229,000 Annual Passengers: The USA's Largest Unserved Route

For airlines, there’s a lot of valuable data floating around out there. Based on traveler bookings, they know which city-pairs are in high demand and make efforts to replace one or multi-stop itineraries with direct flights. But which city pair is the largest unserved route for the United States? Let’s find out for today’s video!
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[@Azian2DaMax]

I flew the LAX to SGN via TPE route earlier this year on China Airlines. I always wondered why there weren't any direct flights given the huge Vietnamese population in the Los Angeles and Orange County metro areas, but this video answered that question!

[@vivianhuynh2109]

I flew that route too with China airlines too!

[@jimmyedwards1639]

How about the most underserved market with no nonstop flights in the lower 48; and the same in the intra-Europe market?

[@Bacchusmbt]

That color on the Vietnamese livery is gorgeous.

[@pathslesstrampled9906]

VN interiors are very nice too, and their staff is genuinely friendly. At least in my experience.

[@TheAntoine48]

Best livery ever.

[@Evolition180]

That explains why there are always so many Vietnamese people on the EVA flight I take to LAX!

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Can you do this for US domestic routes?

[@CharlieBarbarossa]

It's Los Angeles to Saigon.
You're welcome.

[@get2dachoppa249]

My first thought was Bangkok. No US flagged passenger flights operate into or out of Suvarnabhumi Airport, just FedEx.

[@coopa2002]

The route is still served though, just not by US Airlines

[@Nasitiht]

@@coopa2002 Not anymore. There is no direct flight from BKK to the US for quite some time.

[@silentcoconut]

Exactly my thought. So crazy no direct.

[@thisiskevin1000]

@@NasitihtStopovers through Tokyo, Seoul, HK, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing or Taipei

[@tylersmith4265]

​@@thisiskevin1000Or the middle eastern carriers from the east coast

[@malvinuku7878]

I’m surprised VS or BA have not flown to Honolulu with their 787s and 744 in their prime

[@OnThaMove]

Both of them are discontinuing using their 747s to start with.

[@malvinuku7878]

@@OnThaMove can you read ?….. 744 in their prime like I said.

[@owenglenn4298]

Most people flying to Hawaii are leisure passengers and are reluctant to pay the higher price of flying direct (due to fuel burn) rather than refuelling in LA or Alaska which is cheaper.

[@quadon2620]

I checked it for myself and the way that the direct route from LAX to SGN genuinely runs 1km northwest of the TPE runway is insane

[@1992AC]

They only have to go up to SFO to get the direct to SGN!

[@Papershields001]

Notice how Ho Chi Minh’s designator is still “SGN”?

[@yorgunsamuray]

Mumbai has BOM, Podgorica has TGD

[@greg_216]

@@yorgunsamuray It's a good thing they sorted out that Istanbul-Constantinople thing before air travel came about. 🙃

[@yorgunsamuray]

@@greg_216 I mean, Greek airports still display "Konstantinopolis" in the Greek version of the flight table, but the English version indeed does have Istanbul. Or so I have heard.

[@silentservant_]

😂

[@xebagac0109]

Changing it causes more unneeded problems. Its also sounds cooler

[@GRakesan]

I do think Vietnamese low cost carrier VietJet Air can open this route one day, but by buying A350s when other airlines will want to sell them, and adapt seatmaps to put lots of Economy seats and few premium ones

[@RurbanWalker]

Awesome network planning trivia question

[@gbalph4]

LAX could serve both Saigon and Hanoi and SFO could go to Hanoi alongside SFO. Going in January through Tokyo.

[@davidyamaguchi2012]

With tourism increasing in Vietnam, SGN to IAD or SGN to JFK would be nice.

[@Teochewtuahang]

Are you sure about that?

[@eGuvKwDJHE]

How do you find this data?

[@ChrisJones-ru9yx]

Data subsciption services, like Cirium or Diio

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

What if if I want to fly to Saigon?

[@vurzionz3033]

Cover the USA's largest unserved domestic route

[@laksi0505]

What are the largest unserved route's in Africa?

[@amelmelez1969]

What are US top unserved cities to London,Paris and Frankfurt

[@ryankenyon5010]

Omaha and Boston

[@MrKumail123]

How about Bangalore-San Francisco route.?

[@ayushghosh1155]

Has high yields, does go full occupancy on some days. In fact in the southern part of India its BLR who will ever give the highest yields.

[@MrHmjg]

or from vancouver canada

[@Hubris030]

Dreamliner Economics

[@NarekLoryan]

I think LA - Yerevan, Armenia is more daily passengers

[@JamesMcOmber]

Saigon is in the US? Your title says largest USA market, so that should mean domestic flights.

[@rdspam]

Did they change the title? It doesn’t say “US Market” now.

[@williamerazo3921]

@@rdspamit does

[@icygamer4569]

Nairobi?

[@riffatpramatyo999]

Kenya airways flies to JFK, altough unprofitably

[@troodon1096]

@@riffatpramatyo999 I guess it's a loss leader for them because they can make it up in connections people will buy.

[@GregsWorkshopOregon]

I guessed Guam

[@Jhunter2007]

Well then you’re wrong

[@CongressSux1776]

Guam isn’t two cities?

[@GregsWorkshopOregon]

@@Jhunter2007 Obviously

[@GregsWorkshopOregon]

@@CongressSux1776 And Vietnam isn't the USA

[@coopa2002]

@@GregsWorkshopOregon Routes to/from does not mean the US on both ends, couldn't be more clear.

[@tomatoboi]

It’s Ee-vee-eh Air, not Eva Air

[@chrisshaw4626]

Spoiler It's LAX - Ho Chi Minh (SGN)

[@silentservant_]

I think the most profitable and busiest air route in the world today is still Hong Kong/Tapie

[@troodon1096]

Actually it's not; most profitable air route in the world is JFK-LHR.

[@lukethompson5558]

The math doesn’t make sense. First you said 229,000 passengers per year, and then you said 314 per day. Isn’t that 627 per day?

[@usernamefreaks]

Could be counting one way traffic vs round trip traffic

[@mikesilk7856]

And how many people go transpacific both ways same day? Try again

[@CheapBastard1988]

​​@@mikesilk7856🤦‍♂️ It doesn't have to be the same person. The aircraft doesn't return empty after you arrive.

[@widget787]

314 I guess is PDEW (Passengers per Day each Way), they could have specified better. 229,000 is overall, both ways.

[@gumbyshrimp2606]

Build high speed rail