Air Transport versus High-Speed Rail: An Overview and Research Agenda

Table 1

Overview of the domestic air transport in five countries in Europe, three countries in Asia, and two countries in North America for the year 2015. Note that the busiest airport is ranked according to the number of domestic passengers. Data source: Sabre Airline Solutions (https://www.sabreairlinesolutions.com/). The abbreviation LF stands for load factor.

Continents	Country	Airport	Busiest airport	Avg. LF	Yield (Cent/km)	Departures	Total passengers
Europe	ES	45	MAD	81.63%	11.26	303,834	30,851,832
	FR	73	ORY	79.15%	20.10	52,433	23,978,266
	DE	35	MUC	73.97%	18.79	235,986	24,601,384
	UK	40	LHR	76.24%	23.47	308,476	22,613,459
	IT	41	FCO	80.20%	9.16	242,029	29,057,702
Asia	CN	152	PEK	83.09%	14.38	3,160,887	415,336,119
	JP	72	HND	77.51%	18.01	814,697	109,489,933
	KR	15	CJU	82.44%	17.70	145,738	22,839,327
North America	CA	257	YYZ	80.20%	12.79	796,976	46,253,333
	US	781	ATL	84.72%	10.26	7,925,761	697,090,531