List of largest airlines in Europe

The following is a list of the largest airlines in Europe by total scheduled and chartered passengers, in millions. The list includes companies headquartered in the Asian portions of Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.

Rank	Country	Airline/Holding	'19	'18	'17	'16	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	'09	'08	'07	'06	Fleet	Destinations	Sources	Alliance	Association
1	Germany Austria Belgium Switzerland Italy	Lufthansa Group1	135.33 (Nov)	142.3	130.04	117.4	115.2	112.5	110.4	108.9	112.0	95.1	81.2	76.4	68.8	59.1	728	321	[1][2]	Star Alliance	A4E
2	Ireland Austria Poland United Kingdom	Ryanair2	141.2 (Nov)	139.2	128.77	116.8	101.4	86.4	81.4	79.6	76.4	72.7	65.3	57.7	49.0	40.5	430	186	[3] [4]		A4E
3	United Kingdom Ireland Spain France Austria	International Airlines Group3	100.81 (Oct)	112.92	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	[5]	oneworld	A4E
4	France Netherlands	Air France-KLM4	88.75 (Oct)	101.45	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	[6][7]	SkyTeam	A4E
5	United Kingdom Switzerland Austria	easyJet5	41.60 (Jun)	88.04	81.63	74.5	69.9	65.3	61.4	59.2	55.5	49.7	46.1	44.6	38.2	33.0	300	136	[8]		A4E
6	Turkey	Turkish Airlines6	63.06 (Oct)	75.16	68.61	62.8	61.2	54.8	48.3	39.0	32.6	29.1	25.1	22.6	19.6	16.9	346	315	[9][10]	Star Alliance	AIRE
7	Russia	Aeroflot Group7	51.93 (Oct)	55.71	50.13	43.4	39.4	34.7	31.4	27.5	16.4	14.1	11.1	11.6	10.2	8.7	371	189	[11]	SkyTeam
8	Norway Sweden Ireland United Kingdom Argentina	Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA	31.74 (Oct)	37.34	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	[12]		A4E
9	Hungary United Kingdom	Wizz Air9	36.48 (Nov)	33.81	28.27	22.78	19.2	15.8	13.5	12.0	11.2	9.6	7.8	5.8	4.2	3.0	100	144	[13]
10	Sweden Norway Denmark Ireland	SAS Group8	25.39 (Oct)	30.0	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	[14]	Star Alliance
11	Turkey	Pegasus Airlines	22.45 (Sep)	29.97	27.82	24.14	22.3	19.7	16.8	13.6	11.3	8.6	5.9	4.4	-	3.1	83	109	[15]
12	Italy	Alitalia10		21.49	21.7	22.6	23.0	23.2	24.0	24.3	25.0	23.4	22.0	18.0	24.4	24.1	103	123	[16]	SkyTeam
13	Russia	S7 Group12	15.36 (Oct)	15.96	14.25	13.15	10.6	10.1	9.3	8.3	5.1	4.8	5.6	5.9	5.7	4.9	100	121	[17]	oneworld
14	Portugal	TAP Air Portugal11	9.7 (Jul)	15.89	14.27	11.72	11.3	11.4	10.7	10.2	9.8	9.1	8.4	8.7	7.9	6.9	110	88	[18]	Star Alliance	A4E
15	Greece Cyprus	Aegean Airlines13	11.63 (Sep)	13.97	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	[19]	Star Alliance	A4E
16	Finland	Finnair	12.41 (Oct)	13.28	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	[20]	oneworld	A4E
17	United Kingdom	Jet2.com		12.09	9.64	6.67	5.85	6.0	5.5	4.8	4.2	3.3	3.1	3.4	3.9	2.8	90	50	[21]		A4E
18	Spain	Air Europa		11.84	10.6	10.6	10.2	8.1	9.0	8.1	8.7	8.9	9.0	9.7	9.9	8.1	59	42	[22]	SkyTeam
19	Poland Estonia Hungary	LOT Polish Airlines15		10.61	6.89	5.58	6.1	5.9	6.3	5.8	5.5	5.0	4.0	4.3	3.7	-	91	111	[23][24]	Star Alliance	AIRE ERA
20	United Kingdom Jersey	flybe14		9.03	9.05	8.4		7.7	7.5	7.6	7.2	7.2	7.3	6.8	7.0	5.2	76	77	[25]		ERA
21	Russia	Ural Airlines	7.8 (Oct)	9.0	8.0	6.47	5.4	5.1	4.4	3.5	2.5	1.8	1.5	1.5	1.2	1.0	47	66	[26]	n/a
22	Czech Republic	SmartWings Group 16		8.8	8.17	7.3		6.57	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	57	?	[27][28]	n/a
23	Ukraine	Ukraine International Airlines		8.08	6.93	6.0	4.8	3.8	4.5	2.8	1.9	1.7	0.8	1.7	0.3	-	42	80	[29]	-	AIRE
24	Russia	UTair Aviation17	6.94 (Oct)	7.65	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	[30]	-
25	Spain	Volotea		6.57	4.82	4.3			1.8	1.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	60	[31]	A4E
26	United Kingdom	Virgin Atlantic		5.4	5.20	5.20	5.94	6.2	5.5	5.4	5.3	5.3	5.7	5.7	5.1	4.6	40	37	[32]	-
27	Russia	Azur Air	5.11 (Oct)	4.24	3.75	2.34	2.35	0.21	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	27
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	29	104	[33]	n/a
29	Russia	Nordwind Airlines	4.85 (Oct)	4.92	3.55	1.79	2.67	4.47	3.66	2.17	1.72	1.19	-	-	-	-	26	97	[34]	n/a
30	Kazakhstan	Air Astana		4.32	4.19	3.75	3.86	3.77	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	34	69	[35]	-
31	Iceland	Icelandair Group 18		4.14	4.05	3.67	3.0	2.9	2.6	2.4	1.8	1.7	1.8	1.5	1.6	1.5	28	36	[36]	n/a	A4E
32	Latvia	AirBaltic		4.14	3.52	2.89	2.6	2.8	2.9	3.1	3.4	3.2	2.8	-	2.0	1.4	32	60	[37]	n/a	A4E
33	Belarus	Belavia			3.0	2.49		-	1.6	1.3	1.0	-	0.7	-	-	-	29	48	[38]	n/a
34	Iceland	WOW air		3.5	2.8	1.6	0.7	0.49	0.4	0.09	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	38	[39]	n/a	-
35	Russia	Red Wings Airlines	2.74 (Oct)	2.62	1.62	0.92	1.04	0.92	0.35	0.82	0.78	0.88	-	-	-	-	18	20		n/a
36	Serbia	Air Serbia		2.48	2.61	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
37	Romania	TAROM			2.4	2.4	2.4	2.2	2.1	2.2	2.2	2.2	1.7	2.0	1.9	1.5	25	50	[43]	SkyTeam
38	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan Airlines		0.47 (March)	2.29			-	-	-	1.4	1.0	-	-	-	-	28	22	[44]	n/a
39	Croatia	Croatia Airlines	0.96 (Jun)	2.17	2.125	1.94	1.8	1.8	1.8	2.0	1.9	1.6	1.8	1.7	1.5	-	13	40	[45][46][47]	Star Alliance	AIRE
40	Italy	Air Italy19		1.91	2.44	2.63		-	-	3.7	4.4	4.5	1.6	2.0	1.9	1.5	13	26	[48][49]	n/a
41	Russia	Pegas Fly	1.96 (Oct)	2.02	1.38	0.99	1.08	1.24	0.28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	29		n/a
42	Luxembourg	Luxair		2.13	1.93	1.84	1.81	1.68	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	-	17	59	[50][51]	n/a	A4E
43	Russia	Smartavia	1.72 (Oct)	1.19	1.09	0.96	0.728	0.763	0.765	0.814	1.47	1.4	-	-	-	-	10	30	[52]	n/a
44	Russia	Yamal Airlines	1.55 (Oct)	1.97	1.79	1.45	1.43	1.45	1.3	0.91	0.57	0.5	-	-	-	-	36	38		n/a
45	Malta	Air Malta		1.7	1.5			-	-	1.7	1.8	-	-	-	-	-	8	37	[53][54]	n/a
46	Russia	Royal Flight	1.99 (Oct)	1.73	1.5	0.99	0.87	0.62	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	13		n/a
47	Russia	NordStar	1.1 (Oct)	1.42	1.4	1.29	1.13	1.1	1.24	1.16	0.77	0.54	-	-	-	-	15	50		n/a
48	Bulgaria	Bulgaria Air		1.30	1.28	1.25	1.28	1.40	-	-	-	-	-	1.20	1.12	-	10	26	[55]	n/a
49	Slovenia	Adria Airways (Operations stopped as of September 24th 2019)		1.23	1.2	1.1	1.24	1.1	1.0	1.0	1.2	-	-	-	-	-	12	23	[56][57]	Star Alliance	AIRE
50	Russia	I-Fly		1.13	0.75	0.4	0.61	0.97	1.05	0.63	0.41	0.38	-	-	-	-	10	30	[58]	n/a
51	Poland	Enter Air		1.12	1.17	1.11	1.17	-	-	-	-	-	1.2	-	-	19	74	n/a	n/a
52	Greece	Ellinair		1.04	0.79	0.57	0.31	0.14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	30	[59]
53	Ukraine	SkyUp	1.2 (Sep)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	49	[60]

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 Lauda Motion.
• ^3 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).
• ^4 Includes Air France ( inc. HOP! and Transavia France) and KLM (inc. KLM cityhopper, and Transavia).
• ^5 Includes EasyJet Switzerland.
• ^6 Includes Anadolu Jet.
• ^7 Includes Rossiya Airlines, Pobeda and Aurora.
• ^8 Includes Scandinavian Airlines, Blue1 and Widerøe.
• ^9 Includes Wizz Air Ukraine and Wizz Air Serbia. (Wizz Air UK not involved)
• ^10 Includes Alitalia CityLiner.
• ^11 Includes TAP Express.
• ^12 Includes Globus.
• ^13 Includes Olympic Air. Aegean Airlines has airline base in Larnaca International Airport
• ^14 Includes Loganair (inc. Suckling Airways).
• ^15 Includes LOT Charters.
• ^16 Includes Czech Airlines, SmartWings, Travel Service (Hungary), Travel Service (Slovakia) and Travel Service Polska.
• ^17 Includes UTair-Cargo and Turuhan Airlines.
• ^18 Includes Icelandair and Air Iceland.
• ^19 Formerly Meridiana.
• ^20 Includes Arkefly, Corsair International, Jetairfly, Thomson Airways, TUIfly and TUIfly Nordic.
• ^21 Includes Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium and Condor Airlines.
• WizzAir UK stats may not be released yet.

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 January 2018.