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The world's largest airlines can be defined in several ways.
American Airlines Group is the largest by its fleet size, revenue , profit , passengers carried and revenue passenger mile . Delta Air Lines is the largest by assets value and market capitalization . Lufthansa Group is the largest by number of employees , FedEx Express by freight tonne-kilometers , Ryanair by number of international passengers carried and Turkish Airlines by number of countries served.
By airline companies revenue
American Airlines Boeing 777-200ER
Lufthansa Airbus A380-800
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]
40.99
7.61
48.41
22.1
118,500
2
Delta Air Lines
40.5
4.7
53.3
34.4
83,000
3
United Continental Holdings
37.5
7.1
40.9
17.1
84,000
4
Lufthansa Group
35.5
1.9
36.3
7.3
120,652
5
Air France-KLM
28.9
0.131
25.3
2.7
96,417
6
International Airlines Group
25.3
1.7
30.7
15.4
60,862
7
Southwest Airlines
20.2
2.2
22.2
30.2
49,600
8
China Southern Airlines
17.7
0.620
28.7
8.4
87,202
9
China Eastern Airlines
14.9
0.730
30.1
10.9
71,033
10
All Nippon Airways
14.7
0.497
19.1
9.97
33,719
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 DH 88.819 billion (US$ 24.2 billion), profit DH 4.555 billion (US$ 1.24 billion), and assets DH 111.362 billion (US$ 30.34 billion) with 56,725 employees.
By passengers carried (thousands)
Delta Air Lines Boeing 747-400
Rank
Airline
2015[ 3]
2014[ 4]
2013[ 5]
2012[ 6]
2011[ 7]
1
American Airlines
146,530
87,830
86,823
86,335
86,042
2
Southwest Airlines
144,575
129,087
115,323
112,234
110,587
3
Delta Airlines
138,842
129,433
120,636
116,726
113,731
4
China Southern Airlines
109,301
100,683
91,504
86,277
80,545
5
Ryanair
101,401
86,370
81,395
79,649
76,422
6
United Airlines
95,384
90,439
90,161
92,619
50,473
7
China Eastern Airlines
75,139
66,174
62,653
79,611
8
Easyjet
70,232
62,309
58,410
9
Turkish Airlines
60 198
10
Air China
58,661
54,674
Lufthansa
59,850
63,273
64,393
63,012
LATAM carried 67.833 million passengers in 2014, more than China Eastern, and Turkish Airlines 54.675, more than Air China. These reports are not given by the IATA and could be from multiple air operator's certificates .
By scheduled passenger-kilometres flown (millions)
United Airlines Boeing 787
Rank
Airline
2015[ 8]
2014[ 9]
2013[ 10]
2012[ 11]
2011[ 12]
1
American Airlines
320,813
208,046
206,551
203,336
203,485
2
Delta Air Lines
302,512
290,862
277,560
271,567
269,724
3
United Airlines
294,970
287,547
286,802
288,282
160,270
4
Emirates
251,190
230,855
209,377
180,880
153,264
5
China Southern Airlines
189,186
166,074
147,841
135,021
121,944
6
Southwest Airlines
189,097
162,445
145,124
137,708
134,918
7
Lufthansa
145,904
143,403
144,236
142,512
140,972
8
British Airways
140,780
137,204
130,129
124,318
116,864
9
Air France
139,217
134,528
136,405
135,821
133,035
10
Ryanair
125,194
By scheduled freight tonne-kilometres (millions)
FedEx Express McDonnell Douglas MD-11F
Rank
Airline
2015[ 8]
2014[ 13]
2013[ 14]
2012[ 15]
2011[ 16]
1
FedEx Express
15,799
16,020
16,127
16,108
15,939
2
Emirates SkyCargo
12,157
11,240
10,459
9,319
8,132
3
UPS Airlines
10,807
10,936
10,584
10,416
10,566
4
Cathay Pacific Cargo
9,935
9,464
8,241
8,433
9,109
5
Korean Air Cargo
7,761
8,079
7,666
8,144
8,974
6
Qatar Airways Cargo
7,660
5,997
4,972
7
Lufthansa Cargo
6,888
7,054
7,218
7,175
7,674
8
Cargolux
6,309
5,753
5,225
9
Singapore Airlines Cargo
6,083
6,019
6,240
6,694
7,118
10
Air China Cargo
5,718
China Airlines Cargo
5,266
4,813
4,538
5,411
By fleet size
Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700
^ a b c d Includes aircraft operated by regional partners
^ Includes aircraft operated by Air China Cargo
By number of countries served
Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300ER
China Eastern Airlines Airbus A330-200
See also
References
^ "Global 2000 Leading Companies" . Forbes . May 2016.
^ "American Airlines group" . World’s Biggest Public Companies . Forbes .
^ "Global Air Traffic & Top Airlines 2016 (IATA)" . IMM International. 28 June 2016.
^ "Scheduled Passengers Carried" . World Air Transport Statistics 59th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on June 18, 2015.
^ "Scheduled Passengers Carried" . World Air Transport Statistics 58th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on January 2, 2015.
^ "Scheduled Passengers Carried" . World Air Transport Statistics 57th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on November 13, 2013.
^ "Scheduled Passengers Carried" . World Air Transport Statistics 56th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on December 17, 2012.
^ a b "Summary of passenger and freight traffic" (PDF) . World Air Transport Statistics . IATA . 2016.
^ "Scheduled Passenger - Kilometres Flown" . World Air Transport Statistics 59th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on July 6, 2015.
^ "Scheduled Passenger - Kilometres Flown" . World Air Transport Statistics 58th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on November 11, 2014.
^ "Scheduled Passenger - Kilometres Flown" . World Air Transport Statistics 57th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on October 29, 2013.
^ "Scheduled Passenger - Kilometres Flown" . World Air Transport Statistics 56th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on December 16, 2012.
^ "Scheduled Freight Tonne - Kilometres" . World Air Transport Statistics 59th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on July 4, 2015.
^ "Scheduled Freight Tonne - Kilometres" . World Air Transport Statistics 58th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on November 25, 2014.
^ "Scheduled Freight Tonne - Kilometres" . World Air Transport Statistics 57th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on September 21, 2013.
^ "Scheduled Freight Tonne - Kilometres" . World Air Transport Statistics 56th Edition . IATA . Archived from the original on December 15, 2012.
^ "Top 10 World's Largest Airlines" . AirportSpotting. 7 July 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016 .
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