The world's largest airlines can be defined in several ways. American Airlines Group including US Airways is the largest by revenue , by profit and by its fleet size. Delta Air Lines is the biggest by assets and market capitalization , by passengers carried and Revenue Passenger Kilometer until American Airlines operates with a single air operator's certificate . Lufthansa Group is the largest by number of employees , FedEx Express by freight tonne-kilometers and Turkish Airlines by number of countries served.
By Airline Companies revenue [ edit ]
Forbes' World’s Biggest Public Companies[ 1]
Rank
Airline
country
revenue ($B)
profit ($B)
assets ($B)
market cap. ($B)
employees
1
American Airlines Group [ 2]
42.7
2.88
43.8
33.5
113,300
2
Delta Air Lines
40.3
0.659
54.1
34.4
79,655
3
Lufthansa Group
39.8
.073
37.0
6.5
118,781
4
United Continental Holdings
38.9
1.1
37.4
23.1
84,000
5
Air France-KLM
33.1
.263
28.1
2.7
94,666
6
International Airlines Group
26.7
1.3
28.6
18.2
59,484
7
Southwest Airlines
18.6
1.1
20.2
27.7
46,278
8
China Southern Airlines
17.6
.288
30.6
11.7
82,132
9
All Nippon Airways
15.9
.358
19.3
9.7
33,719
10
China Eastern Airlines
14.6
.554
26.4
12.7
69,849
Note that Emirates Airlines is a government-owned company and is thus not included in this list of public companies. Its 2014-2015 revenue was AD 88.819 billion (US$ 24.2 billion), profit AD 4.555 billion (US$ 1.24 billion), and assets AD 111.362 billion (US$ 30.34 ) billion with 56,725 employees.[ 3]
By passengers carried (thousands) [ edit ]
Rank
Airline
2014[ 4]
2013[ 5]
2012[ 6]
2011[ 7]
1
Delta Air Lines
129,433
120,636
116,726
113,731
2
Southwest Airlines
129,087
115,323
112,234
110,587
3
China Southern Airlines
100,683
91,504
86,277
80,545
4
United Airlines
90,439
90,161
92,619
50,473
5
American Airlines
87,830
86,823
86,335
86,042
6
Ryanair
86,370
81,395
79,649
76,422
7
LATAM
67,833
66,696
64,983
8
China Eastern Airlines
66,174
62,653
79,611
53,933
9
EasyJet
62,309
58,410
10
Lufthansa
59,850
63,273
64,393
63,012
11
Turkish Airlines
54,675
48,268
39,045
32,649
12
Air China
54,674
13
US Airways
56,708
54,238
52,921
14
Air France
50,636
49,769
By Scheduled Passenger - Kilometres Flown (Millions) [ edit ]
Rank
Airline
2014[ 8]
2013[ 9]
2012[ 10]
2011[ 11]
1
Delta Air Lines
290,862
277,560
271,567
269,724
2
United Airlines
287,547
286,802
288,282
160,270
3
Emirates
230,855
209,377
180,880
153,264
4
American Airlines
208,046
206,551
203,336
203,485
5
China Southern Airlines
166,074
147,841
135,021
121,944
6
Southwest Airlines
162,445
145,124
137,708
134,918
7
Lufthansa
143,403
144,236
142,512
140,972
8
British Airways
137,204
130,129
124,318
116,864
9
Air France
134,528
136,405
135,821
133,035
10
Air China
112,247
11
Qantas
110,203
108,051
12
Continental Airlines
131,583
By Scheduled Freight Tonne - Kilometres (millions) [ edit ]
Rank
Airline
2014[ 12]
2013 [ 13]
2012 [ 14]
2011 [ 15]
1
FedEx Express
16,020
16,127
16,108
15,939
2
Emirates SkyCargo
11,240
10,459
9,319
8,132
3
UPS Airlines
10,936
10,584
10,416
10,566
4
Cathay Pacific Cargo
9,464
8,241
8,433
9,109
5
Korean Air Cargo
8,079
7,666
8,144
8,974
6
Lufthansa Cargo
7,054
7,218
7,175
7,674
7
Singapore Airlines Cargo
6,019
6,240
6,694
7,118
8
Qatar Airways Cargo
5,997
4,972
9
Cargolux
5,753
5,225
10
China Airlines Cargo
5,266
4,813
4,538
5,411
11
British Airways
4,732
12
EVA Air
4,470
4,882
By fleet size [ edit ]
By number of countries served [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
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