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

16 routes

#	Route	Views	Prior	Growth	Aff. clicks	Page
1	Jakarta → Bali	99	0	+100.0%	—	/flights/jakarta-to-bali
2	JFK → BKK	4	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/JFK-BKK
3	/en/routes/market/indonesia	4	1	+300.0%	—	/routes/market/indonesia
4	/en/routes/market/australia	4	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/market/australia
5	PNH → REP	2	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/PNH-REP
6	BKK → URT	2	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/BKK-URT
7	/en/routes/market/germany	2	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/market/germany
8	TPE → MFM	1	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/TPE-MFM
9	CTU → HKT	1	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/CTU-HKT
10	RUH → IXZ	1	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/RUH-IXZ
11	LAX → HNL	1	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/LAX-HNL
12	/en/routes/market/india	1	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/market/india
13	CGK → KDI	1	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/CGK-KDI
14	RUH → LHR	1	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/RUH-LHR
15	RUH → CNX	1	0	+100.0%	—	/routes/RUH-CNX
16	/en/routes/market/thailand	1	1	+0.0%	—	/routes/market/thailand

Top pages by affiliate-click intent

Pages users actually click flight/hotel/transfer CTAs on

#	Page	Affiliate clicks
1	/en/airports/zurich-airport-transport-guide	15
2	/en/events/concerts/olivia-rodrigo-asia-tour-2026	4
3	/en/events/concerts/bruno-mars-asia-tour-2026	4
4	/en/airports/zurich-airport-metro-guide	4
5	/en/airports/rome-airport-taxi-cost	2
6	/en/events/concerts/lady-gaga-mayhem-asia-tour-2026	2
7	/en/airlines/air-albania/route-map	2
8	/en/explore/travel-guides/asia/thailand/koh-samui	2
9	/en/airports/taipei-airport-taxi-cost	2
10	/en/airports/athens-airport-transport-guide	2
11	/en/airports/dublin-airport-taxi-cost	2
12	/en/airports/stansted-airport-parking	2
13	/en	2
14	/en/layover/cape-town-6-hour-guide	2
15	/en/airports/milan-airport-transport-guide	2

Top referrers (search + discovery)

Domain	Views	Share
www.google.com	8,715	72.8%
www.bing.com	1,804	15.1%
duckduckgo.com	590	4.9%
search.yahoo.com	322	2.7%
chatgpt.com	139	1.2%
www.ecosia.org	89	0.7%
cn.bing.com	88	0.7%
copilot.microsoft.com	69	0.6%
uk.search.yahoo.com	64	0.5%
au.search.yahoo.com	40	0.3%
ca.search.yahoo.com	36	0.3%
yandex.ru	18	0.2%

LLM referrers (emerging channel)

LLM	Views	Share
chatgpt.com	139	64.4%
copilot.microsoft.com	69	31.9%
claude.ai	8	3.7%

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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