90,421 Flights Are Scheduled September 5th: The Top 10 Airports & Airlines

Here's a breakdown of what's happening globally this September 5th, 2022.

This article is written on September 5th. On this one day, there are 90,421 scheduled passenger flights globally, according to Cirium data, with 13.8 million seats for sale. There are 3,767 flights on average each hour, 63 per minute, and just over one per second.

On a comparable day in 2019, there were 111,105 flights, meaning that services remain down by nearly 19%. There are a whopping 20,684 fewer services than there were three years ago, with a loss of 2.8 million seats – on just one day.

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September 5th, 2022: top countries

With 53,092 flights, the world's top 10 countries, summarized below, are responsible for almost six in every ten flights worldwide. More than one in every four flights is to, from, or within the USA. The country's dominance has grown as the recovery of others lags, especially China.

While still ranking second, China's flights remain down by 36.33%. Of course, that is primarily because international service remains heavily impacted and a fraction of what it was, not helped by a week of quarantine on arriving in the country. Still, Capital Airlines has recently restarted Hangzhou-Lisbon, and Lufthansa has just reintroduced Frankfurt-Nanjing.

1. United States: 23,768 flights (26.29% of the total this day)
2. China: 8,778 (9.70%)
3. India: 3,064 (3.39%)
4. United Kingdom: 2,831 (3.13%)
5. Spain: 2,816 (3.11%)
6. Canada: 2,587 (2.86%)
7. Japan: 2,554 (2.82%)
8. Russia: 2,461 (2.72%)
9. Germany: 2,118 (2.34%)
10. Brazil: 2,115 (2.33%)

Notice Russia. Despite sanctions that mean its international route network (mainly Europe and North America) has shrunk dramatically, the country has jumped two places since 2019, when it was in 10th. It has benefited from the slower recovery of Indonesia (pushing it from ninth place to 11th) and Germany. It has also benefited from Russian operators having reallocated equipment to the domestic market, which has grown.

September 5th, 2022: top airlines

American is first as it always is: after all, it is the world's largest airline. Notice that only one Chinese airline – China Eastern – features, although it fell from sixth pre-pandemic to ninth. Cirium shows that China Southern will return to the top 10 list in the coming days. Air Canada and Lufthansa remain out of the list, replaced by IndiGo and LATAM.

1. American Airlines: 5,658 flights (6.26% of the total this day)
2. Delta Air Lines: 4,594 (5.08%)
3. United Airlines: 4,029 (4.46%)
4. Southwest Airlines: 3,973 (4.39%)
5. Ryanair: 2,944 (3.26%)
6. easyJet: 1,718 (1.90%)
7. IndiGo: 1,561 (1.73%)
8. Turkish Airlines: 1,454 (1.61%)
9. China Eastern: 1,443 (1.60%)
10. LATAM: 1,347 (1.49%)

September 5th, 2022: top airports

Eight of the top 10 busiest airports on this single day are in the US, which isn't surprising. However, Seattle is in 10th, which has more flights this day than Frankfurt, Paris CDG, London Heathrow, and Beijing Capital, none of which make the cut. Notice Amsterdam, which has more flights on September 5th than any airport outside the US.

1. Atlanta: 982 flights (1.86% of the total this day)
2. Chicago O'Hare: 971 (1.07%)
3. Dallas Fort Worth: 912 (1.00%)
4. Denver: 857 (0.95%)
5. Los Angeles: 692 (0.77%)
6. Charlotte: 647 (0.72%)
7. Amsterdam: 626 (0.69%)
8. Istanbul Airport: 620 (0.68%)
9. New York JFK: 612 (0.67%)
10. Seattle: 592 (0.65%)