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

14 routes
#RouteViewsPriorGrowthAff. clicksPage
1RUH → DXB20+100.0%—/routes/RUH-DXB
2/en/routes/market/usa20+100.0%—/routes/market/usa
3SIN → KUL20+100.0%—/routes/SIN-KUL
4ATL → DPS20+100.0%—/routes/ATL-DPS
5TPE → MFM10+100.0%—/routes/TPE-MFM
6RUH → IXZ10+100.0%—/routes/RUH-IXZ
7KUL → LGK10+100.0%—/routes/KUL-LGK
8PER → LHR10+100.0%2/routes/PER-LHR
9KUL → PNH10+100.0%—/routes/KUL-PNH
10PVG → DPS10+100.0%—/routes/PVG-DPS
11LAX → PNH10+100.0%—/routes/LAX-PNH
12SIN → VTE10+100.0%—/routes/SIN-VTE
13RUH → CNX10+100.0%—/routes/RUH-CNX
14/en/routes/market/indonesia10+100.0%—/routes/market/indonesia

Top pages by affiliate-click intent

Pages users actually click flight/hotel/transfer CTAs on
#PageAffiliate clicks
1/en 3
2/en/airlines/united-airlines/route-map 2
3PER → LHR 2
4/en/explore/travel-guides/asia/thailand/koh-samui 2
5/en/events/concerts/bruno-mars-asia-tour-2026 2
6/en/airlines/cyprus-airways/route-map 1
7/en/aircraft/emirates-a380-800 1
8/en/airports/barcelona-airport-train-guide 1
9/en/airlines/cathay-pacific/route-map 1
10/en/airports/colombo-airport-transport-guide 1
11/en/airports/rome-airport-taxi-cost 1
12/en/airlines/transavia/route-map 1
13/en/destinations/mediterranean/best-family-resorts-mallorca 1
14/en/airlines/breeze-airways/route-map 1
15/en/articles/singapore-7-day-itinerary-2026 1

Top referrers (search + discovery)

DomainViewsShare
www.google.com3,86463.0%
www.bing.com1,14018.6%
duckduckgo.com3656.0%
chatgpt.com2524.1%
search.yahoo.com2484.0%
cn.bing.com510.8%
uk.search.yahoo.com500.8%
au.search.yahoo.com450.7%
copilot.microsoft.com430.7%
www.ecosia.org340.6%
sg.search.yahoo.com200.3%
ca.search.yahoo.com190.3%

LLM referrers (emerging channel)

LLMViewsShare
chatgpt.com25284.3%
copilot.microsoft.com4314.4%
claude.ai41.3%

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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