Forward Demand Pulse

Route demand signals — 30 days.

Real search intent and affiliate-click data from AirConnect's route, flight and airport pages. Internal traffic filtered out. LLM-referrer data captured separately — ChatGPT/Copilot referrals are an emerging discovery channel for travel intent.

Top routes by search intent

5 routes
#RouteViewsPriorGrowthAff. clicksPage
1KUL → LGK10+100.0%/routes/KUL-LGK
2KUL → PNH10+100.0%/routes/KUL-PNH
3LAX → PNH10+100.0%1/routes/LAX-PNH
4SIN → VTE10+100.0%/routes/SIN-VTE
5/en/routes/market/thailand10+100.0%/routes/market/thailand

Top pages by affiliate-click intent

Pages users actually click flight/hotel/transfer CTAs on

Top referrers (search + discovery)

DomainViewsShare
www.bing.com81951.4%
duckduckgo.com23915.0%
chatgpt.com21113.2%
search.yahoo.com1449.0%
au.search.yahoo.com442.8%
www.ecosia.org281.8%
uk.search.yahoo.com241.5%
cn.bing.com231.4%
ui.awin.com181.1%
ca.search.yahoo.com171.1%
www.google.com150.9%
sg.search.yahoo.com120.8%

LLM referrers (emerging channel)

LLMViewsShare
chatgpt.com21194.6%
copilot.microsoft.com125.4%

ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity etc. are an early-stage but rapidly growing discovery channel. AirConnect's LLM-citation rate is a leading indicator for AI-driven travel intent.

Methodology

Source

PostHog event telemetry from airconnect.live — pageviews on routes/* and flights/*-to-* pages + affiliate_clicked events. Refreshed hourly.

Filtering

Internal-domain referrals (app.travelpayouts.com, own domain) excluded. Direct traffic excluded from referrer attribution.

Growth comparison

Prior period = same number of days immediately before the active window. Growth% rounded to 1 dp.

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