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Industry Report

Regional Airlines

Small to mid-sized carriers operating short-haul flights that feed passengers into larger carrier networks, often using turboprops or regional jets.

Brands tracked: 38
Brands analyzed: 38
Last updated: 2026-04-23
Model: OpenAI GPT-5
Prompts: 293
Total responses: 1,505
Top Brand Overall?
SkyWest Airlines
50/100

Highest overall AI Visibility Score in this industry.

LBA Leader?
Delta Air Lines
97

Highest score on the LBA metric in this industry.

Authority Leader?
United Airlines
24

Highest score on the Authority metric in this industry.

TOM Leader?
SkyWest Airlines
92

Highest score on the TOM metric in this industry.

Regional Airlines is a highly fragmented category in AI responses

Even the top-ranked brand (SkyWest Airlines at 50/100) is mentioned inconsistently when users ask AI assistants about Regional Airlines. Only 1 brand in this category scored above 40. Categories often land here for two reasons: the space is dominated by local or niche players no single AI model has strong training on, or it's a services-heavy category (agencies, consultants) where AI assistants tend not to name specific brands regardless of reputation.

Brand Leaderboard All 38 Regional Airlines brands ranked

Ranked by overall AI Visibility Score (smoothed geometric mean of LBA, Authority, and TOM with an LBA-based floor on Authority and TOM, see methodology). Click any brand for the full report.

# Brand LBA Authority TOM Overall
1
SkyWest Airlines
skywest.com
 63
21
92
50
2
Endeavor Air
endeavorair.com
 55
15
69
39
3
United Airlines
united.com
 84
24
27
39
4
Republic Airways
republicairways.com
 58
10
59
35
5
American Eagle
ae.com
 80
16
22
31
6
Horizon Air
horizonair.com
 64
6
55
31
7
Envoy Air
envoyair.com
 55
6
47
28
8
Alaska Airlines
alaskaair.com
 93
14
10
26
9
Loganair
loganair.co.uk
 58
6
40
26
10
PSA Airlines
psaairlines.com
 49
5
42
24
11
Delta Air Lines
delta.com
 97
10
10
23
12
J
Jazz Aviation
jazz.ca
 58
6
29
23
13
ANA
ana.co.jp
 84
8
12
22
14
Cape Air
capeair.com
 57
14
12
22
15
Qantas
qantas.com
 88
9
9
21
16
Mesa Airlines
mesa-air.com
 46
5
26
20
17
Widerøe
wideroe.no
 65
7
14
20
18
American Airlines
aa.com
 80
8
8
19
19
Bangkok Airways
bangkokair.com
 73
7
7
18
20
Rex Airlines
rex.com.au
 56
6
12
17
21
Air Wisconsin
airwis.com
 47
5
13
16
22
Air Dolomiti
airdolomiti.eu
 55
6
7
15
23
Binter Canarias
bintercanarias.com
 60
6
6
15
24
Luxair
luxair.lu
 59
6
6
15
25
Olympic Air
olympicair.com
 59
6
6
15
26
Airlink
flyairlink.com
 55
6
6
14
27
Aurigny
aurigny.com
 53
5
6
14
28
Helvetic Airways
helvetic.com
 49
5
8
14
29
Piedmont Airlines
piedmont-airlines.com
 50
5
5
13
30
Air North
flyairnorth.com
 48
5
5
12
31
E
Eastern Airways
easternairways.com
 40
4
7
12
32
F
Fuji Dream Airlines
fujidream.co.jp
 46
5
5
12
33
Alliance Airlines
allianceairlines.com.au
 43
4
4
11
34
Calm Air
calmair.com
 43
4
4
11
35
GoJet Airlines
gojetairlines.com
 30
3
9
11
36
B
Blue Islands
blueislands.com
 40
4
4
10
37
CommuteAir
commuteair.com
 38
4
4
10
38
Silver Airways
silverairways.com
 38
4
4
10

How is this calculated? Methodology

Every brand in this leaderboard is scored against the same set of 293 shared Regional Airlines prompts. The same prompts, same model, same iterations. So differences in scores reflect actual differences in AI visibility, not differences in measurement.

Overall AI Visibility Score
Smoothed geometric mean of LBA, Authority and TOM. Authority and TOM are floored at LBA × 0.1 before the geometric mean (the same floor used in the per-metric cards above, so brand cards and the composite tell the same story). Formula: composite = ((LBA + 5)(Authority + 5)(TOM + 5))^(1/3) - 5. The floor keeps brands the model clearly recognises but doesn't yet recommend from collapsing to zero, while a single genuinely weak metric still pulls the composite down. Full methodology.
Shared industry prompts
For Authority and TOM, all brands in the industry are scored against the same 293 category prompts (e.g. "best SEO tools for agencies"). This makes brand-to-brand comparisons valid - everyone faces identical inputs. LBA prompts are per-brand because they ask brand-specific questions.
Latent Brand Association (LBA)
5 brand probes + 1 control prompt, each run 5 times in recall mode (no web search). LBA = quality × meta × stability × share × recognition × 100. Read the full LBA methodology →
LLM Authority
50 organic category prompts (discovery, comparison, problem and transactional intents), each run once in recall mode and once in retrieval mode. Score = frequency × log-decayed prominence × intent weight, then 50/50 averaged across the two modes. Read the full Authority methodology →
Top of Mind (TOM)
15 high-volume discovery prompts (sourced from Keywords Everywhere search-volume data), each run 5 times in pure recall mode (no web). Score = frequency × (0.5 + 0.5 × log-prominence), volume-weighted. Read the full TOM methodology →