List of largest airlines in Asia

This is a list of the largest airlines in Asia by fleet size and total passengers carried in a twelve-month period. The table is updated periodically as and when new monthly data are available. Figures are for individual airlines; aggregate figures for airline groups (airlines and their partners/subsidiaries related by full equity ownership) are shown only when they are officially published.

By Passengers Carried (Millions)

Rank	Airline / Holding	'16	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	'09	Passenger Fleet	Current Destinations	Sources	Alliance / Association
1	China Southern Airlines	95.8 (Oct)	109.4	100.9	91.8	86.5	80.7	76.4	49.4	512	190	[1]	SkyTeam
2	China Eastern Airlines ¹	85.2 (Oct)	93.8	83.8	79.1	73.1	68.7	64.9	44.0	451	217	[2][3]	SkyTeam
3	Air China	80.9 (Oct)	89.8	83.0	77.7	72.4	69.4	60.0	41.3	367	201	[4][5]	Star Alliance
4	Lion Air Group ⁶		53.0	45.0	37.9	32.0	27.0	20.5	-	254	79	[6]
5	Emirates Airlines ⁵		51.8	48.1	44.5	39.4	34.0	31.4	27.5	251	153	[7]	n/a
6	All Nippon Airways ³	39.3 (Oct)	50.8	50.4	49.0	47.4	44.9	45.7	50.4	243	86	[8][9]	Star Alliance
7	Air Asia Group²	42.0 (Sep)	50.6	45.6	42.6	34.1	29.9	25.7	22.7	174	121	[10]	n/a
8	Japan Airlines ⁴	33.7 (Oct)	39.9	39.1	38.6	37.6	35.4	44.7	48.0	116	92	[11]	oneworld
9	Hainan Airlines ⁸	31.7 (Sep)	38.6	35.6	26.3	22.6	20.5	18.6	17.9	157	110	[12][13]	n/a
10	Cathay Pacific ⁷	28.7 (Oct)	34.0	31.5	29.9	29.0	27.6	26.8	23.3	146	112	[14]	oneworld
11	Garuda Indonesia ²¹	28.8 (Oct)	32.9	29.1	24.9	20.4	17.1	12.5	-	192	133	[15][16]	SkyTeam
12	Qatar Airways		-	27.9	25.2	24.3	22.5	18.2	18.6	161, Orders:219	151	[17][18]	oneworld
13	Korean Air ¹³		-	23.3	23.6	24.0	23.3	22.9	20.4	153, Orders:128	116	[19][20][21][22]	SkyTeam
14	IndiGo		29.7	22.8	19.3	15.8	-	-	-	101, Orders:430	38	[23][24][25]	n/a
15	Jet Airways ¹⁰	6.0 (Mar)	22.9	18.3	17.0	17.4	16.2	14.2	15.6	116, Orders:88	69	[26]	n/a
16	Etihad Airways ¹²		-	22.0	18.0	17.0	16.0	14.0	12.0	152, Orders:199	133	[27][28]	n/a
17	Xiamen Airlines		-	20.4	18.6	16.8	15.3	13.6	11.1	102	59	[29]	SkyTeam
18	Shenzhen Airlines		-	-	20.0	21.5	18.3	17.6	15.1	136	74	[30][31]	Star Alliance
19	Singapore Airlines ⁹	18.9 (Oct)	22.5	22.2	18.7	18.1	16.9	16.6	16.5	107, Orders: 97	62	[32]	Star Alliance
20	Cebu Pacific ²²	14.5 (Sep)	18.4	16.9	14.4	12.3	10.5	9.6	-	65, Orders: 66	62	[33]	Value Alliance
21	Thai Airways International ¹⁴	14.9 (Oct)	18.4	17.7	21.5	20.6	18.4	18.2	18.5	95	78	[34]	Star Alliance
22	Air India ¹¹		18.0	16.7	17.3	16.0	-	15.0	13.0	113	90	[35][36][37]	Star Alliance
23	Asiana Airlines ¹⁶		-	17.3	16.3	15.0	14.7	13.9	12.4	85	108	[38][39]	Star Alliance
24	Sichuan Airlines		-	-	16.7	14.4	12.9	10.7	9.2	81	60+	[40]	n/a
25	Vietnam Airlines	4.6 (Mar)	17.4	15.7	15.0	14.0	-	-	9.3	87	52	[41]	SkyTeam
26	Malaysia Airlines ¹⁵		-	16.0	17.2	13.4	13.3	13.1	11.9	98 Orders :14	61	[42]	oneworld
27	Shandong Airlines		-	15.3	14.0	12.5	-	-	-	75	60	[43]	n/a
28	Saudia		-	14.8	11.5	10.3	8.4	-	-	94	96	[44][45][46]	Skyteam
29	China Airlines ¹⁸	12.2 (Oct)	14.7	14.1	12.8	11.4	-	11.3	10.0	82	118	[47][48]	SkyTeam
30	Philippine Airlines ²⁰		12.0	12.0	11.2	12.7	-	-	-	77 Orders: 43	74	[49]	n/a
31	SpiceJet ¹⁷		11.7	12.6	11.7	9.5	8.6	6.6	-	58	54	[50]	n/a
32	Spring Airlines		-	11.4	-	9.1	7.2	5.9	4.3	39	34	[51][52]	-
33	EVA Airways	9.2 (Oct)	10.0	8.9	8.0	7.5	6.6	6.4	6.0	61	73	[53][54]	Star Alliance
34	Gulf Air		-	-	-	-	7.1	-	5.7	26	32	[55][56]	-
35	Air Arabia		-	-	6.1	5.3	-	-	-	35	89	[57]	-
36	Mahan Air		-	5.6	5.5	5.5	5.4	-	-	53	57	[58]	-
37	Pakistan International Airways		-	-	-	5.3	6.0	5.5	5.5	38	62	[59][60]	-
38	Oman Air		-	-	5.0	4.4	-	-	-	30	44	[61]	-
39	Bangkok Airways		-	4.8	4.2	3.6	3.1	2.7	-	27	23	[62]	-
40	SriLankan Airlines		-	-	4.7	4.9	-	-	-	23	61	[63]	oneworld
41	Tigerair ¹⁹		4.6	6.1	5.1	4.4	3.9	-	-	26	35	[64]	Value Alliance
42	Iran Air		-	4.5	4.9	5.3	5.2	-	-	51	50	[65]	-
43	EL AL		-	-	4.4	4.2	-	-	-	39	40	[66]	-
44	Air Astana		-	-	3.7	3.2	3.1	2.5	2.2	32	63	[67][68]	-
45	Air Asia X	3.3 (Sep)	3.6	4.2	3.2	2.6	-	-	-	18	19	[69][70][71]	-
45	Juneyao Airlines		-	-	-	-	-	3.6	-	34	38	[72]	-
46	Royal Jordanian Airlines		-	-	-	3.4	3.2	-	-	33	61	[73]	oneworld
47	Uzbekistan Airways		-	-	2.7	2.6	-	-	-	37	58	[74]	-
48	Iran Aseman Airlines		-	2.6	3.5	3.6	-	3.4	-	34	53	[75]	-
48	Kuwait Airways		-	-	-	-	-	2.6	-	17	34	[76]	-
50	Middle East Airlines		-	-	-	2.2	2.1	-	-	21	33	[77]	SkyTeam
52	Ata Airlines		-	1.9	1.6	1.1	-	-	-	10	19	[78]	-
53	Turkmenistan Airlines		-	-	-	1.8	-	-	-	25	23	[79]	-
53	Air Macau		-	-	1.8	1.6	1.4	-	-	15	23	[80][81]	-
55	Kish Air		-	1.6	1.5	1.6	1.4	-	-	11	18	[82]	-
55	Biman Bangladesh Airlines		-	-	1.6	1.5	1.3	-	-	14	15		-

Notes

^1 Includes figures for Shanghai Airlines and China United Airlines.
^2 Includes figures for AirAsia Philippines (includes AirAsia Zest), Indonesia AirAsia and Thai AirAsia.
^3 Includes figures for Air Japan, ANA Wings and Vanilla Air.
^4 Includes figures for J-Air and JAL Express.
^5 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar.
^6 Includes figures for Batik Air, Wings Air, Malindo Air and Thai Lion Air.
^7 Includes figures for Dragonair.
^8 Includes figures for Chang An Airlines, China Xinhua Airlines and Shan Xi Airlines.
^9 Includes figures for t and Silkair.
^10 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar. Includes figures for JetKonnect.
^11 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar. Includes figures for Air India Express and Air India Regional.
^12 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar.
^13 Includes figures for Jin Air.
^14 Includes figures for Thai Smile.
^15 Includes figures for Firefly and MASwings.
^16 Includes figures for Air Busan.
^17 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar.
^18 Includes figures for Mandarin Airlines.
^19 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar.
^20 Includes figures for PAL Express.
^21 Includes figures for Citilink
^22 Includes figures for Cebgo