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Leading Airlines & Travel Services Brands in AI Search in China

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Skyscanner leads AI search visibility in Airlines & Travel Services on Perplexity in China with a Goodie visibility score of 75.7, ahead of Qatar Airways (74.4) and Expedia (73.1). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 72.8, and a score above 70.5 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 13.3%.

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
72.8
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 73.0
Score to enter the top 10
70.5
Clearing 70.5 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 2.3 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
8.8
A typical answer names nine brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.1
Citation mix
  • UGC 4%
  • Editorial 1%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 1%
  • 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
13.3%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
69/100
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
10 ranked here · 530 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 monthSentimentTop cited source
01Skyscanner
75.7
10.4%Perplexity—64activetraveladventures.com
02Qatar Airways
74.4
10.2%Perplexity▲ 9.580awardfares.com
03Expedia
73.1
10.1%Perplexity▲ 2.750activetraveladventures.com
04Southwest
73.1
10.0%Perplexity▲ 0.376thepointsguy.com
05Singapore Airlines
72.9
10.0%Perplexity▲ 6.872awardfares.com
06Trip.com
72.6
10.0%Perplexity—63activetraveladventures.com
07Hopper
72.5
10.0%Perplexity—65activetraveladventures.com
08Booking.com
71.8
9.9%Perplexity▲ 4.269activetraveladventures.com
09Agoda
70.8
9.7%Perplexity—69hotelminder.com
10ANA
70.5
9.7%Perplexity▲ 8.979awardfares.com
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop 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%
—
02sohu.com
10.8%
—
03163.com
6.7%
—
04sina.com.cn
6.7%
—
05youtube.com
3.7%
—
06qq.com
3.3%
—
07tidenews.com.cn
3.3%
—
08worldairlineawards.com
3.3%
—
09going.com
3.0%
▲ 6.5
10thepointsguy.com
3.0%
▲ 3.1
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
01Flight booking apps travelers rely on3037
02Airlines known for comfortable business class3037
03Travel platforms offering flexible bookings2328
04Which budget airlines are most reliable?3127
05大家订机票真的在用哪个 App?821
5 of 31k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Qatar Airwaysscore 74.4
▲ 9.5
ANAscore 70.5
▲ 8.9
▲ 6.8
Falling

No falling brands this month.

6 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±5.4/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

Skyscanner leads Airlines & Travel Services this edition with a visibility score of 75.7, ahead of Qatar Airways at 74.4.

sina.cn is the most-cited source grounding airlines & travel services answers, at roughly 14.2% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 13.3% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked airlines & travel services brands is 72.8, and a score above 70.5 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 run these prompts across the tracked models and across every 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.

Skyscanner currently leads AI search visibility in airlines & travel services with a Goodie visibility score of 75.7, 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 72.8. A score above 70.5 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.