A flight route that lands right her in London has just been crowned one of the world’s busiest flight routes of 2025.
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The aviation-aficionados over at OAG have kindly created what can only be described as the Spotify wrapped of flight routes. They delved into the data and crunched the numbers like a packet of aeroplane pretzels to reveal (among other things) which cross-border air routes were the busiest in the whole world in 2025. And a flight that lands right here in London was named among the top ten busiest of all.
The jam-packed journey in question soars across the Atlantic, transporting passengers from the Big Apple to the Big Smoke. A whopping 3,971,000 passengers plonked themselves down on one of the aircrafts that serve the route that runs between New York JFK and London Heathrow throughout the year. Not bad, hey?
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Coming in as the world’s tenth busiest cross-border flight route this year, the frequented flight path between New York and London was the only route in the top ten outside of the Middle East or Asia. Five different airlines serve the flight route – and according to OAG, it’s the most expensive journey in the top ten, with a one-way economy ticket costing on average $585. Blimey.
The busiest cross-border airline routes of 2025:
- Hong Kong to Taipei
- Cairo to Jeddah
- Kuala Lumpur to Singapore Changi
- Seoul Incheon to Tokyo Narita
- Seoul Incheon to Osaka Kansai
- Jakarta to Singapore Changi
- Dubai to Riyadh
- Bangkok to Hong Kong
- Tokyo Narita to Taipei
- New York JFK to London Heathrow
You can peruse the rest of OAG’s 2025 flight-related findings here.