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	Country	Airline/Holding	'18	'17	'16	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	'09	'08	'07	'06	Fleet	Dest.	Sources	Alliance	Association
1	Germany Switzerland Austria Belgium	Lufthansa Group1		130.04	117.4	115.2	112.5	110.4	108.9	112.0	95.1	81.2	76.4	68.8	59.1	650	321	[1]	Star Alliance	A4E
2	Ireland	Ryanair	9.3(Jan)	128.77	116.8	101.4	86.4	81.4	79.6	76.4	72.7	65.3	57.7	49.0	40.5	398	186	[2] [3]		A4E
3	United Kingdom Spain Ireland	International Airlines Group2	7.1(Jan)	104.83	100.7	94.9	77.3	67.2	54.6	51.7	50.6	53.3	59.8	61.7	63.2	520	248	[4]	oneworld	A4E
4	France Netherlands	Air France-KLM3	7.2(Jan)	98.72	93.4	89.8	87.4	78.4	77.5	75.8	70.8	71.4	73.8	74.8	73.5	574	231	[5]	SkyTeam	A4E
5	United Kingdom Switzerland Austria	easyJet4	5.1(Jan)	81.63	74.5	69.9	65.3	61.4	59.2	55.5	49.7	46.1	44.6	38.2	33.0	226	136	[6]		A4E
6	Turkey	Turkish Airlines	5.7(Jan)	68.61	62.8	61.2	54.8	48.3	39.0	32.6	29.1	25.1	22.6	19.6	16.9	337	291	[7]	Star Alliance	AIRE
7	Russia	Aeroflot Group9		50.13	43.4	39.4	34.7	31.4	27.5	16.4	14.1	11.1	11.6	10.2	8.7	325	189	[8]	SkyTeam
8	Norway Ireland United Kingdom Argentina	Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA	2.33 (Jan)	33.15	29.3	25.8	24.0	20.7	17.7	15.7	13.0	10.8	9.1	6.9	5.1	152	130	[9]		A4E
9	Sweden Norway Denmark	SAS Group7	1.8(Jan)	28.37	29.4	27.1	27.3	25.4	25.4	24.7	23.1	22.8	27.0	27.2	26.9	156	157	[10]	Star Alliance
10	Hungary	Wizz Air10	2.3(Jan)	28.27	22.78	19.2	15.8	13.5	12.0	11.2	9.6	7.8	5.8	4.2	3.0	88	144	[11]
11	Turkey	Pegasus Airlines		27.82	24.14	22.3	19.7	16.8	13.6	11.3	8.6	5.9	4.4	-	3.1	79	102	[12]
12	Italy	Alitalia8			22.6	23.0	23.2	24.0	24.3	25.0	23.4	22.0	18.0	24.4	24.1	103	123	[13]	SkyTeam
13	Portugal	TAP Air Portugal11	1.115(jan)	14.27	11.72	11.3	11.4	10.7	10.2	9.8	9.1	8.4	8.7	7.9	6.9	87	88	[14]	Star Alliance	A4E
14	Russia	S7 Group15		14.25	13.15	10.6	10.1	9.3	8.3	5.1	4.8	5.6	5.9	5.7	4.9	74	104	[15]	oneworld
15	Greece Cyprus	Aegean Airlines17		13.22	12.46	11.6	10.2	8.8	8.9	9.9	10.1	10.2	11.3	11.1	10.1	59	103	[16]	Star Alliance	A4E
16	Finland	Finnair	0.965(Jan)	11.90	10.87	10.2	9.6	9.3	8.8	8.0	7.1	7.4	8.3	8.7	8.8	73	103	[17]	oneworld	A4E
17	Spain	Air Europa			10.6	10.2	8.1	9.0	8.1	8.7	8.9	9.0	9.7	9.9	8.1	59	42	[18]	SkyTeam
18	United Kingdom Jersey	flybe19			8.4		7.7	7.5	7.6	7.2	7.2	7.3	6.8	7.0	5.2	76	77	[19]		ERA
19	Turkey	SunExpress		8.8	7.95	8.7	7.3	6.7	7.7	7.7	6.7	5.6	4.2	3.0	2.7	70	102	[20]	-
20	Czech Republic	Travel Service Airlines 23 Czech Airlines		8.17	7.3		6.57	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	57	?	[21][22]	n/a
21	Poland	LOT Polish Airlines13			6.89	5.58	6.1	5.9	6.3	5.8	5.5	5.0	4.0	4.3	3.7	43	51	[23][24]	Star Alliance	AIRE
22	United Kingdom	Jet2.com			6.67	5.85	6.0	5.5	4.8	4.2	3.3	3.1	3.4	3.9	2.8	60	50	[25]		A4E
23	Russia	Ural Airlines		7.999	6.47	5.4	5.1	4.4	3.5	2.5	1.8	1.5	1.5	1.2	1.0	42	66	[26]	n/a
24	Russia	UTair Aviation18		7.3	6.65	8.8	11.2	10.4	7.8	5.8	5.2	3.9	3.2	2.9	2.4	66	117	[27]	-
25	Ukraine	Ukraine International Airlines		6.93	6.0	4.8	3.8	4.5	2.8	1.9	1.7	0.8	1.7	0.3	-	39	80	[28]	-	AIRE
26	United Kingdom	Virgin Atlantic			5.20	5.94	6.2	5.5	5.4	5.3	5.3	5.7	5.7	5.1	4.6	40	37	[29]	-
27	Turkey	AtlasGlobal					-	-	5.0	3.0	2.2	-	-	-	-	21	17	[30][31][32]	n/a
28	Romania	Blue Air		5.06	3.59	2.02	1.36	1.9	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.2	21	26	[33]	n/a
29	Spain	Volotea		4.3			1.8	1.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	60	[34]		A4E
30	Iceland	Icelandair Group 16		4.04	3.67	3.0	2.9	2.6	2.4	1.8	1.7	1.8	1.5	1.6	1.5	28	36	[35]	n/a	A4E
31	Latvia	AirBaltic 0.23 (Jan)		3.52	2.89	2.6	2.8	2.9	3.1	3.4	3.2	2.8	-	2.0	1.4	24	60	[36]	n/a	A4E
32	Russia	Nordwind Airlines		3.514			4.5	3.7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	26	97	[37]	n/a
33	Turkey	Onur Air					-	-	3.0	-	4.5	-	-	-	-	30	21	[38][39]	n/a
34	Serbia	Air Serbia			2.62	2.55	2.3	-	1.3	1.2	1.0	1.0	1.3	1.3	1.2	22	41	[40][41][42]	Etihad Airways Partners
35	Belarus	Belavia			2.49		-	1.6	1.3	1.0	-	0.7	-	-	-	29	40	[43]	n/a
36	Romania	TAROM			2.4		2.2	2.1	2.2	2.2	2.2	1.7	2.0	1.9	1.5	23	40	[44]	SkyTeam
37	Russia	VIM Airlines		2.137 (Oct)	2.07		1.61	1.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	15	[45]	n/a
38	Croatia	Croatia Airlines		2.125	1.94	1.8	1.8	1.8	2.0	1.9	1.6	1.8	1.7	1.5	-	13	40	[46][47][48]	Star Alliance	AIRE
39	Italy	Meridiana Fly14			2.63		-	-	3.7	4.4	4.5	1.6	2.0	1.9	1.5	22	40	[49]	n/a
40	Malta	Air Malta					-	-	1.7	1.8	-	-	-	-	-	8	37	[50]	n/a
41	Luxembourg	Luxair			1.84	1.81	1.68	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	-	17	59	[51]	n/a	A4E
42	Iceland	WOW air		2.8	1.6	0.7	0.49	0.4	0.09	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	38	[52]	n/a	-
43	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan Airlines					-	-	-	1.4	1.0	-	-	-	-	28	22	[53]	n/a
44	Bulgaria	Bulgaria Air			1.25		-	-	-	-	-	-	1.2	-	-	13	22	[54]	n/a
45	Poland	Enter Air			1.17	1.11	1.17	-	-	-	-	-	1.2	-	-	19	74	[55]	n/a
46	Slovenia	Adria Airways			1,1	1,24	1.1	1.0	1.0	1.2	-	-	-	-	-	12	23	[56]	Star Alliance	AIRE
47	Russia	Azur Air		3.75

Notes

• ^1 Includes Lufthansa (inc. Lufthansa Regional (inc. Lufthansa CityLine and Air Dolomiti)), Eurowings, Swiss International Air Lines (inc. Swiss Global Air Lines and Edelweiss Air), Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines).
• ^2 Includes British Airways (inc. BA CityFlyer and OpenSkies), Iberia (inc. Air Nostrum & Iberia Express), British Midland International (2011 Q4-2012 Q4), Vueling Airlines (Q3 2013) and Aer Lingus (incl. Aer Lingus Regional).
• ^3 Includes Air France ( inc. HOP! and Transavia France) and KLM (inc. KLM cityhopper, and Transavia).
• ^4 Includes EasyJet Switzerland.
• ^5 Includes Anadolu Jet.
• ^6 Includes Belair and Niki.
• ^7 Includes Scandinavian Airlines, Blue1 and Widerøe.
• ^8 Includes Alitalia CityLiner.
• ^9 Includes Rossiya Airlines, Pobeda and Aurora.
• ^10 Includes Wizz Air Ukraine and Wizz Air Serbia.
• ^11 Includes TAP Express.
• ^13 Includes LOT Charters.
• ^14 Includes Air Italy.
• ^15 Includes Globus.
• ^16 Includes Icelandair and Air Iceland.
• ^17 Includes Olympic Air. Aegean Airlines has airline base in Larnaca International Airport
• ^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 SmartWings, Travel Service (Hungary), Travel Service (Slovakia) and Travel Service Polska.

See also

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

Further reading

• "Europe's Top 20 airline groups by passengers 2017; Lufthansa wrests top spot from Ryanair". CAPA Centre for Aviation. 21 Jan 2018.