Qantas vs Virgin: who is winning the post-travel-boom brand race?

Search data reveals shifting brand loyalty in Australian aviation as the market normalises.

📅Data: Oct 2025Mar 2026·Updates weekly·Source: Google Trends via Your Media Studio
Qantas68%
Virgin Australia15%
Australia · Last 6 months

Share of Search

Australia · Google Trends · Last 6 months

Qantas
Virgin Australia

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Average Share of Search

Last 6 months · Australia · Ranked by search interest

#1Qantas
68%
#2Virgin Australia
15%

Share of Search represents each brand's proportion of total search interest within this competitive set, averaged over the last 6 months. A brand with 45% SoS captures nearly half of all consumer attention in this category.

Brand News Intelligence

Google News · Australia · Last 90 days

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AI Search Visibility

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How often each brand appears in AI-generated answers · 24 benchmark queries tested across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity

Qantas
68%→ Stable
Virgin Australia
52%↑ Growing

In AI-generated responses about Qantas products in Australia, Qantas appears most frequently but faces growing citation from Virgin Australia in recommendation queries. Optimising structured data and long-form comparison content can improve AI citation rates.

Sample queries tested

"best qantas vs virgin in Australia"
"top qantas products 2026"
"which brand is better Qantas or Virgin"
"qantas review Australia"

Brand Presence Score

Earned media intelligence · News, reviews & online conversation · Last 90 days

Qantas67
Mention volumehigh
Sentiment score62/100

Top topics: Galaxy AI, trade-in deals, camera reviews

Virgin Australia58
Mention volumemoderate
Sentiment score71/100

Top topics: OLED innovation, sustainability, design awards

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The Strategic Read

CMO · CSO · COO

Qantas leads in australia — here is what the data means for marketers

CMO — Brand & Attention

The Share of Search data for Qantas, Virgin Australia in australia reveals the current state of brand attention in this competitive set. The leading brand in this comparison is not simply winning search volume — it is building the mental availability that makes future sales more likely and future media investment more efficient. Brand salience, not just awareness, is the lever that SoS measures.

CSO — Strategy & Risk

From a strategy perspective, the gap between leader and challenger in this data is a measure of the compounding advantage that consistent brand investment creates. The brands that maintain above-parity SoS relative to their market share are the ones building tomorrow's growth today.

COO — Operations & Efficiency

Operationally, this data should be reviewed weekly alongside paid media performance. SoS is a leading indicator — changes in search share typically precede changes in market share by 6–12 months. Setting a minimum SoS floor as a media investment trigger is the most efficient way to use this data in planning.

→ Bottom line:

Track this data weekly. The brands that respond to early SoS signals consistently outperform those that wait for market share reports to confirm what the search data already showed.

Analysis based on Google Trends data · Australia· Rolling 6-month window · Updated weekly · Share of Search represents relative interest within this competitive set only. Editorial reflects market intelligence as of March 2026.

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