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Largest airlines in the world

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 There are several ways to measure the size of an airline, so several different lists of the world's largest airlines are available.

World

Scheduled passengers carried of the IATA members

Rank Airline 2005
1 American Airlines 98 038 000 [1]
2 Delta Air Lines 86 007 000 [2]
3 United Airlines 66 717 000 [3]
4 Northwest Airlines 57 547 000 [4]
5 Japan Airlines 50 884 000 [5]
6 Lufthansa 48 958 000 [6]
7 All Nippon Airways 48 315 000 [7]
8 Air France 47 787 000 [8]
9 China Southern Airlines 43 228 000 [9]
10 Continental Airlines 42 777 000 [10]

Scheduled international passengers carried of the IATA members

Rank Airline 2005
1 Lufthansa 35 740 000[11]
2 British Airways 28 922 000[12]
3 Air France 28 898 000[13]
4 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 21 435 000[14]
5 American Airlines 20 659 000[15]
6 Singapore Airlines 16 618 000[16]
7 Cathay Pacific Airways 15 369 000[17]
8 Emirates 14 976 000[18]
9 Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) 13 378 000[19]
10 Alitalia 12 841 000[20]

Total scheduled passenger-kilometers flown in 2005 of the IATA members [21]

Rank Airline Passenger-kilometers (millions) Notes
1 American Airlines 222.449
2 United Airlines 183.296
3 Delta Air Lines 166.664
4 Lufthansa 122.222
5 Northwest Airlines 122.017
6 Air France 116.241
7 British Airways 110.96
8 Continental Airlines 109.32
9 Japan Airlines 94.397
10 Singapore Airlines 80.988

Total scheduled freight tonne-kilometers flown in 2005 of the IATA members[22]

Rank Airline Tonne-kilometers (millions) Notes
1 FedEx 14.408
2 United Parcel Service 9.075
3 Korean Air Lines 8.072
4 Lufthansa 7.680
5 Singapore Airlines 7.603
6 Cathay Pacific Airways 6.458
7 China Airlines 6.037
8 Air France 5.532
9 EVA Air 5.285
10 Cargolux 5.149

By fleet size in 2006

(according to respective airlines Wikipedia pages in December 2006)

Rank Airline Fleet size Notes
1 American Airlines 685
2 Lufthansa 534 Including Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo, Lufthansa CityLine, Air Dolomiti, Eurowings+Germanwings, Augsburg Airways, Contact Air and Swiss International Air Lines
3 Northwest Airlines 513
4 Southwest Airlines 477
5 Delta Air Lines 470
6 United Air Lines 460
7 DHL 420
8 FedEx 403
9 SkyWest Inc. 400 Including SkyWest and Atlantic Southeast Airlines
10 Air France-KLM 397 Including Transavia
11 Continental Airlines 366
12 US Airways 357 Including America West
13 Air Canada 337 Including Air Canada Jazz fleet
14 SAS Group 290 Including airBaltic, Blue1, SAS Braathens, Scandinavian Airlines, Spanair and Wideroe.
15 United Parcel Service 284
16 British Airways 234
17 China Southern Airlines 235
18 Japan Airlines 232
19 Iberia Airlines 230 Including Air Nostrum
20 Air China 198

Africa

Airline Passengers and revenue ($)Template:Fn Year ended Source
Total Revenue Profit
South African Airways 6,500,000 31 Mar 2006 [23]
EgyptAir 6,500,000 21 JAN 2007 [24][25]
Royal Air Maroc 3 252 490     Sep 2005 [26]
Kenya Airways 2,400,000 733,000,000 67,000,000 31 Mar 2006 [27][28]
Ethiopian Airlines 1,500,000     31 Mar 2006 [29]

Asia

Airline Scheduled passengers carriedTemplate:Fn Year ended Source
Total International Domestic
Japan Airlines GroupTemplate:Fn 58,036,381 14,187,626 43,848,755 31 Mar 2006 [30]
All Nippon Airways GroupTemplate:Fn 50,542,149 4,430,455 46,111,694 30 Nov 2006 [31]
China Southern Airlines 49,202,280     31 Dec 2006 [32]
Air China 31,493,800 6,245,900Template:Fn 25,247,900 31 Dec 2006 [33]
China Eastern Airlines 24,285,140 6,081,590Template:Fn 18,203,550 31 Dec 2005 [34]
Korean Air 21,708,822 11,238,140 10,470,682 31 Dec 2005 [35]
Thai Airways International 18,607,170     30 Nov 2006 [36]
Singapore Airlines 18,022,000 18,022,000 NA 31 Dec 2006 [37]
Malaysia Airlines 17,910,000 9,175,000 8,734,000 31 Mar 2006 [38]
Saudi Arabian Airlines 17,571,443     31 Dec 2006 [39]
Cathay Pacific 16,727,757 16,727,757 NATemplate:Fn 31 Dec 2006 [40]
Emirates 14,497,536 14,497,536   31 Mar 2006 [41]
Air Asia GroupTemplate:Fn 12,106,823     31 Dec 2006 [42]
Asiana Airlines 11,907,673 6,780,595 5,127,078 31 Mar 2006 [43]
China Airlines 9,731,000     31 Dec 2005 [44]
Philippine Airlines 9,000,000     31 Dec 2006 [45]
Jet Airways 9,000,000     31 Dec 2005 [46]
Garuda Indonesia 8,679,443     31 Dec 2005 [47]
Indian Template:Fn 7,500,000     31 Dec 2005 [48]
Air Asia 7,400,953     31 Dec 2006 [49]
EVA Air 6,126,766     30 Nov 2006 [50]
Pakistan International Airlines 5,499,000     31 Dec 2005 [51]
Dragonair 5,476,501 5,476,501 NATemplate:Fn 31 Dec 2006 [52]
Air India 4,860,000     31 Mar 2006 [53]
Vietnam Airlines 4,070,303 1,785,786 2,284,517 31 Dec 2002 [54]
El Al 3,593,000Template:Fn     31 Dec 2005 [55]
Cebu Pacific 3,500,000 NA NA 31 Dec 2006 [56]
Thai-AirAsia 2,976,798     31 Dec 2006 [57]
Air Macau 2,360,300 2,360,300 NATemplate:Fn 30 Nov 2006 [58]
Indonesia AirAsia 1,729,072     31 Dec 2006 [59]
SilkAir 1,560,000 1,560,000 NA 31 Dec 2006 [60]
Tiger Airways 1,200,000 1,200,000 NA 31 Dec 2006 [61]
Gulf Air NA NA NA NA
Notes

Europe

Total scheduled passengers carried in 2005

Rank Airline Passengers Carried (Millions) Notes
1 Air France-KLM 69.2 Template:Fn
2 Lufthansa 51.2 [62]
3 Ryanair 40.1 [63]
4 British Airways 35.5 [64] Template:Fn
5 SAS Group 36.3 [65] Template:Fn
6 easyJet 32.9 [66]
7 Iberia 27.7 [67]
8 TUI Group 25.0 [68] Template:Fn
9 Alitalia 23.9 [69]
10 Turkish Airlines 14.1 [70]
11 Air Berlin 13.3 [71]
12 Swiss International Air Lines 10.5 [72]
13 bmi 10.5 [73]
14 Austrian Airlines Group 10.1 [74] Template:Fn
15 Finnair Group 8.5 [75] Template:Fn
16 Aer Lingus 8.1 [76]
17 Aeroflot 6.8 [77]
18 TAP Portugal 6.4 [78]
19 Air One 5.6 [79]
20 flybe 5.5 [80]
21 Czech Airlines 5.2 [81]
22 Virgin Atlantic Airways 4.0 [82]
23 LOT 3.5 [83]
24 Norwegian Air Shuttle 3.3 [84]
25 SN Brussels Airlines 3.2 [85]
26 Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise 2.9 [86]
27 Malev 2.8 [87]
28 Sterling Airlines 1.9 [88]
28 Wizz Air 1.9 [89]
30 Croatia Airlines 1.5 [90]
30 Cyprus Airways 1.5 [91]
30 Icelandair 1.5 [92]
33 Adria Airways 0.9 [93]
33 JAT Airways 0.9 [94]
33 Skyways Express 0.9 [95]
36 SkyEurope 0.8 [96]
Notes

North America

United States & Canada

Number of Passengers

Rank Airline 2004 2000
1 Delta Air Lines 83 200 000 101 809 397
2 American Airlines 82 500 000 77 185 377
3 Southwest Airlines 81 100 000 72 708 812
4 United Airlines 64 900 000 77 659 872
5 Northwest Airlines 49 800 000 52 565 686
6 US Airways 40 000 000 58 251 488
7 Continental Airlines 35 700 000 40 988 828
8 Air Canada 31 500 000
9 America West Airlines 20 700 000 19 710 949
10 Alaska Airlines 15 100 000 12 705 704
11 SkyWest Airlines 13 400 000
12 AirTran Airways 13 100 000 7 546 367
13 JetBlue Airways 11 800 000
14 ATA Airlines 10 000 000 7 018 470
15 Hawaiian Airlines 5 600 000 6 235 066
16 Westjet 5 000 000
17 Atlantic Southeast 3 800 000
18 Midwest Airlines 2 900 000 (including Midwest Connect) 2 208 049
19 Air Transat 2 800 000
20 Independence Air 2 700 000(including Delta Connection flights)
21 Comair 2 500 000
22 American Eagle 1 900 000 11 625 755
23 SkyWest 400 000
24 Trans World Airlines 25 591 960
25 Aloha Airlines 5 175 510
26 Frontier Airlines 2 892 792
  • Based on Bureau of Transportation Statistics 2004 Domestic Data and DOT Enplaned passenger data.

Latin America

Current fleet size

Current destinations number

2005 passenger carried

References

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