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

11 routes
#RouteViewsPriorGrowthAff. clicksPage
1BER → DPS20+100.0%—/routes/BER-DPS
2LHR → MAD20+100.0%—/routes/LHR-MAD
3LAX → BKK20+100.0%—/routes/LAX-BKK
4/en/routes/market/usa10+100.0%—/routes/market/usa
5BKK → MFM10+100.0%—/routes/BKK-MFM
6CGK → MES10+100.0%—/routes/CGK-MES
7ATL → DPS10+100.0%—/routes/ATL-DPS
8CGK → BDJ10+100.0%—/routes/CGK-BDJ
9FRA → DPS10+100.0%—/routes/FRA-DPS
10DXB → RUH10+100.0%—/routes/DXB-RUH
11/en/routes/market/indonesia14-75.0%—/routes/market/indonesia

Top pages by affiliate-click intent

Pages users actually click flight/hotel/transfer CTAs on
#PageAffiliate clicks
1/en/airlines/breeze-airways/route-map 54
2/en 19
3/en/airlines/united-airlines/route-map 15
4/en/events/concerts/bruno-mars-asia-tour-2026 15
5/en/events/concerts/coldplay-asia-tour-2026 11
6/en/airlines/virgin-atlantic/route-map 10
7/en/airports/boston-airport-train-guide 8
8/en/events/concerts/blackpink-solo-asia-tours-2026 8
9/en/airlines/air-corsica/route-map 8
10/en/airports/pek 8
11/en/layover/cartagena-6-hour-guide 6
12/en/destinations/bangkok 5
13/en/events/concerts/olivia-rodrigo-asia-tour-2026 5
14/en/layover/seoul-24-hour-guide 4
15/en/layover/montevideo-6-hour-guide 3

Top referrers (search + discovery)

DomainViewsShare
www.bing.com2,62754.4%
duckduckgo.com86317.9%
search.yahoo.com57011.8%
www.google.com2986.2%
www.ecosia.org1172.4%
uk.search.yahoo.com911.9%
copilot.microsoft.com751.6%
ca.search.yahoo.com551.1%
www.perplexity.ai551.1%
au.search.yahoo.com481.0%
r.search.yahoo.com190.4%
claude.ai150.3%

LLM referrers (emerging channel)

LLMViewsShare
copilot.microsoft.com7571.4%
chatgpt.com1514.3%
claude.ai1514.3%

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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