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Leading Airlines & Travel Services Brands in AI Search

Benchmarks, the brands AI recommends, and the sources grounding those answers across 4 AI models.

August 2026 edition

Across the six months through August 2026, Qatar Airways leads AI search visibility in Airlines & Travel Services with a Goodie visibility score of 76.7, ahead of ANA (74.7) and Singapore Airlines (73.6). The median score across the 16 ranked brands is 47.2, and a score above 38.4 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is youtube.com at 5.9% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 15.7%.

5k prompts · 1.7m AI answers · 8m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

August 2026 · Airlines & Travel Services
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
47.2
Half of the 16 ranked airlines & travel services brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 71.9
Score to enter the top 10
38.4
Clearing 38.4 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 8.8 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
10.5
A typical answer names eleven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.8
Citation mix
  • UGC 6%
  • Editorial 4%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 5%
  • Other 83%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding airlines & travel services answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here.
Brand-owned citation share
15.7%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 24.2%
Industry sentiment
69/100
Mean tone of mentions across all ranked brands. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
5k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
1.7m
197k in August · ▼ 5.3% vs July
Citations parsed
8m
1m in August · ▲ 0.4% vs July
Brands observed
411
16 ranked here · 395 unranked
Brand visibility leaderboard for Airlines & Travel Services, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Qatar Airways
76.7
10.3%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 2.983theluxurytravelexpert.com
02ANA
74.7
10.0%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 0.682theluxurytravelexpert.com
03Singapore Airlines
73.6
9.9%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.082theluxurytravelexpert.com
04Booking.com
73.2
9.8%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 4.382activetraveladventures.com
05HK Express
56.5
7.6%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity▲ 0.673timeout.com
06Skyscanner
56.5
7.6%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity73going.com
07Jetstar Airways
56.2
7.5%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity▲ 5.873timeout.com
08KAYAK
55.8
7.5%ChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.873going.com
09Expedia
38.7
5.2%AI ModePerplexity▲ 3.164portotheme.com
10Trip.com
38.4
5.1%ChatGPTPerplexity64perk.com
16 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Aug with Jul

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Airlines & Travel Services
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01youtube.com
5.9%
·
02wowfare.com
5.0%
▲ 4.5
03facebook.com
4.3%
▼ 2.7
04blackjet.com
3.9%
▲ 2.7
05shopback.com.au
3.6%
06reddit.com
3.6%
▲ 0.5
07com.au
3.4%
08apple.com
3.3%
▲ 5.5
09medium.com
3.2%
▲ 0.9
10simpleflying.com
2.8%
▼ 3.6
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Aug with Jul, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Top prompts

Top prompts sampled for Airlines & Travel Services, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Online travel agencies with good customer support51205
02Flight booking apps travelers rely on45186
03Travel platforms offering flexible bookings46158
04Which budget airlines are most reliable?35157
05Airlines known for comfortable business class33152
Top 5 of 5k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Aug vs Jul
Rising
Jetstar Airwaysscore 56.2
▲ 5.8
Booking.comscore 73.2
▲ 4.3
▲ 3.5
Falling
KAYAKscore 55.8
▼ 1.8
Airbnbscore 18.0
▼ 1.1
▼ 1.0
13 ranked brands scored in both Jul and AugIndustry avg ±2.2/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
7,258,242 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Airlines & Travel Services, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States4.5M
02United Kingdom998K
03Germany377K
04Australia345K
05Italy279K
06Canada272K
07France151K
08Japan139K
09Egypt70K
10Singapore64K
11United Arab Emirates56K
12Saudi Arabia50K
12 tracked markets

How the Models Differ

Same industry, 4 verdicts
AI Mode
60 of 120 brands visible
01 Qatar Airways75.7
02 Expedia Group74.7
03 Expedia74.4
04 HK Express72.1
05 Skyscanner71.5
ChatGPT
62 of 120 brands visible
01 Expedia Group77.7
02 Trip.com76.3
03 Qatar Airways75.5
04 ANA75.1
05 KAYAK74.5
Copilot
63 of 120 brands visible
01 HK Express77.0
02 Skyscanner77.0
03 Qatar Airways76.8
04 Jetstar Airways76.0
05 Scoot75.6
Perplexity
58 of 120 brands visible
01 Expedia80.4
02 ANA79.1
03 Qatar Airways78.9
04 Jetstar Airways78.0
05 Skyscanner77.7
This edition

What Changed This Month

Qatar Airways leads Airlines & Travel Services this edition with a visibility score of 76.7, ahead of ANA at 74.7.

youtube.com is the most-cited source grounding airlines & travel services answers, at roughly 5.9% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 15.7% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked airlines & travel services brands is 47.2, and a score above 38.4 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We execute these prompts across different models, including GPT, Perplexity, AI Mode, and more, and across different regions. This allows us to map model understand exactly "how they think" in each market.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains; the specific sources the models cite giving you a causal link between source authority and brand visibility.

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Qatar Airways currently leads AI search visibility in airlines & travel services with a Goodie visibility score of 76.7, measured across the tracked AI models.

youtube.com is the most-cited source in airlines & travel services AI answers, grounding roughly 5.9% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked airlines & travel services brands is 47.2. A score above 38.4 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.