AI Brand Chart: Domestic airlines, latest edition 2026-w42
4 AI models, 45 buying scenarios, edition 2026-w42, data as of October 16, 2026.
Brand names only: the models saw each option as a brand name, with no product facts, and answered from their own knowledge.
Fast panel: the fast or small current models of each vendor, not the full flagship panel.
beta: intervals not small-sample calibrated
Tiers, not strict ranks
How to read this
A position is only the order of the estimates, and arrows show how that order moved since the last edition: brands in one tier cannot be told apart from its leader at 95% confidence, and each rank is an interval. Rails show the conditional pick share (among answers that picked a brand) in shortlists of 4 (chance is 25%).
Changed beyond noise: for this brand alone, the 95% interval of its share change excludes 0. Lineup or panel changes between editions can cause it too, and it is never a rank claim.
Display order since the last edition, not strict ranks. Moves without a badge are within the margin.
- 1NewSouthwest AirlinesNew on the chart in this edition.51% (37%–65%)1 week
- 2NewDelta Air LinesNew on the chart in this edition.50% (36%–65%)1 week
- 3NewJetBlueNew on the chart in this edition.37% (25%–< 50%)1 week
- 4NewAlaska AirlinesNew on the chart in this edition.32% (20%–46%)1 week
- 5NewUnited AirlinesNew on the chart in this edition.24% (12%–37%)1 week
- 6NewAmerican AirlinesNew on the chart in this edition.16% (7%–28%)1 week
- 7NewAllegiant AirNew on the chart in this edition.11% (3%–25%)1 week
- 8NewFrontier AirlinesNew on the chart in this edition.10% (2%–23%)1 week
- 9NewBreeze AirwaysNew on the chart in this edition.8% (2%–18%)1 week
- 10NewAvelo AirlinesNew on the chart in this edition.8% (1%–19%)1 week