No airline holds more than 9.9% of the AI shelf for airline questions.

Four AI models answered 15 buyer questions about airlines. They made 334 choices across 67 brands. The largest single holding is 33 choices, or 9.9% of the shelf.

The AI Shelf — audited brands in colour, every other brand in a stepped grey.

No airline owns the AI answer in this category. This is the first ARA reading of airlines. It sets the baseline for every later quarter.

TOP LEARNING 01

The AI models never name Ethiopian Airlines, Iberia, SAS or Swiss in any answer.

ARA audited all four brands. The four AI models never named any of them, at any position. A buyer does not see these four names in any answer ARA collected.

TOP LEARNING 02

31 of the 67 airlines on the shelf share 13% of it.

The models name 18 brands exactly once. Those brands hold 5% of all choices. The models name 13 brands exactly twice. Those brands hold 8%. Together these 31 brands hold 13% of the shelf.

TOP LEARNING 03

EVA Air is the most-named airline outside the audited set, with 7 choices.

The 30 audited brands hold 75.7% of all choices. Brands outside that set hold the rest. EVA Air leads them with 7 choices. Frontier Airlines and Wizz Air follow with 5 each.