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Leading Airlines & Travel Services Brands in AI Search

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Expedia leads AI search visibility in Airlines & Travel Services on Perplexity with a Goodie visibility score of 78.8, ahead of KAYAK (78.3) and Qatar Airways (77.7). The median score across the 12 ranked brands is 76.4, and a score above 75.9 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is sina.cn at 14.2% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 15.6%.

31k prompts · 2.4m AI answers · 11.8m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Airlines & Travel Services · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
76.4
Half of the 12 ranked airlines & travel services brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Score to enter the top 10
75.9
Clearing 75.9 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 0.5 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
7.5
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 2%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 2%
  • Other 92%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding airlines & travel services answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
15.6%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
66/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
31k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.4m
218k in October · ▼ 14.5% vs September
Citations parsed
11.8m
1m in October · ▲ 11.9% vs September
Brands observed
540
12 ranked here · 528 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Airlines & Travel Services, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentMarketsTop cited source
01Expedia
78.8
8.6%Perplexity▼ 3.66113/13perk.com
02KAYAK
78.3
8.5%Perplexity▼ 5.25811/13going.com
03Qatar Airways
77.7
8.5%Perplexity▼ 9.57813/13onemileatatime.com
04Singapore Airlines
77.2
8.4%Perplexity▼ 11.07313/13onemileatatime.com
05ANA
77.0
8.4%Perplexity▼ 7.37111/13onemileatatime.com
06Google Flights
76.6
8.3%Perplexity▼ 8.3588/13going.com
07Skyscanner
76.3
8.3%Perplexity▼ 3.76511/13going.com
08Southwest
76.2
8.3%Perplexity▼ 6.57210/13which.co.uk
09Booking.com
76.0
8.3%Perplexity▼ 10.06512/13perk.com
10Emirates
75.9
8.3%Perplexity▼ 9.2645/13onemileatatime.com
12 ranked · visibility is a six-month average · worldwide ranking requires presence in at least 5 of 13 marketsTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Airlines & Travel Services
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01sina.cn
14.2%
—
02ana.co.jp
11.8%
—
03skyscanner.it
10.9%
—
04sohu.com
10.8%
—
05jal.co.jp
8.4%
—
06verbraucherzentrale.de
8.3%
—
07skyscanner.fr
7.6%
—
08163.com
6.7%
—
09sina.com.cn
6.7%
—
10theportugalnews.com
4.4%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Airlines & Travel Services, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Travel platforms offering flexible bookings2553
02Online travel agencies with good customer support1250
03Flight booking apps travelers rely on2448
04Airlines known for comfortable business class3539
05Which budget airlines are most reliable?3134
5 of 31k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
▼ 11.0
Booking.comscore 76.0
▼ 10.0
Qatar Airwaysscore 77.7
▼ 9.5
12 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±6.7/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
70,202 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Airlines & Travel Services, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States51K
02United Kingdom11K
03Australia2K
04Germany2K
05Italy1K
06Canada1K
07Japan862
08France594
09Egypt358
10Singapore341
11United Arab Emirates287
12Saudi Arabia207
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Expedia leads Airlines & Travel Services this edition with a visibility score of 78.8, ahead of KAYAK at 78.3.

sina.cn is the most-cited source grounding airlines & travel services answers, at roughly 14.2% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 15.6% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked airlines & travel services brands is 76.4, and a score above 75.9 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

Each tracked industry has a fixed set of prompts modelled on how people actually ask about it, so one month can be compared directly with the next.

Global Model Interrogation

We run each industry's prompts across the tracked models in each market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Airlines & Travel Services

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the Answers.

Expedia currently leads AI search visibility in airlines & travel services with a Goodie visibility score of 78.8, measured across the tracked AI models.

sina.cn is the most-cited source in airlines & travel services AI answers, grounding roughly 14.2% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked airlines & travel services brands is 76.4. A score above 75.9 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.