Popularity ranking · South Africa

The 100 most popular Airlines in South Africa

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest airlines in South Africa, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 201 airlines tracked in South Africa, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. South African Airways, Emirates and Qatar Airways lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 2M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 56k, and the largest, South African Airways, reaches around 884k people in South Africa. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with each airline, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across South Africa and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in South Africa. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in South Africa, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in South Africa. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 qantas airways 47k 42.5 39.2% Airline
27 Japan Airlines 41k 37.0 53.5% Airline
28 Air Canada 34k 37.5 44.3% Airline
29 AirAsia 33k 36.6 49.4% Airline
30 Star Alliance 33k 40.5 46.8% Airline
31 Delta Air Lines 33k 33.1 51.0% Airline
32 Thai Airways 33k 36.4 52.9% Airline
33 Bangkok Airways 32k 35.6 52.1% Airline
34 All Nippon Airways 31k 36.8 56.7% Airline
35 Ryanair 31k 35.0 52.0% Airline
36 Peach (airline) 30k 29.2 100.0% Airline
37 Vietnam Airlines 29k 44.0 49.8% Airline
38 Firefly (airline) 27k 31.6 92.9% Airline
39 EgyptAir 25k 35.8 48.0% Airline
40 Norse Atlantic Airways 21k 41.0 53.5% Airline
41 JetBlue 19k 33.9 49.5% Airline
42 Korean Air 18k 36.8 50.6% Airline
43 Scoot 18k 27.1 43.3% Airline
44 Vueling 16k 45.2 61.1% Airline
45 Alaska Airlines 16k 35.0 46.2% Airline
46 Garuda Indonesia 16k 39.1 49.1% Airline
47 Momondo 15k 32.2 68.8% Airline
48 Swiss International Air Lines 15k 40.4 43.5% Airline
49 China Airlines 14k 35.7 42.7% Airline
50 SkyTeam 14k 44.2 51.2% Airline

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular airlines compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa and ranks each airline by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest airline in South Africa?

South African Airways currently leads with an estimated audience of 884k people in South Africa.

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