List of largest airlines in Europe

This is a list of largest airlines in Europe:

By fleet size

Rank	Airline	Alliance	Fleet	Website
1	Lufthansa Group	Star Alliance	710	Lufthansa.com
2	Air France-KLM Group	SkyTeam	605	Airfrance.com KLM.com
3	International Airlines Group	Oneworld	432	BA.com Iberia.com
4	Ryanair		306	[1]

Total scheduled passengers carried in 2005 - 2011 (millions)

Rank	Airline	2011 (part)	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	Fleet	Sources	Alliance/ Association
1	Lufthansa Group	106.33	90.20	76.5	70.5	56.4	53.4	51.3	317	[2] 2[3]	Star Alliance
2	Ryanair	76.40	72.72	65.3	57.7	49	40.5		308	[4] [5]	ELFAA
3	Air France-KLM	75.78	70.75	71.4	73.8	74.8	73.5	70.0	363	[6] 1[7]	SkyTeam
4	easyJet	55.47	49.72	46.1	44.6	38.2	33.0		175	[8] [9]	ELFAA
5	International Airlines Group	51.68	57.30	56.7	56.4	59.8	60.9		353	[10] 4[11]	oneworld
6	Turkish Airlines	32.62	35.10	29.1	22.6	19.6	16.9	14.1	178	[12]	Star Alliance
7	Air Berlin	31.78	31.77	27.9	27.1	24.0	19.7		153	[13] 5[14]	oneworld (by 2012)
8	SAS Group	27.20	25.23	24.9	29.0	29.2	-		173	[15] 3[16]	Star Alliance
9	Alitalia	21.03 (Jan - Oct)	23.35	22.0	18.0	24.4	24.1	24	150	[17][18][19] [20][21][22] 10[23]	SkyTeam
10	Swiss International Air Lines	16.36	14.17	13.8	13.3 2	12.0	10.5		87	[24] [25]	Star Alliance Lufthansa Group
11	Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA	15.70	13.03	10.8	9.1	6.9	5.1	3.3	53	[26] [27]	ELFAA
12	Aeroflot	11.79 (Jan - Oct)	11.29	11.1	11.6	9.0	8.7	8.1	95	[28] 6[29]	SkyTeam
13	Vueling Airlines	11.45 (Jan - Nov)	11.03	8.2	5.9[30]	6.2	9	4	38	[31][32][33] [34]	British Airways - Iberia ELFAA
14	Austrian Airlines Group	11.26	10.89	9.9	10.7	10.8	10.8	10.1	102	[35] 7[36]	Star Alliance Lufthansa Group
15	Wizz Air	11.00	9.60	7.8	5.8	4.2	3		36	[37][38]	ELFAA
16	Aer Lingus	10.54	9.71	10.7	10.4	9.3	8.6	8.0	44	[39]	n/a
17	TAP Portugal	8.42 (Jan - Oct)	9.11	8.44	8.74	7.89	6.9	6.4	71	[40] [41][42]	Star Alliance
18	Transaero	7.25 (Jan - Oct)	6.65	5.03	4.8	3.24	2.1		48	[43]	n/a
19	Air Europa		9.0	8.9	9.5	8.9	8.1		40	[44]	SkyTeam
20	Pegasus Airlines		8.6	5.9	4.4				33	[45]	n/a
21	Germanwings	7.52	7.71	7.2	7.6				26	[46]	Lufthansa Group
22	flybe		7.2	6.7	6.8	7.0	5.2		72	[47] [48]	ELFAA
23	Finnair Group	8.01	7.14	7.4	8.3	8.7	8.8	8.5	65	[49] [50]	oneworld
24	UTAir	6.15 (Jan - Nov)	4.42	3.88	3.23	2.92	2.42	1.90	159	[51]	n/a
25	Sunexpress		6.7	5.59	4.23	3.00			25	[52]	n/a
26	bmi	5.73	6.19	7.4	9.5	10.6	10.5	10.5	67	[53]	Star Alliance Lufthansa Group
27	Aegean Airlines	5.09 (Jan - Oct)	5.71	6.5	6.0	5.2	4.45	4	34	[54][55] [56]	Star Alliance
28	S7	3.80 (Jan - Sep)	4.83	5.63	5.89	5.7	4.9	4.2	40	[57][58][59] [60]	oneworld
29	Brussels Airlines	4.85 (Jan - Oct)	4.89	4.7	5.86	5.85	5.74		48	[61] 10[62]	Star Alliance
30	Virgin Atlantic Airways	4.43 (Jan - Oct)	5.29	5.7	5.7	5.1	4.6	4.4	37	[63][64] [65]	n/a
31	Meridiana		5.0	1.6			4.6	4.0	35	[66] [67]	n/a
32	Czech Airlines	3.39 (Jan - Sep)	4.61	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.2	50	[68][69] [70]	SkyTeam
33	Transavia		6.39	5.2	5.5	5.4	5.1	4.8	29	[71] [72]	ELFAA
34	LOT	3.73 (Jan - Oct)	4.00	4.10	3.97	4.28	3.7	3.58	57	[73][74]	Star Alliance
35	Olympic Air		4.63	3.7	5.3	5.9	5.6		43	[75] [76]	n/a
36	Rossiya - Russian Airlines		3.07	2.94	3.5	3.24	2.37		25	[77]	n/a
37	Malev	2.61 (Jan - Oct)	2.95	3.22	3.12	3.13	3.12	2.97	22	[78][79][80]	oneworld
38	Jet2.com		3.89	3.09	3.45	3.86	2.83	1.90	32	[81]	ELFAA
39	AirBaltic	3.35	3.20	2.76	2.59	2.01	1.43		31	[82]	n/a
40	NIKI	3.52	3.11	2.39	2.1				11	[83] [84]	oneworld (by 2012)
41	TAROM	1.60 (Jan - Oct)	1.96	1.77	1.98	1.7	1.3		26	[85][86]	SkyTeam
42	Croatia Airlines	1.77 (Jan - Nov)	1.59	1.75	1.87	1.71	1.5		12	[87][88]	Star Alliance
43	Cyprus Airways	1.11 (Jan - Oct)	1.59	1.58	1.72	1.70	1.61	1.59	12	[89][90] [91]	n/a
44	Icelandair	1.74	1.48	1.28	1.5	1.6	1.5		22	[92][93]	n/a
45	Ural Airlines	1.92 (Jan - Sep)	1.79	1.5	1.45	1.22	1.0	0.91	17	[94][95]	n/a
46	Aerosvit Airlines	2.40 (Jan - Oct)	1.71	1.27	2.51	2.05	1.56		16	[96][97] [98]	n/a
47	Ukraine International Airlines	1.21 (Jan - Oct)	1.68	0.78	1.67	0.27	n/a		16	[99] [100]	n/a
48	Jat Airways	1.21	0.99	1.05	1.34	1.3	1.2		17	[101][102][103]	n/a
49	Adria Airways	1.10 (Jan - Nov)	1.17	1.14	1.30	1.14	1.02	0.94	12	[104][105]	Star Alliance
50	Aer Arann		0.89	0.77	1.05	1.15	1.1		14	[106]	n/a

General Notes

• ^a Figures valid for calendar year e.g. 1/2006 - 12/2006
• ^b Figures valid for financial year e.g. 4/2006 - 3/2007
• ^c Figures valid for financial year e.g. 7/2006 - 6/2007

Notes

• ^1 Includes Air France, KLM, CityJet, VLM Airlines and Transavia.
• ^2 Includes Lufthansa, Lufthansa CityLine, Air Dolomiti, partially Eurowings Luftverkehrs AG (Eurowings, but not Germanwings) and Swiss International Air Lines - since 7/2007, bmi and Austrian Airlines since 2009.
• ^3 Includes Scandinavian Airlines, Blue1 and Widerøe.
• ^4 Includes British Airways, Iberia, Air Nostrum and BA CityFlyer.
• ^5 Includes Air Berlin, Dba, LTU - since 1/2007 and Belair - since 11/2007.
• ^6 Includes Aeroflot, Donavia and Nordavia.
• ^7 Includes Austrian Airlines, Lauda Air and Tyrolean Airways.
• ^9 Only until the end of 2008.
• ^10 Includes Alitalia and Air One.

See also

• List of airlines of Europe
• World's largest airlines