Top 10 Airline Companies In the World
The global airline industry was worth $686 billion in 2020. It employed 10.2 million workers, funded 65.5 million jobs and $2.7 trillion of economic activity: 3.6% of the global GDP. Over four billion passengers have been carried by airlines in 41.9 million commercial flights. An airline is a company that offers air transport services for travelling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to offer these services and may form alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in which they both offer and manage the same flight. The largest alliances are Star Alliance, SkyTeam and Oneworld, and these three altogether manages more than 60% of global commercial air traffic.
The industry includes passenger transportation on scheduled and nonscheduled routes both domestically and internationally, as well as cargo airlines. There are several different ways to define the biggest airlines including revenues, the number of employees, or fleet size. The largest airline by passengers carried and fleet size was the American Airlines Group, Delta Air Lines was the largest by revenue, assets value and market capitalization. Lufthansa Group was the largest by several employees, FedEx Express by freight tonne-kilometres, Turkish Airlines by several countries served, Ryanair by several routes and UPS Airlines by several destinations served.
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10. All Nippon Airways :-
All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. is the largest airline in Japan by revenues and passenger numbers. It is headquartered in Shiodome City Center in the Shiodome area of Minato ward of Tokyo. The airline company founded in 27 December 1952 as Japan Helicopter and Aeroplane. The airline is a member of Star Alliance. The company operates 219 passenger planes.
ANA operates several subsidiary passenger carriers, including its regional airline, ANA Wings, Air Nippon, Air Do, and Allex Cargo. It conducts services to both domestic and international destinations and had more than 20,000 employees. ANA has an extensive domestic route network that covers the entirety of Japan. ANA's international route network expands through China, Korea, India, Southeast Asia, Canada, United States, Mexico, Australia, and Western Europe.
9. China Southern Airlines :-
China Southern Airlines Company Limited is one of China's "Big Three" airlines alongside Air China and China Eastern Airlines, the world's sixth-largest airline measured by passengers carried and Asia's largest airline in fleet size, revenue, and passengers carried. The parent company of China Southern Airlines Company Limited is China Southern Air Holding Company, a state-owned enterprise that was supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. It is headquartered in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. The company was founded in 1 July 1988 after the restructuring of the CAAC Airlines that acquired and merged a number of domestic airlines.
It operates fleet size of 635 planes. The company controls subsidiaries including Chongqing Airlines, GAMECO, Sichuan Airlines, XiamenAir, Xiongan Airlines. The airline operates more than 2,000 flights daily. China Southern Airlines serves 193 destinations in 35 different countries worldwide. China Southern is also considering promoting into the South American markets, as well as further expansion into the African market.
8. Southwest Airlines :-
Southwest Airlines Co. is one of the major airlines of the United States and the world's largest low-cost carrier. Southwest carried more domestic passengers than any other United States airline. Southwest is the only low cost carrier that is also a Legacy carrier. It is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It was founded in March 15, 1967 as Air Southwest by Herbert Kelleher, Rollin King.
Southwest Airlines operates 737 aircraft. Southwest is the largest operator of the Boeing 737 worldwide. It provides service to 121 destinations in the United States and ten additional countries including Puerto Rico, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. The airline has nearly 60,000 employees and operates about 4,000 departures a day during peak travel season.
7. Emirates :-
Emirates is the largest airline and one of two flag carriers of the United Arab Emirates. It is headquartered in Garhoud, Dubai. The airline is a subsidiary of The Emirates Group, which is owned by the government of Dubai's Investment Corporation of Dubai. Emirates is the world's fourth largest airline by scheduled revenue passenger-kilometers flown and the second-largest in terms of freight tonne kilometers flown. It was founded in 25 March 1985. It had revenue of US$ 16.7 billion and has 59,519 employees.
It controls subsidiaries including Arabian Adventures, Congress Solutions International, Emirates Holidays, Emirates Tours. It is also the largest airline in the Middle East, operating over 3,600 flights per week to 140 destinations in over 70 countries across six continents from its hub in Dubai. Emirates operates a fleet of 252 passenger aircraft and 11 cargo aircraft operated by Emirates SkyCargo. Emirates operates the largest fleet of both the Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 aircraft in the world, with one A319 as an executive jet.
6. IAG :-
International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A., is an Anglo Spanish multinational airline company. It has registered office in Madrid, Spain, and has global headquarters in London, England. It was formed in January 2011 after a merger between British Airways and Iberia. It had revenue of €7.806 billion and has 60,612 employees.
It controls subsidiaries including Aer Lingus, Air Nostrum Iberia Regional, British Airways, IAG Cargo, Iberia, Iberia Express, LEVEL, Vueling. It provides services including Airline services, Passenger air transport services, Air freight services. British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Vueling and LEVEL operate under their separate brand names.
The entire company serves around 200 destinations.
5. Air France–KLM :-
Air France–KLM S.A., also known as Air France–KLM Group, is a Franco-Dutch airline holding company. It is headquartered in Charles de Gaulle Airport in Tremblay-en-France, near Paris. Air France–KLM is established in 2004 by merger between Air France and KLM. Both Air France and KLM are members of the SkyTeam airline alliance.
It had revenue of €27.189 billion and has 86,138 employees. Air France and KLM offeres flights to 225 destinations in the world. The two companies combined carried 66.3 million passengers.
4. United Airlines :-
United Airlines Holdings, Inc. Is an airline company. It is headquartered in the Willis Tower in Chicago. UAH owns and operates United Airlines, Inc. It is headquartered in Willis Tower, Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in December 30, in Chicago, Illinois. United is the world's largest airline, as measured by revenue passenger miles. United is a founding member of the Star Alliance. It had revenue of US$ 43.259 and has 93,000 employees.
The company controls subsidiaries including United Airlines, United Express, Air Wisconsin, CommutAir, GoJet Airlines, Mesa Airlines, Republic Airways, SkyWest Airlines. United Airlines and United Express operate more than 4,500 flights a day to 339 destinations; 140 million customers were carried on 1.5 million flights. United Airlines operates more than 750 mainline aircraft.
3. Lufthansa Group :-
Lufthansa Group is the flag carrier and largest airline of Germany.
And combined with its subsidiaries, it is the second-largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried. It is headquartered in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 6 January 1953. It had revenue of €36.42 billion and has 138,353 employees. Lufthansa is one of the five founding members of Star Alliance.
Lufthansa Group also holds and operates Lufthansa, Air Dolomiti, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, Swiss International Air Lines, Lufthansa Cargo. Deutsche Lufthansa AG owns several aviation-related companies, such as Lufthansa Technik and LSG Sky Chefs. The group operates over 700 aircraft, making it one of the largest airline fleets in the world. It operates flights to 220 destinations.
2. American Airlines Group :-
American Airlines Group Inc. is an American publicly airline company. It is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It was formed on December 9, 2013, by the merger of AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, and US Airways Group, the parent company of US Airways. All flights now operate under the American Airlines brand. The group operates the largest airline in the world, as measured by number of passengers carried, by fleet size and by scheduled passenger-kilometers flown.
It controls subsidiaries including American Airlines, Envoy Air, Piedmont Airlines, PSA Airlines. It had revenue of US$17.335 billion and has 133,700 employees. It offers flights to 350 destinations. The airline operates over 1,547 aircraft.
1. Delta Air Lines :-
Delta Air Lines, Inc. is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. It is ranked second among the world's largest airlines by number of scheduled passengers carried, revenue passenger-kilometers flown, and fleet size. It was founded on March 2, 1925 as Huff Daland Dusters in Macon, Georgia. Delta Air Service was incorporated on December 3, 1928 and named after the Mississippi Delta region. Delta is a founding member of the SkyTeam airline alliance.
It had revenue of US$47.007 billion and has 91,000 employees. It controls subsidiaries Delta Private Jets, Endeavor Air, LATAM Airlines, Virgin Atlantic. The airline, along with its subsidiaries operates over 5,400 flights daily and serves 325 destinations in 52 countries on six continents. Delta and its worldwide alliance partners operate more than 15,000 flights per day. Delta operated a fleet of 750 aircraft manufactured by Airbus and Boeing. Delta operates the largest Boeing 717, Boeing 757, and Boeing 767 fleets in the world, and the largest Airbus A330 fleet of any US airline.
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