Largest airlines in the world

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The world's largest airlines can be defined in several ways. American Airlines Group is the largest by its fleet size, revenue, profit, passengers carried and revenue passenger mile. Delta Air Lines is the largest by assets value and market capitalization. Lufthansa Group is the largest by number of employees, FedEx Express by freight tonne-kilometers, Ryanair by number of international passengers carried and Turkish Airlines by number of countries served.

By airline companies revenue

American Airlines is the largest by fleet size, revenue, profit, passengers carried and RPK
Lufthansa is the largest by number of employees
Forbes' World’s Biggest Public Companies[1]
Rank Airline Country Revenue (US$B) Profit (US$B) Assets (US$B) Market cap. (US$B) Employees
1 American Airlines Group[2]  United States 40.99 7.61 48.41 22.1 118,500
2 Delta Air Lines  United States 40.5 4.7 53.3 34.4 80,000
3 United Continental Holdings  United States 37.5 7.1 40.9 17.1 83,000
4 Lufthansa Group  Germany
  Switzerland
 Austria
 Belgium 		35.5 1.9 36.3 7.3 120,652
5 Air France-KLM  France
 Netherlands 		28.9 0.131 25.3 2.7 96,417
6 International Airlines Group  United Kingdom
 Spain 		25.3 1.7 30.7 15.4 60,862
7 Southwest Airlines  United States 20.2 2.2 22.2 30.2 49,600
8 China Southern Airlines  China 17.7 0.620 28.7 8.4 87,202
9 China Eastern Airlines  China 14.9 0.730 30.1 10.9 71,033
10 All Nippon Airways  Japan 14.7 0.497 19.1 9.9 33,719

Note that Emirates is a government-owned company and is thus not included in this list of public companies. Its 2014-2015 revenue was Dhs. 88.819 billion (US$24.2 billion), profit Dhs. 4.555 billion (US$1.24 billion), and assets Dhs. 111.362 billion (US$30.34 billion) with 56,725 employees.

By passengers carried (thousands)

Rank Airline Country 2016[3] 2015[4] 2014[5] 2013[6] 2012[7] 2011[8]
1 American Airlines  United States 198,700 146,530 87,830 86,823 86,335 86,042
2 Delta Air Lines  United States 183,700 138,842 129,433 120,636 116,726 113,731
3 Southwest Airlines  United States 151,800 144,575 129,087 115,323 112,234 110,587
4 United Airlines  United States 143,200 95,384 90,439 90,161 92,619 50,473
5 Ryanair  Ireland 119,800 101,401 86,370 81,395 79,649 76,422
6 China Southern Airlines  China 84,900 109,301 100,683 91,504 86,277 80,545
7 China Eastern Airlines  China 80,900 75,139 66,174 62,653 79,611
8 easyJet  United Kingdom
  Switzerland
 Austria 		73,100 70,232 62,309 58,410
9 Turkish Airlines  Turkey 62,800 60 198
10 Lufthansa  Germany
  Switzerland
 Austria
 Belgium 		62,400 59,850 63,273 64,393 63,012
Air China  China 58,661 54,674

LATAM carried 67.833 million passengers in 2014, more than China Eastern, and Turkish Airlines 54.675, more than Air China. These reports are not given by the IATA and could be from multiple air operator's certificates.

By scheduled passenger-kilometres flown (millions)

Airline holding groups

Rank Group Country 2016[3]
1 American Airlines Group  United States 359,574
2 Delta Air Lines  United States 342,860
3 United Continental Holdings  United States 338,388
4 The Emirates Group  United Arab Emirates 276,608
5 International Airlines Group  United Kingdom
 Spain		 243,474
6 Air France-KLM  France
 Netherlands		 238,183
7 Lufthansa Group  Germany 226,633
8 China Southern Airlines  China 206,092
9 Southwest Airlines  United States 200,964
10 Air China  China 188,137

Individual airlines

Rank Airline Country 2016[9] 2015[10] 2014[11] 2013[12] 2012[13] 2011[14]
1 American Airlines  United States 320,044 320,813 208,046 206,551 203,336 203,485
2 Delta Air Lines  United States 308,088 302,512 290,862 277,560 271,567 269,724
3 United Airlines  United States 299,080 294,970 287,547 286,802 288,282 160,270
4 Emirates  United Arab Emirates 270,797 251,190 230,855 209,377 180,880 153,264
5 Southwest Airlines  United States 200,848 189,097 162,445 145,124 137,708 134,918
6 China Southern Airlines  China 205,720 189,186 166,074 147,841 135,021 121,944
7 Lufthansa  Germany 149,702 145,904 143,403 144,236 142,512 140,972
8 British Airways  United Kingdom 144,028 140,780 137,204 130,129 124,318 116,864
9 Ryanair  Ireland 142,740 125,194
10 China Eastern  China 138,042

By scheduled freight tonne-kilometres (millions)

FedEx Express by freight tonne-kilometers
Rank Airline Country 2016[9] 2015[10] 2014[15] 2013[16] 2012[17] 2011[18]
1 FedEx Express  United States 15,712 15,799 16,020 16,127 16,108 15,939
2 Emirates SkyCargo  United Arab Emirates 12,270 12,157 11,240 10,459 9,319 8,132
3 UPS Airlines  United States 11,264 10,807 10,936 10,584 10,416 10,566
4 Cathay Pacific Cargo  Hong Kong 9,947 9,935 9,464 8,241 8,433 9,109
5 Qatar Airways Cargo  Qatar 9,221 7,660 5,997 4,972
5 Korean Air Cargo  South Korea 7,666 7,761 8,079 7,666 8,144 8,974
7 Lufthansa Cargo  Germany 7,384 6,888 7,054 7,218 7,175 7,674
8 Cargolux  Luxembourg 6,878 6,309 5,753 5,225
9 Singapore Airlines Cargo  Singapore 6,345 6,083 6,019 6,240 6,694 7,118
10 Air China Cargo  China 6,089 5,718

By fleet size

Delta Air Lines is the largest by assets value and market capitalization
Rank Airline Country Fleet (June 2016)[19]
1 American Airlines  United States 1,556[a]
2 Delta Air Lines  United States 1,330 [a]
3 United Airlines  United States 1,229[a]
4 Southwest Airlines  United States 720
5 FedEx Express  United States 688
6 China Southern Airlines  China 515
7 China Eastern Airlines  China 429
8 Air Canada  Canada 404[a]
9 Air China  China 384
10 Ryanair  Ireland 349
  1. ^ a b c d Includes aircraft operated by regional partners

By number of countries served

Rank Airline Country Countries served (March 2013)[20]
1 Turkish Airlines  Turkey 106
2 Lufthansa  Germany 83
3 Air France  France 78
3 British Airways  United Kingdom 78
5 Qatar Airways  Qatar 73
6 Delta Air Lines  United States 71
7 Emirates  United Arab Emirates 70
8 KLM  Netherlands 66
8 Egyptair  Egypt 66
10 United Airlines  United States 60

By number of destinations

Rank Airline Country Destinations served (November 2017)
1 American Airlines  United States 350 [1]
2 Air Canada  Canada 350 [2]
3 United Airlines  United States 342 [3]
4 Delta Air Lines  United States 325 [4]
5 Turkish Airlines  Turkey 300 [5]
6 Lufthansa  Germany 220 [6]
7 China Eastern Airlines  China 217 [7]
8 China Southern Airlines  China 208 [8]
9 Ryanair  Ireland 205 [9]
10 Air France  France 204 [10]
11 Air China  China 201 [11]
12 British Airways  United Kingdom 183 [12]
13 Norwegian Air Shuttle  Norway 153 [13]
14 Qatar Airways  Qatar 150 [14]
15 S7 Airlines  Russia 146 [15]
16 KLM  Netherlands 145 [16]
17 Emirates  United Arab Emirates 141 [17]
18 Austrian Airlines  Austria 130 [18]
19 EasyJet  United Kingdom 124 [19]
20 Ethiopian Airlines  Ethiopia 122 [20]

See also

References

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