Market cut · Italy

Leading Airlines & Travel Services Brands in AI Search in Italy

The Airlines & Travel Services index re-ranked using only prompts and answers from Italy.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Expedia leads AI search visibility in Airlines & Travel Services in Italy with a Goodie visibility score of 75.3, ahead of Qatar Airways (73.8) and Skyscanner (73.0). The median score across the 16 ranked brands is 53.9, and a score above 37.5 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is youtube.com at 7.6% 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 · Italy
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
53.9
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 72.2
Score to enter the top 10
37.5
Clearing 37.5 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 16.5 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
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 7%
  • Editorial 3%
  • 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. “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
68/100
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
16 ranked here · 524 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
01Expedia
75.3
10.3%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 2.151booking.com
02Qatar Airways
73.8
10.1%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.281airlineratings.com
03Skyscanner
73.0
10.0%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.264going.com
04Singapore Airlines
72.4
9.9%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.179airlineratings.com
05Booking.com
55.5
7.6%AI ModeCopilotPerplexity▲ 0.956booking.com
06ANA
54.8
7.5%AI ModeChatGPTPerplexity▲ 0.577businessclasssignal.com
07KAYAK
54.4
7.5%ChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 0.358going.com
08Google Flights
54.0
7.4%AI ModeChatGPTPerplexity▲ 2.560going.com
09Hopper
53.9
7.4%AI ModeChatGPTCopilot▲ 0.167going.com
10Southwest
37.5
5.1%AI ModePerplexity—77reddit.com
16 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
01youtube.com
7.6%
—
02airadvisor.com
6.7%
—
03facebook.com
6.4%
—
04navan.com
5.5%
—
05skyscanner.it
4.8%
—
06upgradedpoints.com
4.5%
—
07cirium.com
4.5%
—
08reddit.com
4.5%
▲ 4.1
09instagram.com
3.9%
—
10simpleflying.com
3.8%
—
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
01Which budget airlines are most reliable?88227
02Online travel agencies with good customer support65219
03Travel platforms offering flexible bookings67168
04Airlines known for comfortable business class72161
05Se il volo va storto, quale sito di viaggi ti risponde?214
5 of 31k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Google Flightsscore 54.0
▲ 2.5
Qatar Airwaysscore 73.8
▲ 1.2
Skyscannerscore 73.0
▲ 1.2
Falling
Trip.comscore 18.3
▼ 2.6
Expediascore 75.3
▼ 2.1
▼ 1.1
12 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±1.2/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
3,696,310 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Airlines & Travel Services, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States2.2M
02United Kingdom548K
03Australia194K
04Germany170K
05Canada143K
06Italy141K
07France84K
08Japan80K
09Egypt37K
10Singapore35K
11United Arab Emirates30K
12Saudi Arabia21K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Expedia leads Airlines & Travel Services this edition with a visibility score of 75.3, ahead of Qatar Airways at 73.8.

youtube.com is the most-cited source grounding airlines & travel services answers, at roughly 7.6% 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 53.9, and a score above 37.5 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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Expedia currently leads AI search visibility in airlines & travel services with a Goodie visibility score of 75.3, measured across the tracked AI models.

youtube.com is the most-cited source in airlines & travel services AI answers, grounding roughly 7.6% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked airlines & travel services brands is 53.9. A score above 37.5 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.