With the waning days of summertime upon us and the chill of fall fast arriving on the Plains, it’s high time for residents of the Sunflower State to sneak in another getaway before the time is up.
Based on the digital tea leaves that are search interest scores, we can deduce that Kansans will likely opt to fly on one Dallas-based air carrier, as American Airlines is a heady favorite when it comes to the state’s favorite airline.
Overall, American Airlines beat out other “legacy” carriers like Chicago’s United Airlines and Atlanta’s Delta Airlines, in addition to “ultra-low cost carriers” like Frontier and Spirit Airlines when it came to search interest scores in Kansas.
National Aviation Day is August 19. BetKansas.com, home to all things Kansas sports betting, celebrated by using Google Trends to find the favorite airlines of Kansas residents. We ranked the top 5 airlines by search interest scores, between August 12, 2023 – August 12, 2024.
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Which Airline Do Kansas Residents Prefer Most?
With a search interest score of 76, American was far and away the top dog in Kansas, beating out United Airline’s total of 49 to take home the top spot in the Sunflower State in 2024.
United Airlines wound up at 49, while Spirit Airlines was third in Kansas at 22 and Delta finished a distant fourth, with a search interest score of 19, only beating out Denver’s Frontier Airlines, which had a score of 13 to finish fifth in Kansas.
Of the five carriers, Delta actually has the largest presence at the state’s biggest airport, with a 14.73% market share at Kansas City International Airport to rank a distant second behind Southwest Airlines, which carried 49.29% of all passengers at MCI in 2023.
At the state’s second largest airport (Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita) Delta was the largest non-regional carrier after Southwest, carrying 199,000 passengers (or 11.59% of the total amount) in 2023, while American is the lone carrier to fly to Manhattan Regional Airport, carrying 65,000 passengers in the most recent year of data available (2022).
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Christopher Boan is a lead writer at BetKansas.com specializing in covering state issues. He covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years.
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