Lot of choice going East via the legacies and the MEB3 which makes it a tough ask.
Those are identified boardings and only a part of a gamut of matrices employed in route development as a starting point.
If you only looked at this number ignored contained and future potential other industrial and leisure indicators, socio economic trends (that may indicate yield potential) political leverage and just little entrepreneurial risk taking no new route would ever commence anywhere !
An interesting static worth considering is that Hainan has announced PEK-BOS on a 2012 boarding figure of just 127,418 for ALL of China from Logan.
Air China are operating to Geneva on boardings of 85,000 for ALL of China in 2011 !
Presee a useful matrix but only a jigsaw corner piece
