World's largest airlines

The world's largest airlines can be defined in several ways. American Airlines Group is the largest by its fleet size, revenue and profit but Delta Air Lines is the biggest by assets and market capitalization, by passengers carried and revenue passenger mile. 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

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]		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	United Continental Holdings		38.9	1.1	37.4	23.1	84,000
4	Lufthansa Group		33.8	.058	33.4	6.15	118,781
5	Air France-KLM		27.8	.263	25.4	2.7	94,666
6	International Airlines Group		22.7	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 AD88.819 billion (US$24.2 billion), profit AD4.555 billion (US$1.24 billion), and assets AD111.362 billion (US$30.34 billion) with 56,725 employees.^[3]

By passengers carried (thousands)

Delta Air Lines Boeing 747-400

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
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)

United Airlines Boeing 787

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	Lufthansa	143,403	144,236	142,512	140,972
5	China Southern Airlines	166,074	147,841	135,021	121,944
6	Southwest Airlines	162,445	145,124	137,708	134,918
7	British Airways	137,204	130,129	124,318	116,864
8	Air France	134,528	136,405	135,821	133,035
9	Air China	112,247
10	Qantas		110,203	108,051
11	Continental Airlines				131,583

By scheduled freight tonne-kilometres (millions)

FedEx Express McDonnell Douglas MD-11F

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

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700

Rank	Airline (including contract carriers)	Fleet[16]
1	American Airlines Group	1,494
2	Delta Air Lines	1,280
3	United Airlines	1,264
4	Southwest Airlines	683
5	FedEx Express	634
6	Lufthansa Group	616
7	Air France-KLM	572
8	International Airlines Group	525
9	China Southern Airlines	509
10	Air Canada	408
11	China Eastern Airlines	405
13	Ryanair	321
12	Air China	338
14	LATAM	320
15	Turkish Airlines	300

By number of countries served

Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300ER

Rank	Airline	countries served[17]
1	Turkish Airlines	111 [18]
2	Lufthansa	83
3	Emirates	83
4	KLM	78
5	Air France	78
6	British Airways	78
7	Qatar Airways	74
8	United Airlines	73
9	Delta Air Lines	71
10	Singapore Airlines	66

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