The 10 airlines that were tweeted about the most in March

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Industry-wide brand searches are down 17% from January to February.

The most affected have been Bangkok Airways (-33%), China Eastern (-33%) and China Southern (-45%).

However, search volume is expected to increase by 16.5% in March.

Airline traffic and search data do not correlate with financial data because millions of people have spent many hours on airline websites and customer services changing their travel plans.

Throughout February and March, airlines have been active on social media.

We developed a sentiment analysis on Twitter to see the public's reaction to each global airline.

Coronavirus economic impact - Twitter sentiment on airlines

Based on this list and the data, every airline has had more positive tweets than negative ones except for one, Alitalia, the national airline of Italy, a country that is currently the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.

Lufthansa has had the most negative tweets.

However, Qatar has the most tweets with positive sentiment to portugal mobile database describe the company, followed by Southwest Airlines in the United States, Turkish and SAS.

Coronavirus economic impact - Positive sentiment for airlines

Seven of the airlines have received a kind of patriotic respect after posting each country's flags in emoji.

Turkish Airlines, SWISS, Polish Airlines LOT, Air Baltic, Aeroflot, Alitalia and Austrian Airlines have received a patriotic boost and great support for their national airlines.

Events
Another industry that has suffered the most due to the current climate has been the events industry.