World's largest airlines

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

Contents 1 By scheduled passengers 1.1 Scheduled passengers carried 1.2 Scheduled international passengers carried 1.3 Scheduled domestic passengers carried 2 By scheduled passenger-kilometres 2.1 Scheduled passenger-kilometres flown 2.2 Scheduled international passenger-kilometres flown 2.3 Scheduled domestic passenger-kilometres flown 3 By scheduled freight 3.1 Scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown 3.2 Scheduled international freight tonne-kilometres flown 3.3 Scheduled domestic freight tonne-kilometres flown 4 By fleet size 4.1 Passenger airlines 4.2 Cargo airlines 5 By region 5.1 Scheduled passengers carried 6 See also 7 Notes 8 By region 8.1 Scheduled passengers carried 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References

[edit] By scheduled passengers

[edit] Scheduled passengers carried

Rank	Airline	2007 (thousands)[1]	2006 (thousands)[2]	2005 (thousands)
1	Southwest Airlines	101,911	96,277	88,380	[3]
2	American Airlines	98,162	99,835	98,038	[4]
3	Air France-KLM2	74,795	73,484	70,015	[5]
4	Delta Air Lines3	72,900	73,584	86,007
5	United Airlines	68,400	69,265	66,717
6	Lufthansa1	62,900	53,400	51,300	[6]
7	China Southern Airlines	56,900	48,512	43,228
8	Continental Airlines	53,700	55,925	57,547
9	Japan Airlines	50,442	48,911	50,884	[7]
10	All Nippon Airways	50,384	49,226	48,315	[8]

Notes

• Based on International Air Transport Association published figures
• Note 1: Excludes figures for Germanwings and includes Swiss International Air Lines from 7/2007.
• Note 2: Includes figures for Air France and KLM; Air France-KLM's business year ends on March 31st.
• Note 3: Delta will become the world's largest carrier once Delta and Northwest have combined into one airline, which will be called "Delta".

[edit] Scheduled international passengers carried

Rank	Airline	2008 (thousands)[1]	2007 (thousands)[2]	2006 (thousands)
1	Ryanair	57,647	49,030	40,532
2	Lufthansa1	42,151	41,322	38,236
3	EasyJet	35,417	30,173	21,917
4	Air France	32,508	31,549	30,417
5	British Airways	29,054	28,302	29,498
6	KLM	23,808	23,165	22,322
7	Emirates Airline	22, 444	20,448	16,748
8	American Airlines	21,154	21,479	21,228
9	Singapore Airlines2	19,142	18,957	18,022
10	Continental Airlines3	18,860	17,695	16,667

Notes

• Based on International Air Transport Association published figures
• Note 1: Excludes figures for Swiss International Air Lines and Germanwings
• Note 2: Excludes figures for SilkAir
• Note 3: Includes figures for flights between Hong Kong and the rest of the People's Republic of China

[edit] Scheduled domestic passengers carried

Rank	Airline	2007 (thousands)[1]	2006 (thousands)[2]
1	Southwest Airlines	101,911	96,277
2	American Airlines	76,687	78,607
3	Delta Air Lines	61,651	63,446
4	United Airlines	58,162	58,801
5	China Southern Airlines1	52,505	45,249
6	All Nippon Airways	44,792	45,328
7	Continental Airlines	44,337	45,743
8	US Airways	37,560	32,094
9	Northwest Airlines	37,175	35,852
10	Japan Airlines	35,583	37,154

Notes

• Based on International Air Transport Association published figures
• Note 1: Excludes figures for flights to Hong Kong from the rest of the People's Republic of China.

[edit] By scheduled passenger-kilometres

[edit] Scheduled passenger-kilometres flown

Rank	Airline	2008 (millions)[9]	2005 (millions)	2006 (millions)
1	American Airlines	222,761	224,330
2	United Airlines	176,706	191,933	188,684
3	Delta Air Lines3	169,895	166,209	158,952
4	Continental Airlines	131,845	130,965	122,712
5	Air France1	129,433	128,914	123,458
6	Lufthansa2	126,267	122,091	114,672
7	Northwest Airlines	118,272	117,357	116,845
8	Southwest Airlines	115,734	116,385	116,845
9	British Airways	114,608	113,275	114,896
10	Emirates Airline	100,672

Notes

• Based on International Air Transport Association published figures
• Note 1: Excludes figures for KLM
• Note 2: Excludes figures for Swiss International Air Lines and Germanwings
• Note 3: Delta will become the world's largest carrier once operations with Northwest Airlines have combined.

[edit] Scheduled international passenger-kilometres flown

Rank	Airline	2008[9] (millions)	2007 (millions)
1	Air France1	211,987	118,112
2	Lufthansa2		211,987
3	British Airways		211,987
4	Emirates Airline	100,672	90,530
5	Singapore Airlines3	100,672	90,901
6	American Airlines	83,542	81,324
7	United Airlines	80,809	77,709
8	Cathay Pacific4	77,550	74,987
9	Continental Airlines	73,927	74,488
10	Delta Air Lines	71,972	63,202

Notes

• Based on International Air Transport Association published figures
• Note 1: Excludes figures for KLM
• Note 2: Excludes figures for Swiss International Air Lines and Germanwings
• Note 3: Excludes figures for SilkAir
• Note 4: Includes figures for flights between Hong Kong and the rest of the People's Republic of China

[edit] Scheduled domestic passenger-kilometres flown

Rank	Airline	2007 (millions)[9]	2006 (millions)
1	American Airlines	141,437	143,201
2	Southwest Airlines	116,385	108,935
3	United Airlines	114,224	114,106
4	Delta Air Lines	103,008	104,626
5	Continental Airlines	74,126	70,810
6	China Southern Airlines1	69,367	59,006
7	Northwest Airlines	63,872	64,979
8	US Airways	52,018	43,606
9	JetBlue Airways	41,395	37,513
10	All Nippon Airways	39,098	39,586

Notes

• Based on International Air Transport Association published figures
• Note 1: Excludes figures for flights to Hong Kong from the rest of the People's Republic of China.

[edit] By scheduled freight

[edit] Scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown

Rank	Airline	2008 (millions)[10]	2007 (millions)[10]	2006 (millions)	2005 (millions)
1	FedEx Express	15,122	15,710	15,145	14,408
2	UPS Airlines	10,977	10,968	9,341	9,075
3	Korean Air Cargo	8,890	9,568	8,764	8,072
4	Cathay Pacific	8,245	8,225	6,914	6,458
5	Lufthansa Cargo1	8,206	8,348	8,091	7,680
6	Singapore Airlines Cargo2	7,486	7,945	7,991	7,603
7	Emirates Airline	6,013	5,497
8	Air France3	5,820	6,126	5,868	5,532
9	Cargolux	5,334	5,482	5,237	5,149
10	China Airlines	5,261	6,301	6,099	6,037

Notes

• Based on International Air Transport Association published figures
• Note 1: Includes figures for Lufthansa
• Note 2: Includes figures for Singapore Airlines
• Note 3: Excludes figures for KLM

[edit] Scheduled international freight tonne-kilometres flown

Rank	Airline	2007 (millions)[10]	2007 (millions)	2006 (millions)
1	Korean Air Cargo	8,822	9,498	8,680
2	Cathay Pacific3	8,245	8,225	6,914
3	Lufthansa Cargo1	8,194	8,336	8,077
4	Singapore Airlines Cargo2	7,486	7,945	7,991
5	FedEx Express	6,582	6,470	6,136
6	Emirates Airline	6,013	5,497	5,027
7	Air France4	6,013	6,123	5,864
8	Cargolux	5,334	5,482	5,237
9	UPS Airlines	5,289	5,077
10	China Airlines	5,261	6,301	6,099

Notes

• Based on International Air Transport Association published figures
• Note 1: Includes figures for Lufthansa
• Note 2: Includes figures for Singapore Airlines
• Note 3: Includes figures for flights between Hong Kong and the rest of the People's Republic of China
• Note 4: Excludes figures for KLM

[edit] Scheduled domestic freight tonne-kilometres flown

Rank	Airline	2007 (millions)[10]	2006 (millions)
1	FedEx Express	9,239	9,009
2	UPS Airlines	5,892	5,315
3	China Southern Airlines1	1,101	1,027
4	Northwest Airlines	773	890
5	Air China1	757	706
6	China Eastern Airlines1	590	560
7	United Airlines	507	417
8	American Airlines	469	493
9	All Nippon Airways	407	404
10	Japan Airlines	399

Notes

• Based on International Air Transport Association published figures
• Note 1: Excludes figures for flights to Hong Kong and/or Macau from the rest of the People's Republic of China.

[edit] By fleet size

[edit] Passenger airlines

Rank	Airline	Fleet size	Notes
1	Delta Air Lines	701[11]
2	American Airlines	613[12]
3	Southwest Airlines	546[13]
4	United Airlines	396[14]
5	Continental Airlines	380[15]
6	US Airways	352[16]
7	Lufthansa	347[17]
8	Air Canada	334[18]
9	China Southern Airlines	299[19]
10	SkyWest Airlines	277[20]
11	Air France	256[21]	The fleet of the Air France-KLM group consists of 606 aircraft as of June 2009
12	ExpressJet Airlines	244[22]
13	Air China	234[23]
14	British Airways	230[24]
15	Japan Airlines	205[25]

[edit] Cargo airlines

Rank	Airline	Fleet size	Notes
1	FedEx Express	672[26]
2	UPS Airlines	262[27]

[edit] By region

[edit] Scheduled passengers carried

Continent/ region	Airline	Passengers carried	Full list
Africa	South African Airways	8,050,000 (2006/2007)[28]	List of largest airlines in Africa
Asia	China Southern Airlines	58,237,000 (2008)[29]	List of largest airlines in Asia
Europe	Air France-KLM	74,795,000 (2007)[1]	List of largest airlines in Europe
North America	Southwest Airlines	101,911,000 (2007)[1]	List of largest airlines in North America
Oceania	Qantas	25,950,000 (2007)[30]	List of largest airlines in Oceania
South America	TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas)	24,002,620 (2008)[31]	List of largest airlines in South America

[edit] See also

• World's busiest airport
• World's busiest airports by passenger traffic
• World's busiest airports by traffic movements
• List of the busiest airports in Africa by passenger traffic
• List of the busiest airports in Europe by passenger traffic
• List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

[edit] Notes

[edit] By region

[edit] Scheduled passengers carried

Continent/ region	Airline	Passengers carried	Full list
Africa	South African Airways	8,050,000 (2006/2007)[1]	List of largest airlines in Africa
Asia	China Southern Airlines	58,237,000 (2008)[2]	List of largest airlines in Asia
Europe	Air France-KLM	74,795,000 (2007)[3]	List of largest airlines in Europe
North America	Southwest Airlines	101,911,000 (2007)[3]	List of largest airlines in North America
Oceania	Qantas	25,950,000 (2007)[4]	List of largest airlines in Oceania
South America	TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas)	24,002,620 (2008)[5]	List of largest airlines in South America

[edit] See also

• World's busiest airport
• World's busiest airports by passenger traffic
• World's busiest airports by traffic movements
• List of the busiest airports in Africa by passenger traffic
• List of the busiest airports in Europe by passenger traffic
• List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• World Air Transport Statistics 2006, International Air Transport Association.