Decrease in demand

[Luperco]

Is it possible that the demand of a route decrease?

I've notice that in the route Bristol Bagdad where the route go from ~80 (with Y class) to ~55 (without Y class) on 12 august 1990. Causing the route become oversupplied.

[Sami]

Yes, fully possible.

[chris.abrams67]

This is as a result of Gulf War 1.

And funnily enough why I was coming to post.

I fly from Saudi (RUH and JED). Now my memories of that time are slightly clouded by it, effectively, being the peak of my alcohol ingestion and when I could still, by looking pathetic, needy, young and not too fat and grey haired and not needing to be in bed by 10pm still, occasionally, be out trying to impress women and occasionally succeed  ), but I'm pretty sure that, while the Saudi's may not have been Sadam's fave country, probably didn't rank lower than the coalition countries, or indeed Israel.

What I'm trying to say is that my PAX demand to the birthplace of humanity is zero, lower than the UK, US, and indeed, Iraq's less than bosom buddies, Israel  .

While in terms of absolute numbers the difference isn't startling, in %age terms it couldn't be any bigger.

Surely some mistake?

And while we're at it, shouldn't Kuwaiti demand crater to zero too? Actually, demand would shoot up, but the airport would be closed, at least it would just result in a cancellation rather than the pesky "Route Oversupply" messages.

(To be fair, it was never a gold mine, from memory circa 100 pax per day.)