List of largest airlines in Europe
The following is a list of the largest airlines in Europe by total(scheduled and chartered) passengers carried (in millions).
| Rank | Airline/Holding | '14 | '13 | '12 | '11 | '10 | '09 | '08 | '07 | '06 | '05 | Passenger Fleet |
Current Destinations |
Sources | Alliance / Association |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |     Lufthansa Group1 |
30.30 (Apr) | 104.6 | 103.1 | 106.3 | 90.2 | 76.5 | 70.5 | 62.9 | 53.4 | 51.3 | 602 | 278 | [1] | Star Alliance |
| 2 |  Ryanair |
21.98 (Apr) | 81.4 | 79.6 | 76.4 | 72.7 | 65.3 | 57.7 | 49.0 | 40.5 | 33.4 | 303 | 179 | [2] | ELFAA |
| 3 |   Air France-KLM2 |
23.98 (Apr) | 78.4 | 77.5 | 75.8 | 70.8 | 71.4 | 73.8 | 74.8 | 73.5 | 70.0 | 574 | 246 | [3] | SkyTeam |
| 4 |   International Airlines Group4 |
21.64 (Apr) | 67.2 | 54.6 | 51.7 | 57.3 | 56.7 | 56.4 | 59.8 | 60.9 | - | 457 | 207 | [4] | oneworld |
| 5 | easyJet3 |
19.15 (Apr) | 61.4 | 59.2 | 55.5 | 49.7 | 46.1 | 44.6 | 38.2 | 33.0 | 30.3 | 198 | 134 | [5] | ELFAA |
| 6 |  Turkish Airlines5 |
16.58 (Apr) | 48.3 | 39.0 | 32.6 | 29.1 | 25.1 | 22.6 | 19.6 | 16.9 | 14.1 | 238 | 253 | [6] | Star Alliance |
| 7 |      TUI Airlines20 |
- | 33.7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 133 | - | [7] | n/a |
| 8 | Air Berlin Group 6 |
8.41 (Apr) | 31.5 | 29.6 | 31.8 | 31.8 | 27.9 | 27.1 | 24.0 | 19.7 | - | 153 | 145 | [8] | oneworld |
| 9 |  Aeroflot Group9 |
9.44 (Apr) | 31.4 | 27.5 | 16.4 | 14.1 | 11.1 | 11.6 | 10.2 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 239 | 189 | [9][10] | SkyTeam |
| 10 | SAS Group7 |
10.94 (May) | 27.7 | 28.2 | 27.2 | 25.2 | 24.9 | 29.0 | 29.2 | - | - | 137 | 157 | [11] | Star Alliance |
| 11 | Alitalia8 |
2.86 (Feb) | 24.0 | 24.3 | 25.0 | 23.4 | 22.0 | 18.0 | 24.4 | 24.1 | 24.0 | 143 | 101 | [12] [13] | SkyTeam |
| 12 | Thomas Cook Group21 |
- | 21.8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 80 | - | [14] | |
| 13 | Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA |
8.96 (May) | 20.7 | 17.7 | 15.7 | 13.0 | 10.8 | 9.1 | 6.9 | 5.1 | 3.3 | 93 | 135 | [15] | ELFAA |
| 14 | Pegasus Airlines |
4.08 (Mar) | 16.8 | 13.6 | 11.3 | 8.6 | 5.9 | 4.4 | - | 3.1 | - | 52 | 80 | [16] | n/a |
| 15 |    Wizz Air10 |
- | 13.5 | 12.0 | 11.2 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 5.8 | 4.2 | 3.0 | - | 45 | 83 | [17][18] | ELFAA |
| 16 | Transaero |
- | 12.5 | 10.3 | 8.5 | 6.7 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 3.2 | 2.1 | - | 93 | 113 | [19][20] | n/a |
| 17 |  TAP Portugal11 |
2.30 (Mar) | 10.7 | 10.2 | 9.8 | 9.1 | 8.4 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 6.9 | 6.4 | 55 | 80 | [21] | Star Alliance |
| 18 | Aer Lingus12 |
4.11 (May) | 10.7 | 10.7 | 10.5 | 9.7 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 9.3 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 63 | 75 | [22] | n/a |
| 19 | UTair Aviation18 |
1.93 (Mar) | 10.4 | 7.8 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 108 | 117 | [23][24] | n/a |
| 20 | S715 |
- | 9.3 | 8.3 | 5.1 | 4.8 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 52 | 90 | [25] | oneworld |
| 21 | Finnair |
3.02 (Apr) | 9.3 | 8.8 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 44 | 65 | [26] | oneworld |
| 22 | Air Europa |
- | 9.0 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 9.7 | 9.9 | 8.1 | - | 40 | 54 | [27][28] | SkyTeam |
| 23 |  Aegean Airlines17 |
1.63 (Mar) | 8.8 | 8.9 | 9.9 | 10.1 | 10.2 | 11.3 | 11.1 | 10.1 | - | 50 | 74 | [29][30][31] | Star Alliance |
| 24 | flybe19 |
- | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 7.0 | 5.2 | - | 68 | 56 | [32] | ELFAA |
| 25 | Sunexpress |
- | 6.7 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 6.7 | 5.6 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 2.7 | - | 64 | 52 | [33] | n/a |
| 26 | Monarch Airlines |
- | 6.2 | 6.3 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 5.4 | 39 | 30 | [34] | n/a |
| 27 | Brussels Airlines |
- | 5.9 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 5.7 | - | 45 | 67 | [35] | Star Alliance |
| 28 | Jet2.com |
- | 5.6 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 49 | 59 | [36] | ELFAA |
| 29 | Virgin Atlantic |
- | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 41 | 37 | [37][38][39] | n/a |
| 30 | AtlasJet |
- | - | 5.0 | 3.0 | 2.2 | - | - | - | - | 1.4 | 15 | 15 | [40][41][42] | n/a |
| 31 |  LOT Polish Airlines13 |
- | 4.6 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 35 | 54 | [43][44] | Star Alliance |
| 32 | Air Nostrum |
- | - | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 5.7 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 40 | 51 | [45] | oneworld |
| 33 | Ural Airlines |
- | 4.4 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 29 | 66 | [46] | n/a |
| 34 | Meridiana Fly14 |
- | - | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 18 | 40 | [47] | n/a |
| 35 | Nordwind Airlines |
- | 3.7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 44 | 97 | [48] | n/a |
| 36 | Onur Air |
- | - | 3.0 | - | 4.5 | - | - | - | - | 4.8 | 29 | 21 | [49][50] | n/a |
| 37 |  AirBaltic |
- | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 1.4 | - | 28 | 60 | [51][52] | n/a |
| 38 | Ukraine International Airlines |
- | - | 2.8 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 0.3 | - | - | 41 | 75 | [53][54] | n/a |
| 39 |  Czech Airlines |
- | 2.8 | 2.8 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 25 | 49 | [55] | SkyTeam |
| 40 |  Icelandair Group 16 |
- | 2.6 | 2.4 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.5 | - | 27 | 36 | [56] | n/a |
| 41 | Travel Service Airlines 23 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | 2.3 | 2.2 | - | - | 28 | 46 | [57][58] | n/a |
| 42 |  TAROM |
- | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.3 | - | 24 | 53 | [59] | SkyTeam |
| 43 | Blue Air |
- | 1.9 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 | - | 7 | 26 | - | n/a |
| 44 |  Croatia Airlines |
- | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.5 | - | - | 13 | 40 | [60] | Star Alliance |
| 45 |  Air Malta |
- | - | 1.7 | 1.8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 37 | [61] | n/a |
| 46 |  Belavia |
- | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.0 | - | 0.7 | - | - | - | - | 23 | 40 | [62] | n/a |
| 47 |  Azerbaijan Airlines |
- | - | - | 1.4 | 1.0 | - | - | - | - | - | 31 | 22 | [63] | n/a |
| 48 | Volotea |
- | 1.4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | 50 | [64] | ELFAA |
| 49 | VIM Airlines |
- | 1.4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 15 | [65] | n/a |
| 50 |  Luxair |
- | - | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | - | - | 18 | 59 | [66] | n/a |
| 51 | Air Serbia |
- | - | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 | - | 13 | 34 | [67][68] | n/a |
| 52 |  Cyprus Airways |
- | - | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 9 | 18 | [69] | n/a |
| 53 |  Bulgaria Air |
- | - | - | - | - | - | 1.2 | - | - | - | 11 | 22 | Bulgaria air | n/a |
| 54 |  Adria Airways |
- | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 12 | 37 | [70] | Star Alliance |
| 55 |  Estonian Air |
- | 0.6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 14 | [71] | n/a |
| 56 | WOW air |
- | 0.5 | 0.1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 17 | [72] | n/a |
| 57 | Carpatair22 |
- | - | 0.2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 8 | [73] | n/a |
- Notes
- ^1 Includes Lufthansa ([inc. Lufthansa Regional (inc. Lufthansa CityLine and Air Dolomiti) and Germanwings), Swiss International Air Lines (inc. Swiss European Air Lines and Edelweiss Air) and Austrian Airlines Group ([inc. Austrian Airlines and Tyrolean Airways).
- ^2 Includes Air France ( inc. HOP! and Transavia France) and KLM (inc. KLM cityhopper, Martinair and Transavia).
- ^3 Includes EasyJet Switzerland.
- ^4 Includes British Airways (inc. BA CityFlyer and OpenSkies), IBERIA (inc. Iberia Express) and Vueling Airlines.
- ^5 Includes Anadolu Jet.
- ^6 Includes Belair and Niki.
- ^7 Includes Scandinavian Airlines, Blue1 and Widerøe.
- ^8 Includes Air One and Alitalia CityLiner.
- ^9 Includes Donavia, Rossiya Airlines, SAT Airlines, Vladivostok Air and Orenair.
- ^10 Includes Wizz Air Ukraine and Wizz Air Serbia.
- ^11 Includes Portugália Airlines.
- ^12 Includes Aer Lingus Regional.
- ^13 Includes LOT Charters.
- ^14 Includes Air Italy.
- ^15 Includes Globus.
- ^16 Includes Icelandair and Air Iceland.
- ^17 Includes Olympic Air.
- ^18 Includes UTair-Express, UTair-Ukraine, Katekavia, Turuhan Airlines and Vostok Airlines.
- ^19 Includes Loganair (inc. Suckling Airways).
- ^20 Includes Arkefly, Corsair International, Jetairfly, Thomson Airways, TUIfly and TUIfly Nordic.
- ^21 Includes Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium and Condor Airlines.
- ^22 Includes Moldavian Airlines.
- ^23 Includes Travel Service Poland, Travel Service Slovakia, Travel Service Hungary, Smart Wings .