Booked before take-off.
Senior-led paid media, technical SEO and AI search for airports, built to sell parking, lounges, fast track and routes directly to passengers.
Built for airports.
An airport earns from more than flights. Car parking, lounges, fast track and hotels are sold to passengers who are already travelling, and third-party resellers and comparison sites compete for the same bookings. Route launches and seasonal schedules add fixed dates the advertising has to meet.
The work here sells those products directly. Search and social campaigns target passengers by route, date and product, bookings are tracked from the first click to the confirmed booking, and parking, lounge, route and terminal pages are built so search engines and AI assistants can read prices, times and directions.
What an airport engagement covers.
- Parking, lounge and fast track booking campaigns
- Route launch and destination campaigns
- Booking and revenue tracking
- Brand search campaigns that compete with resellers' ads
- Paid social for passengers in your catchment
- Technical SEO for parking, route and terminal pages
- AI search visibility for travel planning
One senior mind, audit to invoice.
One senior operator runs the campaigns and the measurement, so budget follows the products and routes that produce bookings and revenue rather than clicks.
Each booking is tied to the campaign that produced it, so spend on parking, lounges and routes is judged on the revenue it brings in directly.
How the sector reads to AI.
In the Crane Index scan of 1 October 2026, the UK Airports benchmark scored the websites of 22 organisations for AI readability, how well AI systems can read them. The median score was 47 out of 100. Cornwall Airport Newquay led, at 65. Read the UK Airports benchmark.
Your own site can be scored the same way, free, so you can see where it sits against the sector before any work starts. Get your Crane Index score.
Airports questions.
Resellers advertise on our name. What can be done?
In the UK, Google lets other advertisers bid on your brand name, so the practical answer is to compete for those searches with your own ads and prices. Where a reseller's ad text uses your trade mark in a way Google's trademark policy does not allow, a complaint can be filed with Google.
Can you track parking and lounge bookings back to the campaign?
Yes, where your booking system confirms the booking on your site or can pass it back. Each booking is then tied to the campaign that produced it, so budget follows revenue.
Do passengers use AI assistants to plan their trip?
Some do. When they do, the answer draws on websites it can read, including parking prices, terminal information and routes. The work makes those pages readable, and the Crane Index benchmark below shows how the sector's sites score today.
The full stack, on one desk.
Every sector engagement draws on the same four disciplines, held by one senior practitioner. Take one, or the whole stack.
Creator of the AI Readability Suite
Senior work, sector by sector.
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