this discussion. range from Singapore to Seoul and Toyko, including China.
My guess for trans-Pacific flights between airports in North America and East Asia is in the 30 to 40 range.
For cargo (non-military) trans-Pacific flights I'm guessing twice the number of commercial passenger flights, 60 to 80.
Anyone know on average how many of each-type trans-Pacific flights there are?
Peter47
21st Jan 2011, 19:35
There is data on the web for flights to/from the USA at
Contents (http://ostpxweb.dot.gov/aviation/usstatreport.htm)
As a rule of thumb add 20% for passengers to/from Canada - most freight stops at Anchorage anyway. Statistics are also published by IATA / ICAO, but I am not sure that they are publically available for free. Statistics are also available in publications such as Airline Business.
I have extracted statistics for June 2010 (the latest available month)
Jun-10 Avg / day
North Pacific (Dwac 7nn)
Commercial Flights - 11,572
Passengers - 2,009,894
Seats - 2,321,255
Cargo (tons) - 325,709
South Pacific (Dwac 8nn)
Commercial Flights - 1,733
Passengers - 314,612
Seats - 386,483
Cargo (tons) - 14,469
The average per day
North Pacific (Dwac 7nn)
Commercial Flights - 386
Passengers - 66,996
Seats - 77,375
Cargo (tons) -10,857
South Pacific (Dwac 8nn)
Commercial Flights - 58
Passengers - 10,487
Seats - 12,883
Cargo (tons) - 482
(Apologies for the poor formatting - whatever I do doesn't seem to work)
I'm afraid that I have not been able to separate out freight only flights but if you download the data it gives city pairs and airlines (so you can identify cargo carriers).
In any case I think that its more flights and passengers that you may think.
AlexisDetroit
27th Jan 2011, 06:35
I was thinking around 40 commercial passenger flight per day across the norther hemisphere of the Pacific and it's more like 380, including cargo flights. Wow.