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Long-haul routes are fewer, not thinner

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Long-haul routes are fewer, not thinner
Route counts fall 4,209 to 990 across the distance bands, while traffic per route is 20% higher in the longest band than in the shortest; descriptive band means, not a tested effect
Data through 2023
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The longer distance bands hold fewer routes, but passengers per route are broadly similar in every band, with the longer bands slightly ahead.

What this shows: The chart plots Mean annual passengers and Number of routes on a vertical axis of Passengers / count.

Conditions and method

The bars are raw means of the routes in each of the four distance bands, with no dispersion or interval, and the band means are not monotone (the third band sits below the second).

How these numbers are made

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