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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,destinations served, 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
Rank | Airline | Country | Revenue (US$B) |
Profit (US$B) |
Assets (US$B) |
Market cap. (US$B) |
Em- ploy- ees |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | American Airlines Group[2] | United States | 40.99 | 7.61 | 48.41 | 22.1 | 118,500 |
2 | Delta Air Lines | United States | 40.5 | 4.7 | 53.3 | 34.4 | 80,000 |
3 | United Continental Holdings | United States | 37.5 | 7.1 | 40.9 | 17.1 | 83,000 |
4 | Lufthansa | Germany | 35.5 | 1.9 | 36.3 | 7.3 | 120,652 |
5 | Air France-KLM | France/ Netherlands | 28.9 | 0.131 | 25.3 | 2.7 | 96,417 |
6 | International Airlines Group | Spain/ United Kingdom | 25.3 | 1.7 | 30.7 | 15.4 | 60,862 |
7 | Southwest Airlines | United States | 20.2 | 2.2 | 22.2 | 30.2 | 49,600 |
8 | China Southern Airlines | China | 17.7 | 0.620 | 28.7 | 8.4 | 87,202 |
9 | China Eastern Airlines | China | 14.9 | 0.730 | 30.1 | 10.9 | 71,033 |
10 | All Nippon Airways | Japan | 14.7 | 0.497 | 19.1 | 9.9 | 33,719 |
Note that Emirates 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
Rank | Airline | Country | 2016[3] | 2015[4] | 2014[5] | 2013[6] | 2012[7] | 2011[8] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | American Airlines | United States | 198,700,000 | 146,530,000 | 87,830,000 | 86,823,000 | 86,335,000 | 86,042,000 |
2 | Delta Air Lines | United States | 183,700,000 | 138,842,000 | 129,433,000 | 120,636,000 | 116,726,000 | 113,731,000 |
3 | Southwest Airlines | United States | 151,800,000 | 144,575,000 | 129,087,000 | 115,323,000 | 112,234,000 | 110,587,000 |
4 | United Airlines | United States | 143,200,000 | 95,384,000 | 90,439,000 | 90,161,000 | 92,619,000 | 50,473,000 |
5 | Ryanair | Ireland | 119,800,000 | 101,401,000 | 86,370,000 | 81,395,000 | 79,649,000 | 76,422,000 |
6 | China Southern Airlines | China | 84,900,000 | 109,301,000 | 100,683,000 | 91,504,000 | 86,277,000 | 80,545,000 |
7 | China Eastern Airlines | China | 80,900,000 | 75,139,000 | 66,174,000 | 62,653,000 | 79,611,000 | |
8 | easyJet | United Kingdom | 73,100,000 | 70,232,000 | 62,309,000 | 58,410,000 | ||
9 | Turkish Airlines | Turkey | 62,800,000 | 60,198,000 | ||||
10 | Lufthansa | Germany | 62,400,000 | 59,850,000 | 63,273,000 | 64,393,000 | 63,012,000 | |
Air China | China | 58,661,000 | 54,674,000 |
The IATA reports numbers for individual air operator's certificates and groups of multiple airlines can report larger numbers.
By scheduled passenger-kilometres flown (millions)
Airline holding groups
Rank | Group | Country | 2016[3] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | American Airlines Group | United States | 359,574 |
2 | Delta Air Lines | United States | 342,860 |
3 | United Continental Holdings | United States | 338,388 |
4 | The Emirates Group | United Arab Emirates | 276,608 |
5 | International Airlines Group | Spain/ United Kingdom | 243,474 |
6 | Air France-KLM | France/ Netherlands | 238,183 |
7 | Lufthansa Group | Germany | 226,633 |
8 | China Southern Airlines | China | 206,092 |
9 | Southwest Airlines | United States | 200,964 |
10 | Air China | China | 188,137 |
Individual airlines
Rank | Airline | Country | 2016[9] | 2015[10] | 2014[11] | 2013[12] | 2012[13] | 2011[14] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | American Airlines | United States | 320,044 | 320,813 | 208,046 | 206,551 | 203,336 | 203,485 |
2 | Delta Air Lines | United States | 308,088 | 302,512 | 290,862 | 277,560 | 271,567 | 269,724 |
3 | United Airlines | United States | 299,080 | 294,970 | 287,547 | 286,802 | 288,282 | 160,270 |
4 | Emirates | United Arab Emirates | 270,797 | 251,190 | 230,855 | 209,377 | 180,880 | 153,264 |
5 | Southwest Airlines | United States | 200,848 | 189,097 | 162,445 | 145,124 | 137,708 | 134,918 |
6 | China Southern Airlines | China | 205,720 | 189,186 | 166,074 | 147,841 | 135,021 | 121,944 |
7 | Lufthansa | Germany | 149,702 | 145,904 | 143,403 | 144,236 | 142,512 | 140,972 |
8 | British Airways | United Kingdom | 144,028 | 140,780 | 137,204 | 130,129 | 124,318 | 116,864 |
9 | Ryanair | Ireland | 142,740 | 125,194 | ||||
10 | China Eastern | China | 138,042 |
By scheduled freight tonne-kilometres (millions)
Rank | Airline | Country | 2016[9] | 2015[10] | 2014[15] | 2013[16] | 2012[17] | 2011[18] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | FedEx Express | United States | 15,712 | 15,799 | 16,020 | 16,127 | 16,108 | 15,939 |
2 | Emirates SkyCargo | United Arab Emirates | 12,270 | 12,157 | 11,240 | 10,459 | 9,319 | 8,132 |
3 | UPS Airlines | United States | 11,264 | 10,807 | 10,936 | 10,584 | 10,416 | 10,566 |
4 | Cathay Pacific Cargo | Hong Kong | 9,947 | 9,935 | 9,464 | 8,241 | 8,433 | 9,109 |
5 | Qatar Airways Cargo | Qatar | 9,221 | 7,660 | 5,997 | 4,972 | ||
5 | Korean Air Cargo | South Korea | 7,666 | 7,761 | 8,079 | 7,666 | 8,144 | 8,974 |
7 | Lufthansa Cargo | Germany | 7,384 | 6,888 | 7,054 | 7,218 | 7,175 | 7,674 |
8 | Cargolux | Luxembourg | 6,878 | 6,309 | 5,753 | 5,225 | ||
9 | Singapore Airlines Cargo | Singapore | 6,345 | 6,083 | 6,019 | 6,240 | 6,694 | 7,118 |
10 | Air China Cargo | China | 6,089 | 5,718 |
By fleet size
Rank | Airline | Country | Fleet (June 2016)[19] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | American Airlines | United States | 1,556[a] |
2 | Delta Air Lines | United States | 1,330[a] |
3 | United Airlines | United States | 1,229[a] |
4 | Southwest Airlines | United States | 720 |
5 | FedEx Express | United States | 688 |
6 | China Southern Airlines | China | 515 |
7 | SkyWest Airlines | United States | 431 |
8 | China Eastern Airlines | China | 429 |
9 | Ryanair | Ireland | 420 |
10 | Air Canada | Canada | [a] | 404
By number of countries served
Rank | Airline | Country | Countries served (Aug 2017)[20] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Turkish Airlines | Turkey | 120 |
2 | Lufthansa | Germany | 83 |
3 | Air France | France | 78 |
3 | British Airways | United Kingdom | 78 |
5 | Qatar Airways | Qatar | 73 |
6 | Delta Air Lines | United States | 71 |
7 | Emirates | United Arab Emirates | 70 |
8 | KLM | Netherlands | 66 |
8 | Egyptair | Egypt | 66 |
10 | United Airlines | United States | 60 |
By number of destinations
Rank | Airline | Country | Destinations served (November 2017) |
---|---|---|---|
1 | American Airlines | United States | 350 [1] |
2 | United Airlines | United States | 342 [2] |
3 | Delta Air Lines | United States | 325 [3] |
4 | Turkish Airlines | Turkey | 302 [4] |
5 | SkyWest Airlines | United States | 235 [5] |
6 | Air Canada | Canada | 222[6] |
7 | Lufthansa | Germany | 220 [7] |
8 | China Eastern Airlines | China | 217 [8] |
9 | China Southern Airlines | China | 208 [9] |
10 | Ryanair | Ireland | 205 [10] |
11 | Air France | France | 204 [11] |
12 | Air China | China | 201 [12] |
13 | British Airways | United Kingdom | 183 [13] |
15 | Norwegian Air Shuttle | Norway | 153 [14] |
16 | Qatar Airways | Qatar | 150 [15] |
17 | S7 Airlines | Russia | 146 [16] |
18 | KLM | Netherlands | 145 [17] |
19 | Emirates | United Arab Emirates | 141 [18] |
20 | Austrian Airlines | Austria | 130 [19] |
See also
- List of largest airlines in North America
- List of largest airlines in Europe
- List of largest airlines in Central America & the Caribbean
- List of largest airlines in Africa
- List of largest airlines in Asia
- List of largest airlines in South America
- List of largest airlines in Oceania
- Flag carrier
- List of the busiest airports in Africa by passenger traffic
- List of the busiest airports in Asia by passenger traffic
- List of the busiest airports in Europe by passenger traffic
- List of busiest airports in Latin America by passenger traffic
- List of airline holding companies
- List of the busiest airports
- List of busiest airports by passenger traffic
- List of busiest airports by aircraft movements
- List of busiest passenger air routes
References
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- ^ "American Airlines group". World’s Biggest Public Companies. Forbes.
- ^ a b "World Airline Rankings". Flight Global. 2017.
- ^ "Global Air Traffic & Top Airlines 2016 (IATA)". IMM International. 28 June 2016.
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