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Leading Airlines & Travel Services Brands in AI Search

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only ChatGPT answers.

August 2026 edition

Across the six months through August 2026, Expedia Group leads AI search visibility in Airlines & Travel Services on ChatGPT with a Goodie visibility score of 77.7, ahead of Trip.com (76.3) and Qatar Airways (75.5). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 74.0. The most-cited source grounding these answers is shopback.com.au at 3.6% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 16.4%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

August 2026 · Airlines & Travel Services · ChatGPT
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
74.0
Half of the 10 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 72.8
Score to enter the top 10
Fewer than ten brands are ranked in this category, so there is no top-ten bar to report yet.
Brands named per answer
7.4
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.4
Citation mix
  • UGC 7%
  • Editorial 5%
  • Reference 7%
  • Other 81%
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
16.4%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 24.2%
Industry sentiment
82/100
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
10 ranked here · 401 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
01Expedia Group
77.7
10.5%ChatGPT▼ 2.984timesofindia.indiatimes.com
02Trip.com
76.3
10.3%ChatGPT83au.trustpilot.com
03Qatar Airways
75.5
10.2%ChatGPT83businessclasssignal.com
04ANA
75.1
10.2%ChatGPT83airlineratings.com
05KAYAK
74.5
10.1%ChatGPT▼ 2.382reddit.com
06EasyJet Holidays
73.5
10.0%ChatGPT82timeout.com
07Booking.com
72.8
9.9%ChatGPT81au.trustpilot.com
08Airbnb
71.8
9.7%ChatGPT▼ 4.681booking.com
09Singapore Airlines
71.7
9.7%ChatGPT▲ 4.981businessclasssignal.com
10Cathay Pacific
68.9
9.3%ChatGPT▲ 4.279airlineratings.com
10 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
01shopback.com.au
3.6%
02au.trustpilot.com
2.7%
03reddit.com
2.5%
▼ 0.9
04wikipedia.org
2.5%
05expedia.com
2.3%
06trustpilot.com
2.2%
07businessclasssignal.com
2.1%
08airlineratings.com
2.0%
▲ 2.7
09timeout.com
1.9%
10booking.com
1.8%
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
01Flight booking apps travelers rely on1939
02Which budget airlines are most reliable?2733
03Travel platforms offering flexible bookings1731
04Airlines known for comfortable business class1923
05Online travel agencies with good customer support2221
Top 5 of 5k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Aug vs Jul
Rising
▲ 4.9
Cathay Pacificscore 68.9
▲ 4.2
Falling
Airbnbscore 71.8
▼ 4.6
Expedia Groupscore 77.7
▼ 2.9
KAYAKscore 74.5
▼ 2.3
5 ranked brands scored in both Jul and AugIndustry avg ±3.8/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
4,539,924 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Airlines & Travel Services, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States2.6M
02United Kingdom695K
03Germany252K
04Australia225K
05Canada194K
06Italy185K
07France107K
08Japan78K
09Egypt46K
10Singapore42K
11United Arab Emirates37K
12Saudi Arabia33K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Expedia Group leads Airlines & Travel Services this edition with a visibility score of 77.7, ahead of Trip.com at 76.3.

shopback.com.au is the most-cited source grounding airlines & travel services answers, at roughly 3.6% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 16.4% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked airlines & travel services brands is 74.0, and a score above 52.5 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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Expedia Group currently leads AI search visibility in airlines & travel services with a Goodie visibility score of 77.7, measured across the tracked AI models.

shopback.com.au is the most-cited source in airlines & travel services AI answers, grounding roughly 3.6% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked airlines & travel services brands is 74.0. A score above 52.5 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.