The World’s Largest Airlines

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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.

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By Passengers carried (thousands)

Rank	Airline	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011
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 Air Lines	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

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By scheduled passenger-kilometres flown (millions)

Rank	Airline	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011
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)

Rank	Airline	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011
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

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By fleet size

Rank	Airline	Fleet (June 2016)
1	American Airlines	1,789
2	Delta Air Lines	1,330
3	United Airlines	1,229
4	Southwest Airlines	720
5	FedEx Express	688
6	China Southern Airlines	515
7	China Eastern Airlines	429
8	Air Canada	404
9	Air China	384
10	Ryanair	349