28/05/2025
✈️ How Airlines Decide Where Planes Fly: A Simple Explanation for Curious Young Minds ✈️
Hey friends! 😊 Ever wondered how airlines decide which places planes fly to and how often they go there?
It’s not just about picking cool places on the map. Airlines have to check something called commercial volume requirements — basically, how many people and how much stuff (cargo) need to be moved between two places.
💡 Let’s break it down:
🔹 If lots of people want to travel from City A to City B often, that's good passenger demand.
🔹 If there are lots of goods or packages (like food, clothes, or electronics) that need to be flown from one place to another, that’s cargo demand.
📊 Airlines study this demand before starting a flight route. Why? Because flying planes is expensive — they have to pay for fuel, staff, airport fees, and more.
👉 So they ask questions like:
Will the plane be full most of the time?
Will we make enough money from tickets and cargo fees?
Is it worth flying this route daily, weekly, or not at all?
🚫 If not enough people or cargo use the flight, the airline can lose money. That’s why some small towns might not have daily flights — there just isn’t enough volume to make it work.
✅ But if there's high demand, airlines are more likely to:
Fly bigger planes.
Add more flight times.
Keep that route open for a long time.
So next time you see a plane in the sky, remember — it's flying that route because enough people and cargo make it worth it! 💼🧳📦
Morobe Provincial Member, Luther Wenge, has voiced strong concerns in Parliament regarding the delayed commencement of international flights from the newly developed Nadzab Tomadachi International Airport, questioning its current "half white elephant" status.
