Is there a reason why barely any flight paths run North -> South?

Is there a reason why barely any flight paths run North -> South?

Nothing of value to the South desu.

Possible shorter routes?

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I was memeing, but really the shortest route is a straight line so going East to West makes sense because of how few Airports there are South of the Equator. I mean, just look at the fucking map. There's no flights going North to South because there's nowhere to fly in the South. Meanwhile, in Europe and the U.S. there's a fuckton of airports to fly in and out of. It's hard to have flight paths to places when there's no where to land the plane. Stop being retarded, your question was answered by simply looking at the map.

>airports can't be built
Okay?

You could have just not posted. Totally disregarding the fact that airports are built in cities and THEN routes are made.

Instead of you know, routes being made and then airports built.

>all that aggresion
Kek.

Let me axe you a question, retardo: Who builds the airports, is it the airlines or the cities? It's the cities. Which state South of the equator has the funds to build airports like the West does? None of them. They can barely build roads in their countries, let alone fucking airports.

>all that retardation

There are literally more airports in the southern equator, in that image at least, than in the north. Simply more flights in the north.

You can use your eyes.

>still being aggresive as fuck for literally no reason
Kek, check your blood pressure.

Just stop, good job man. YOou done trolled this thread. Let it die, go ruin another thread.

>There are literally more airports in the southern equator, in that image at least, than in the north
Wut. There are more airports in Spain and the Balkans than the entirety of Africa and South America.

Honestly it is impressive to look at Singapore

Don't flight paths go in both directions?

>Which state South of the equator has the funds to build airports like the West does? None of them.

really makes you think...

this is the answer op was looking for. i came here to post this.

So... which state South of the equator has the funds to build airports every 50 miles?

If an international airport is needed, outside investment would fly in to offer support for it. There aren't very many hubs anywhere outside of North America, Europe, and the Dubai/Singapore/Hong Kong triangle because most flights are driven by how connected the economies of the origin and destination points are. The United States and the EU have tons of flights inside their borders because of how every state is itself a major economy trading with their neighbors, whereas all other major destinations are places where financial capital - centered in NA, Europe, and the three big Asian cities mentioned earlier - flows towards. The economy of South Africa and Nigeria are fairly independent of one another, but both are well connected to European finance.

So none of them actually have the funds to build airports every 50 miles. Got it. Thanks for playing friendo.

>If you build an airport every 50 miles, flights will come rolling in just because that's how the airplane industry works apparently

Many of these countries do have lots of airports, and as we can see with Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong, you don't need that many to begin with to have a lot of traffic.

Dubai and Hong Kong are not South of the equator. Your strawman about flights is irrelevant. The reason that the map is filled in Europe and North America is because of just how many airports there are.

No one plans airport flight traffic because of the Equator. And there's nothing about the argument that makes it a strawman - especially because you haven't made a single argument even remotely close to what I've been saying to count as this being a strawman.

Infrastructure is built to accommodate traffic. If there's not enough, all that means is congestion. The reason that map is filled in Europe and North America is because of the financial and other economic activity happening between their individual states, whereas in other places all international activity is centered around the capital where Western investment is most stable. If tomorrow South Africa built an airport every 50 miles, that would not change a thing. In fact, South Africa already has almost 200 airport. But there's little international travel to them for the reasons above.

>almost 200 airport
Almost 300 airports actually.

Majority of the world's population lives north of the equator.

Majority of the world's flights occur north of the equator.

Huh what a mystery.

No you don't understand, it's because there's not enough airports to fly to! If the Australian outback had as many airports per square mile as Holland you'd see just as many flights there!

>why are there almost no flights going north and south???
>posts an image that shows flight paths of American/European airlines and one Asian airline

gee I wonder

>Is there a reason why barely any flight paths run North -> South?
But your map shows dozens of flights doing just that?

bait

he dun did it again, someone stop this man

> the shortest route is a straight line
Nope.
The shortest distance is an arc of a Great Circle. (Navigation 101)
>pic related

>southern equator
You meant hemisphere, right?

/this people

ALSO
THIS IS FOR ONLY SEVEN AIRLINES.
The MAJOR airlines handle traffic between MAJOR cities and local carriers branch out from there.

wew, dubai has made quite a position for itself in the last decade and a half

Because the vast majority of destinations are in the northern hemisphere

Wind patterns.

Because more people live in the north?

Youre stupid Op. Your image only covers the airlines it names.
Or did you really think Japan, Russia and China have so few flights?
Mexico alone has more than three indigenous airlines to handle its air routes, Brazil has its own airlines as well, wich are not covered by your image, same with a lot of other countries.

Yeah QANTAS isn't on there for Australia