OAG's Megahubs 2024 highlights the strong aviation industry recovery gaining momentum in the Asia Pacific region. Megahubs details the world's most connected airports, with hubs ranked based on the ratio of international connections to the number of destinations served.
Asia Pacific's most connected airport is Kuala Lumpur (KUL), where AirAsia operate 35% of flights with a network of nearly 300 daily departures. All of the top three Megahubs on this list (Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo Haneda and Seoul Incheon) also make it into the top 5 worldwide Megahubs this year.
Almost all of the airports in the Asia Pacific top 10 have moved up the global rankings since 2023, the only exceptions being Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), moving from 11th to 12th place, and Jakarta's Soekarno–Hatta Airport (CGK), which dropped from 19th, globally, to 22nd in 2024. Making a notable leap is Tokyo's Narita Airport (NRT), with just under 20,000 international connections and 117 destinations served, it has jumped up from 60th place on the worldwide list last year, to 15th in 2024. Narita comes in at 7th place on the Asia Pacific Megahubs ranking.
China's Shanghai Pudong Airport (PVG), where China Eastern is the dominant carrier, is the airport that serves the most destinations (259) of the top 10 Asia Pacific Megahubs. Kuala Lumpur, however has the highest ratio of connections to destinations served and therefore takes first place.
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