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Reporter Kwon Aeri, a friendly economist on Thursday, is also out. Reporter Kwon, previously said to keep distance in life. Now, the term is changed, so is social distance the first step? Anyway, after this transition, aviation and passenger transportation are gradually increasing, right?

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Yes. If it's like before, now it's July, so it's time to talk about vacation, but this year it's still unreasonable. International flights are still almost stopped.

However, we are gradually turning on domestic flights around the world. Do you know where the most crowded air routes with a single route were originally in the world?

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Well. I have a large population, so I wonder if it is China or something.

<Reporter> This is the

original route between Jeju and Seoul. Before Corona, there was also a joke in our travel industry that flights between Seoul and Jeju come more often than subway line 9.

In fact, there were more than 17.4 million airline passengers flying back and forth between Gimpo Airport and Jeju Airport last year in 2019. It was definitely the world's No. 1.

As you can see, two routes in Japan, one domestic flight in Vietnam, and one international flight route in Hong Kong and Taipei are the ninth most crowded.

Indeed, the number of passengers crossing the 10 million and 1 million units feels overwhelming despite the last year.

In March, when the sky was freezing, CAPA, the world's largest aviation consulting firm, had a gloomy prospect that most airlines in the world could go bankrupt in May.

However, support measures were continued in each country, and air logistics continued. In addition, as passengers have survived little by little, there are some airline routes that have been used little by little recently, so CAPA re-examined the top 10 routes used by the most people in the world as of May. Please tell us the result of

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. Don't keep steaming.

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First, the number of passengers has definitely decreased, but there have been some changes in the ranking. However, the first place has not changed. In the fourth week of May, the Jeju-Gimpo route was still the world's busiest route.

And compared to the same period last year, passengers have only decreased by 8%. In the third week of May, the previous week, it was 15% less than the same period last year, but it is recovering very quickly.

As Korea continues to shift its quarantine status, demand for domestic airlines is recovering more rapidly than expected.

And the first place was our domestic flight, and the 15th place was the Busan-Seoul route. In particular, routes like Busan-Seoul were only 0.9% smaller than last year. It means that people in our country are moving a lot.

Looking at the global search volume of Skyscanner, a multinational travel reservation app, the two most searched routes in the Asia-Pacific region were Korean domestic flights.

Next, Ho Chi Minh-Hanoi, which was the fourth busiest in the world and the fifth in some counts last year, climbed to second place in May.

Vietnam is also one of the most affected Asian countries in terms of corona, and ranked second with more passengers here, up 3% from the same period last year.

In fact, the future of the corona epidemic is still too uncertain, so it's certainly a prudent point to note that it's still hard to guarantee what this vigorous move will bring in terms of viral infection.

In any case, both Corona's hitting and moving limits were relatively small, and it is clear that demand for places that have some degree of success in anti-parallelism is recovering first.

Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, and Korea are among the world's fastest growing countries with skyscan search volumes.

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Anyway, this is still a domestic flight, and the international flight is actually a bit unconventional.

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Yes. That's right. We haven't crossed the border to each other yet, except when the world as a whole is inevitable. It's frustrating how long this situation will continue, but that's why you shouldn't be moving quickly.

Still, administratively, little by little, preparations are being made to go back.

The European Union considers 14 countries, including Korea and Australia and Japan, as relatively'corona safety bureaus'. I started allowing free entry again from yesterday (1st).

Many European countries have yet to follow EU policy in detailed guidelines, including issues such as visas and mandatory quarantine periods.

However, preparations for preparing for the journey were actually starting to take place little by little.

The so-called'travel bubble', which is putting more restrictions on the movement between relatively safe countries around the world, so there are discussions about creating a safe zone internationally.