The routes and airports with the highest turbulence rate in 2023 are named
Knowing the most turbulent airports and routes in the world can be a real boon for passengers who are quite nervous about such phenomena during flights.
The ranking was compiled by turbulence forecasting website turbli.com, which analyzed more than 150,000 long- and short-haul flight records in 2023 to determine the most turbulent flight routes of the past year on average, and analyzed the world's 500 largest airports, the Daily Mail reports.
The 1,184-mile (1,905 km) route from Santiago, Chile, to Viru Viru International Airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, was recognized as the world's most turbulent with an average EDR of 17.5. The second most volatile is the short-haul 210-mile route from Almaty in Kazakhstan to its capital Bishkek (EDR 17.4).
Six of the ten most difficult routes worldwide are those in Japan and China. Experts attribute this to the high jet stream activity in these regions, which disturbs the air.
The worst turbulence in Europe as a whole was observed on the 132-mile flight route from Milan to Geneva (EDR 16.3), the fifth most turbulent route in the world.
According to Turbli, five of the ten most turbulent routes in Europe took off or landed in Zurich, with mountain wave turbulence coming from the Swiss Alps being the likely reason for this.
Top 10 most turbulent routes in the world in 2023:
- Santiago (SCL) - Santa Cruz (VVI)
- Almaty (ALA) - Bishkek (FRU)
- Lanzhou (LHW) - Chengdu (CTU)
- Centrair (NGO) - Sendai (SDJ)
- Milan (MXP) - Geneva (GVA)
- Lanzhou (LHW) - Xianyang (XIY)
- Osaka (KIX) - Sendai (SDJ)
- Xianyang (XIY) - Chengdu (CTU)
- Xianyang (XIY) - Chongqing (CKG)
- Milan (MXP) - Zurich (ZRH).
Top 10 busiest airports in the world in 2023:
- Santiago (SCL)
- Natori (SDJ)
- Wellington (WLG)
- Sapporo (CTS)
- Osaka (KIX)
- Bishkek (FRU)
- Tokoname (NGO)
- Lanzhou (LHW)
- Tokyo (HND)
- Christchurch (CHC).
