60+ Weekly Flights: The World’s Most Served Long Haul Routes

This article was researched and written on April 8. Examining Cirium schedule data for the week of April 8-14 shows around 4,000 daily long-haul flights globally, defined as being at least 3,000 miles (4,828 km), the same cut-off point as United uses. One in 25 of the world's flights met that distance criterion this week on a network spanning more than 2,100 routes.