What counts as a Airlines & Travel stock?

Carriers, cruise lines, hotels and the booking platforms that sell them — one demand cycle running through four very different business models, from capital-heavy fleets to asset-light marketplaces. Membership is curated and hand-maintained: a company earns the tag when the theme is a material driver of its business — either a pure-play, or a larger company for which the theme is a named, reported growth engine. Tangential exposure doesn't qualify. The names below are those in our US universe, ranked by score.

How are the best Airlines & Travel stocks ranked?

Each name is scored on the Bull Rankings quality-growth model — one 0–100 score blending business quality, growth, and valuation — the same score used everywhere on the site. The table ranks them highest first.

How often is the ranking updated?

The universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the ranking reflects the latest fundamentals and prices.

AIRLINES & TRAVEL · scores as of Aug 7, 2026

Best Airlines & Travel stocks.

The theme: Carriers, cruise lines, hotels and the booking platforms that sell them — one demand cycle running through four very different business models, from capital-heavy fleets to asset-light marketplaces.

How this ranking works

Standard classifications describe what a company files as, not what it's a bet on. This is a curated list of the Airlines & Travel names in our US universe: the pure-plays, plus the larger companies for which Airlines & Travel is a real, reported driver rather than a passing mention. Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site (how it's built), and re-scores every trading day.

#	Ticker	Company	Score
1	EXPETravel & Leisure	Expedia Group, Inc.	67.7
2	BKNGTravel & Leisure	Booking Holdings Inc.	63.2
3	DALTransportation & Logistics	Delta Air Lines, Inc.	61.9
4	NCLHTravel & Leisure	Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.	57.7
5	CCLTravel & Leisure	Carnival Corporation Ltd.	56.0
6	AALTransportation & Logistics	American Airlines Group Inc.	55.6
7	LUVTransportation & Logistics	Southwest Airlines Co.	54.4
8	ABNBTravel & Leisure	Airbnb, Inc.	51.9
9	RCLTravel & Leisure	Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.	51.3
10	HTravel & Leisure	Hyatt Hotels Corporation	48.8
11	HLTTravel & Leisure	Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.	47.0
12	UALTransportation & Logistics	United Airlines Holdings, Inc.	44.5
13	MARTravel & Leisure	Marriott International	43.7
14	ALKTransportation & Logistics	Alaska Air Group, Inc.	40.3

The Airlines & Travel group at a glance

Where these companies are filed

The 14 members report under 3 different industries, which is exactly why no standard sector view groups them:

Travel Services6
Airlines5
Lodging3

What kind of businesses these are

Average pillar scores across the 14 scored members, against every stock the model scores:

Pillar	Airlines & Travel	Market	Read
Quality	63.3	56.0	7.3 above
Growth	50.0	61.7	11.7 below
Value	51.0	44.1	6.9 above

Pillars run 0–100 against sector peers. A low Value reading means the group is expensive relative to what it earns, not that the businesses are weak — for an early-stage theme that is the normal shape.

Scores across the group run from EXPE at 67.7 down to ALK at 40.3, with a median of 53.2. A theme is a thesis, not a quality filter — membership says a company is exposed to Airlines & Travel, and the score says what the model makes of the business.

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