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Airlines (US)

Cycle 2026-08-01run #74

The Airlines (US) AI-visibility leaderboard ranks 12 brands by how often Perplexity, ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic) and Gemini (Google) mention and recommend them across a fixed panel of realistic buyer questions, re-measured every monthly cycle. Delta Air Lines currently leads with a global visibility score of 44.1.

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Movers

No statistically significant movement since the last run — all 12 tracked brands are stable within their confidence intervals. Muted hollow arrows in the standings below show drift that stayed within statistical noise.

Standings

#BrandGlobal scorePer model
1Delta Air Lines44.1 ±2.5△ +1.1
perplexity41
openai-search41
openai41
google-search52
anthropic40
google58
2△1United Airlines31.4 ±2.4△ +1.2
perplexity26
openai-search25
openai29
google-search40
anthropic29
google42
3▽1Southwest Airlines30.0 ±2.5▽ −0.9
perplexity26
openai-search29
openai30
google-search35
anthropic31
google32
4Spirit Airlines25.9 ±2.3▽ −0.1
perplexity18
openai-search23
openai26
google-search25
anthropic27
google29
5△2American Airlines24.8 ±2.0△ +1.0
perplexity25
openai-search21
openai23
google-search32
anthropic20
google31
6Alaska Airlines24.1 ±2.2△ +0.2
perplexity25
openai-search20
openai24
google-search25
anthropic19
google26
7△1Breeze Airways23.9 ±1.3△ +0.7
perplexity23
openai-search26
openai26
google-search17
anthropic26
google17
8▽3JetBlue23.1 ±2.4▽ −2.4
perplexity23
openai-search23
openai22
google-search28
anthropic22
google26
9△1Frontier Airlines17.7 ±1.6▽ −0.4
perplexity20
openai-search17
openai17
google-search21
anthropic17
google21
10▽1Hawaiian Airlines16.6 ±3.3▽ −2.9
perplexity15
openai-search22
openai16
google-search16
anthropic21
google17
11Allegiant Air15.3 ±2.6▽ −0.1
perplexity15
openai-search13
openai16
google-search15
anthropic17
google14
12Sun Country Airlines13.5 ±1.7△ +0.2
perplexity14
openai-search10
openai13
google-search13
anthropic13
google16

What the AIs cite

The domains search-backed assistants relied on when answering this industry's questions (2026-08-01). Getting featured on these is the most direct lever on AI visibility.

DomainAnswers citing it
reddit.com258
youtube.com200
facebook.com198
thepointsguy.com115
nerdwallet.com107
vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com94
skyscanner.com64
businessinsider.com56
kayak.com55
alternativeairlines.com53

Head-to-head: Delta Air Lines vs United Airlines · Delta Air Lines vs Southwest Airlines · United Airlines vs Southwest Airlines

Global score = market-share-weighted blend of per-model visibility scores (0–100). Methodology

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