1. This is pretty fascinating
2. Can we just add one more mapping layer on top of this for easier info digestion? Seems like a pretty light lift for a big processing human advantage.
Not surprised by the London - Dubai route being so popular. Ever since the month long lockdown got announced, a lot of tourists from the UK have been pouring into Dubai.
But it's just a map of routes, not origin:destination pairs. Who knows how many were connecting in Dubai to somewhere else, or connecting in London to somewhere else.
None of the overseas territories are part of Schengen. They rerouted there because another airline (French Bee / Air Caraïbes) doing CDG -> PPT has a base there.
They’re doing it trough Vancouver now that they know the Canadian government won’t cancel their flights at the last minute ;-)
I am more surprised that MCO/SJU route (Orlando to San Juan, Puerto Rico) is listed as international too.
I am quite certain that is a domestic route, at least for immigration purposes. Perhaps the airline industry differentiates territories as international for some reason.
Also, Cario-Jeddah and Cario-Riyadh are formerly Ottoman Empire. Seoul-Tokyo is briefly part of Japanese Empire. The only "true" international routes left are Dubai-London and New York-Santiago
This is really cool. From where are they sourcing this data?
And on the Jan 2021 top US domestic routes, what's up with those Atlanta to Ft Lauderdale/Miami/Tampa/Orlando routes? We're only partly through the month so that maybe that's why they are listed but still, I was surprised.
OAG aggregate timetable data from airlines and distribute that aggregated feed.
You'll note their data is "seats" not "passengers" i.e. if an A380 flies from London to Dubai they count that as 525 seats as opposed to however many people took the flight.
Tax law. NY citizens are avoiding taxes and often transfer through ATL. They can live in FL for more than ~180 days and they don't pay state income tax. We call them "snow birds".
"you maintain a permanent place of abode in New York State for substantially all of the taxable year and spend 184 days or more in New York State during the taxable year, whether or not you are domiciled in New York State for any portion of the taxable year. Note: Any part of a day is a day for this purpose."
To the extent you're suggesting you can easily live outside of NY but collect tax-free NY income, it's not really true. Any NY source income remains taxable by the state. In practice, this covers remote work too, despite the safe harbor provisions of TSB-M-06(5)I.
Why would this be specifically reflected in Jan travel, as opposed to other reasons, e.g. traveling to enjoy warmer weather? Or a non lockdown state in the current situation?
Southwest has a big presence in ATL and FLL. Delta also beefed up its Florida routes. The rest of the country (Likely mostly the Midwest) traveling through ATL to take advantage of Florida's lax COVID restrictions.
ATL is the busiest passenger airport in the world, so I think that just reflects that a large proportion of traffic to and from Florida will route through there, plus just the usual seasonal traffic.
Because Crimea is relatively warm, it's an interesting place worth visiting and, last but not least, there aren't that many options for Russians to go spend winter holidays in. The next work day is Monday
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Last year when countries started closing their borders, Air Tahiti had to reroute their Papeete-Los Angeles-Paris flight via Pointe-a-Pitre.
It was a French Polynesia to French Caribbean to France flight.
They’re doing it trough Vancouver now that they know the Canadian government won’t cancel their flights at the last minute ;-)
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I am quite certain that is a domestic route, at least for immigration purposes. Perhaps the airline industry differentiates territories as international for some reason.
* France - France (Overseas region and department),
* Russia - Russia (annexed region),
* USA - USA (commonwealth),
* China (People's Republic of) - China (Republic of)
Goes to show that the notion of "nation" has fuzzy borders.
Or that these aren't nations but empires pretending to be nations.
And on the Jan 2021 top US domestic routes, what's up with those Atlanta to Ft Lauderdale/Miami/Tampa/Orlando routes? We're only partly through the month so that maybe that's why they are listed but still, I was surprised.
You'll note their data is "seats" not "passengers" i.e. if an A380 flies from London to Dubai they count that as 525 seats as opposed to however many people took the flight.
"you maintain a permanent place of abode in New York State for substantially all of the taxable year and spend 184 days or more in New York State during the taxable year, whether or not you are domiciled in New York State for any portion of the taxable year. Note: Any part of a day is a day for this purpose."
https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/file/pit_definitions.htm
[1] https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/memos/income/m06_5i.pdf
Why is there so many people taking this route in the middle of winter?
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CJU-GMP would still be top but it would be interesting to see a non Covid affected world.