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Leading Airlines & Travel Services Brands in AI Search

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

August 2026 edition

Across the six months through August 2026, Expedia leads AI search visibility in Airlines & Travel Services on Perplexity with a Goodie visibility score of 80.4, ahead of ANA (79.1) and Qatar Airways (78.9). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 77.5. The most-cited source grounding these answers is wowfare.com at 5.0% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 14.2%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

August 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
77.5
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 74.5
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
8.4
A typical answer names eight brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 7.7
Citation mix
  • UGC 8%
  • Editorial 6%
  • Video 4%
  • Other 82%
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
14.2%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 24.2%
Industry sentiment
84/100
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
80.4
10.4%Perplexity▲ 12.785portotheme.com
02ANA
79.1
10.2%Perplexity▲ 6.785onemileatatime.com
03Qatar Airways
78.9
10.2%Perplexity▲ 6.784onemileatatime.com
04Jetstar Airways
78.0
10.0%Perplexity▲ 16.384eskimo.travel
05Skyscanner
77.7
10.0%Perplexity84going.com
06Trip.com
77.3
10.0%Perplexity84perk.com
07HK Express
77.1
9.9%Perplexity84eskimo.travel
08Singapore Airlines
76.5
9.9%Perplexity▲ 4.883onemileatatime.com
09Booking.com
76.4
9.8%Perplexity▲ 15.483portotheme.com
10KAYAK
75.4
9.7%Perplexity83portotheme.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
01wowfare.com
5.0%
▲ 4.5
02blackjet.com
5.0%
▲ 2.7
03reddit.com
3.9%
▲ 1.8
04youtube.com
3.4%
05medium.com
3.2%
▲ 0.9
06blacklane.com
2.7%
▲ 1.8
07forbes.com
2.3%
08f6s.com
2.3%
▲ 0.9
09airlineratings.com
2.2%
10linkedin.com
2.2%
▲ 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 on2756
02Online travel agencies with good customer support1639
03Airlines known for comfortable business class1837
04Which budget airlines are most reliable?1830
05Travel platforms offering flexible bookings1129
Top 5 of 5k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Aug vs Jul
Rising
Jetstar Airwaysscore 78.0
▲ 16.3
Booking.comscore 76.4
▲ 15.4
Expediascore 80.4
▲ 12.7
Falling

No falling brands this month.

6 ranked brands scored in both Jul and AugIndustry avg ±10.4/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
136,609 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Airlines & Travel Services, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States100K
02United Kingdom20K
03Germany4K
04Australia3K
05Italy3K
06Canada2K
07Japan1K
08France1K
09Egypt679
10Singapore627
11United Arab Emirates544
12Saudi Arabia509
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Expedia leads Airlines & Travel Services this edition with a visibility score of 80.4, ahead of ANA at 79.1.

wowfare.com is the most-cited source grounding airlines & travel services answers, at roughly 5.0% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 14.2% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked airlines & travel services brands is 77.5, 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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FAQ · Airlines & Travel Services

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Expedia currently leads AI search visibility in airlines & travel services with a Goodie visibility score of 80.4, measured across the tracked AI models.

wowfare.com is the most-cited source in airlines & travel services AI answers, grounding roughly 5.0% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked airlines & travel services brands is 77.5. 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.