Airline Generative Engine Optimization Explained: What Every Aviation Marketer Must Know

About this episode

This episode explores Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and its implications for airline marketing and digital strategy through an interview with David Minorics.

This episode closes out the 2025 Diggintravel Podcast season with a deep dive into one of the topics that kept coming up in our Airline Leaders Series conversations: Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). After a year of interviews with airline CMOs, CDOs, and digital leaders in partnership with 815Labs, we wanted to switch gears and dig into a very specific subject that sits high on many airline agendas and that many of you asked us to explore in more detail. For this episode, I traveled to Budapest to sit down with David Minorics, Business Development Director at Mito Performance. Through Mito’s airline-focused branch 815Labs, David has worked on numerous airline digital marketing and SEO projects and is now leading GEO pilots and initiatives for airlines and other travel brands. In this episode, we talk about: What Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is and how it differs from traditional SEO Why GEO is about being recommended by AI, not just being found How AI-powered search synthesizes information and what query fan-out means in practice The key elements of the GEO playbook for airlines How airlines can benchmark GEO visibility and sentiment What GEO metrics and KPIs…

People in this episode

Host: Iztok Franko

Guest: David Minorics

Topics covered

• Generative Engine Optimization
• airline marketing
• AI-powered search
• digital strategy
• SEO
• airline visibility

Keywords

• Generative Engine Optimization
• GEO
• airline marketing
• AI search
• SEO
• digital strategy
• airline visibility
• KPI
• benchmarking

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mito Performance, 815Labs

Places: Budapest