Swine flu hits flight search volumes

Interesting stats from Kayak on the impact of swine flu on search behaviour on the meta search engine.

The stats below show the volume of searches week-on-week to and from Mexico.

From large world cities:

London - up 5%
Vancouver - down 35%
Montreal - up 30%
Madrid - down 43%
Edmonton - up 55%
Paris - up 24%
Barcelona - down 31%
Bogota - down 70%
Munich - down 22%

From large US cities:

Los Angeles - down 35%
San Francisco - down 31%
Chicago - down 20%
Denver - down 25%
Washington DC - down 18%
Seattle - down 14%
Dallas - down 33%
Boston - down 27%
Philadelphia - down 47%