Airport Route Map: Show "Cargo flights only"

[Amelie090904]

Hi everyone,

Currently the "airport route map" on the "airport information" page is rather useless. It will simply show all the flights that exist which makes it quite messy if you want to use it strategically. For example, when I want to check cargo supply from/to an airport, I would open the route map and check if there are existing long haul routes to/from that region.

Example: I am in Shanghai Hongqiao and need to check if there is supply to/from Shanghai Pudong etc. I would open the route map of both Shanghai airports and see the currently served routes. This way I can easily check if the New York area is served from either airport without checking the actual route combinations (which would take a ton of time).

But since ALL routes are displayed (also passenger flights) it involves so many unnecessary clicks/tabs. In my example above, I don't care if someone is flying a 767-200ER if I want to fly a 777F on this route to serve untapped cargo demand. It's simply irrelevant to me. This could easily be avoided by having a few filter options such as "Cargo only", "Passengers only", "Show only flights of airline XYZ", "Show flights of alliance XYZ", "Show only flights with fleet type XYZ" etc...

[Jake]

Definitely a QOL feature that we need

[tungstennedge]

Hi everyone,

Currently the "airport route map" on the "airport information" page is rather useless. It will simply show all the flights that exist which makes it quite messy if you want to use it strategically. For example, when I want to check cargo supply from/to an airport, I would open the route map and check if there are existing long haul routes to/from that region.

Example: I am in Shanghai Hongqiao and need to check if there is supply to/from Shanghai Pudong etc. I would open the route map of both Shanghai airports and see the currently served routes. This way I can easily check if the New York area is served from either airport without checking the actual route combinations (which would take a ton of time).

But since ALL routes are displayed (also passenger flights) it involves so many unnecessary clicks/tabs. In my example above, I don't care if someone is flying a 767-200ER if I want to fly a 777F on this route to serve untapped cargo demand. It's simply irrelevant to me. This could easily be avoided by having a few filter options such as "Cargo only", "Passengers only", "Show only flights of airline XYZ", "Show flights of alliance XYZ", "Show only flights with fleet type XYZ" etc...

QOL features seems to be quite ignored. I can give you a QOL tip to save time when scouting cargo demand though. If you want to find out if a route is being served without say checking all routes the shanghai and jfk, simply look at the demand graph for one of those routes, where no cargo is currently being flown. If the current demand is 0-1600kg (or otherwise very close to zero) the route is being served. If the current demand is a reasonable proportion on the potential, the route is likely unserved (even 1current/10potential) is likely an unserved route. This works really accurately to and from bases where the circles more or less completely overlap, like how all london airports overlap fully with eachother, and each fo the big three new york ones do too. However, there are few enough routes with partially overlapping demand that generally you can be quite confident opening routes while only looking at one tab and being confident about the amount of demand you are getting.

If there is a route being flown, just look at the ratio between the current demand and supply. That ratio would be roughly similar for all route pairs between the same hubs. EG if JFK-LHR had 10demand/30supply, then so does EWR-Gatwick, LGA/stansted, ect.