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An American Airlines Boeing 777-200ER landing at London Heathrow Airport.
A Federal Express Airbus A310 taxis for takeoff at the Royal International Air Tattoo, Fairford, Gloucestershire, England.

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


World

Scheduled passengers carried

Rank Airline 2005
1 American Airlines 99,038,000
2 Southwest Airlines 96,277,000
3 Delta Air Lines 74,584,000
4 United Airlines 69,265,000
5 Northwest Airlines 55,925,000
6 Lufthansa (w/o Swiss and Germanwings) 51,213,000
7 Air France 49,411,000
8 All Nippon Airways 49,226,000
9 Japan Airlines 48,911,000
10 China Southern Airlines 48,512,000

Scheduled international passengers carried

Rank Airline 2005
1 Ryanair 40,532,000 uncertain*
2 Lufthansa 38,236,000
3 Qantas 36,449,000
4 Air France 30,417,000
5 British Airways 29,498,000
6 KLM 22,322,000
7 Easyjet 21,917,000
8 American Airlines 21,228,000
9 Singapore Airlines 18,022,000
10 Emirates 17,948,000
  • * This figure is suspect as 40,532,000 is the total number of passengers flown by Ryanair in 2006 (see the rolling 12 months as at December 2006). Ryanair flies a small but still significant number of domestic routes in Ireland, the UK, Italy and Spain. Confirmation of the number of passengers flown on these routes is needed before Ryanair can claim top spot in the international passengers flown category. Even 25 domestic return flights a day with 135 passengers (both conservative estimates - there are at least a dozen daily domestic return flights in the UK alone and a similar number in Italy) would account for almost 2.5 million passengers.

Total scheduled passenger-kilometers flown

Rank Airline Passenger-kilometers (millions)
2006		 Notes
1 American Airlines 224,330
2 United Airlines 188,684
3 Delta Air Lines 158,952
4 Air France 123,458
5 Continental Airlines 122,712
6 Northwest Airlines 116,845
7 British Airways 114,896
8 Lufthansa 114,672
9 Southwest Airlines 108,935
10 Japan Airlines 89,314

Source: Passenger-km

Total scheduled freight tonne-kilometers flown in 2005

Rank Airline Tonne-kilometers (millions) Notes
1 FedEx Express 15,145
2 United Parcel Service 9,341
3 Korean Air 8,764
4 Lufthansa 8,091
5 Singapore Airlines 7,991
6 Cathay Pacific Airways 6,914
7 China Airlines 6,099
8 Air France 5,868
9 Cargolux 5,237
10 EVA Air 5,160

By fleet size in 2007

(as of October 2007)

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A United Airlines 777 landing at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
A Southwest Airlines 737 landing at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
Rank Airline Fleet size Subsidiaries
1 FedEx 669
2 American Airlines 653 Including American Airlines, American Eagle and AmericanConnection
3 Delta Air Lines 600
4 Lufthansa 556 Including Lufthansa+ Lufthansa CityLine(338), Lufthansa Cargo(30), Air Dolomiti(33), Eurowings(31)+Germanwings(27), Augsburg Airways(11) and Contact Air(12) and Swiss International Air Lines(74)
5 Southwest Airlines 502
6 Northwest Airlines Over 500
7 SkyWest Inc. 436 Including SkyWest(277) and Atlantic Southeast Airlines(159)
8 DHL 420
9 Air France-KLM 400 Including Transavia(31)
10 United Airlines 398
11 Continental Airlines 367
12 US Airways 357 Including America West(9)
13 Air Canada 337 Including Air Canada Jazz(132) fleet
14 SAS Group 301 Including airBaltic, Blue1, Scandinavian Airlines, Spanair and Widerøe.
15 China Southern Airlines 282
16 ExpressJet Airlines 274
17 UTair Aviation 262 Includes 98 fixed wing aircraft and 182 helicopters
18 United Parcel Service 254
19 British Airways 245 Includes 10 from BA CityFlyer
20 Qantas 213

Africa

Main article: List of largest airlines in Africa

Asia

Main article: List of largest airlines in Asia

Europe

Main article: List of largest airlines in Europe

Oceania

Main article: List of largest airlines in Oceania

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
  • Based on Bureau of Transportation Statistics 2004 Domestic Data and DOT Enplaned passenger data.

Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean

Current fleet size

Rank Airline Country Fleet Size Remarks
1 AeroMexico México 106 Including Aerolitoral
2 Mexicana de Aviación México 81 Including Click Mexicana
3 TACA Airlines El Salvador 32
4 Copa Airlines Panamá 30

Current destination number

Aeromexico Boeing 767-200
Rank Airline Country Destination Number Remarks
1 Mexicana México 76 Including Click Mexicana
2 AeroMexico México 73 Including Aerolitoral
3 TACA Airlines El Salvador 50
4 Copa Airlines Panamá 40
5 Aviacsa México 24

Passengers carried in 2005

Rank Airline Country Passengers Carried Remarks
1 Mexicana México 12.645.000 Including Click Mexicana
2 AeroMexico México 11.242.000 Including Aerolitoral
3 Aviacsa México 3.245.000
4 TACA El Salvador 3.208.000

South America

Current fleet size

Rank Airline Country Fleet Size Remarks
1 TAM Brazil 102
2 Gol Brazil 93 Including Varig
3 Aerolineas Argentinas Argentina 89 (without orders) Includes Austral
4 LAN Airlines Chile 57 Including LAN Argentina
5 Avianca Colombia 52 (without orders) Without Ocean Air, Helicol and Capital Airlines
6 Aeropostal Venezuela 29

Current destination number

Rank Airline Country Destination Number Remarks
1 Gol Brazil 76 Including Varig
2 TAM Brazil 75 Including codeshare agreements
3 Aerolineas Argentinas Argentina 74 Including Austral
4 LAN Airlines Chile 63 Including LANExpress, LAN Peru and LAN Argentina
5 Avianca Colombia 54 including OceanAir, Capital Airlines and VIP

Passengers carried in 2005

LAN Airbus A320
Rank Airline Country Passengers Carried Remarks
1 TAM Brazil 13.095.000
2 Varig Brazil 13.044.000
3 Gol Brazil 9.204.000
4 LAN Airlines Chile 7.966.900
5 Avianca Colombia 6.364.000
6 Aerolineas Argentinas Argentina 5.913.000 Without Austral (which means without domestic flys)

Notes

  1. "FedEx Corporation Facts".
  2. "AMR Corporation".
  3. "Delta Aircraft Fleet".
  4. "Lufthansa - Fleet".
  5. "Lufthansa Cargo - Details and Fleet History".
  6. "FLEET - Air Dolomiti".
  7. "Eurowings Airfleets >> Fleet Age".
  8. "Germanwings Airfleets >> Fleet Age".
  9. "Augsburg-Airways".
  10. "CH-Aviation - Airline News, Fleet Lists & More".
  11. "Fleet".
  12. "Southwest Airlines - Fact Sheet".
  13. "About NWA - Fleet, Employees, Hubs, Routes, Facility Bases".
  14. "Skywest Airlines".
  15. "Atlantic Southeast Airlines".
  16. "DHL Network".
  17. "AirFrance-KLM Fleet".
  18. "Transavia Fleet Age".
  19. "United Airlines Airfleets >> Fleet listing".
  20. "Continental Airlines Airfleets >> Fleet age".
  21. "US Airways Airfleets >> Fleet age".
  22. "America West Airlines Airfleets >> Fleet listing".
  23. "About Air Canada - Our Fleet".
  24. "Focus on the SAS Group 2007" (PDF).
  25. "China Southern Airlines - Details and Fleet History".
  26. "ExpressJet > Partners > Partners in Flight > ExpressJet Airlines".
  27. "UTAir Airlines (ATDB))".
  28. "UTAIR: Fleet".
  29. "UPS:Worldwide".
  30. "British Airways Airfleets >> Fleet age".
  31. "Qantas Fact File" (PDF).
  32. TAM at Aviation.ch
  33. Varig at Aviation.ch
  34. and LAN Peru LAN Airlines at Aviation.ch

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