How men laid waste the sky as well as the earth
Posted by feww on May 28, 2013
“Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!” —Henry David Thoreau
Global Flight Paths
Visualizations of flight paths crossing the globe. Source: Michael Markieta/ via BBC
- More than 58,000 flight paths currently cross the globe.
- Frankfurt International is the world’s busiest airport with 235 direct flight destinations
- The busiest airports by continent are Atlanta, Beijing, Cairo, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo and Sydney. [Data from openflights.org/via BBC]
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