We created a list of the 10 largest airlines in the world based on the total number of seats each carrier made available to customers during 2018. We also added the total number of aircraft in each airline fleet.
|
Airline |
Country |
Capacity
(seats) |
Fleet size
(aircraft) |
| 1 |
American Airlines |
United States |
256,928,663 |
956 |
| 2 |
Delta Air Lines |
United States |
233,758,798 |
879 |
| 3 |
Southwest Airlines |
United States |
209,526,838 |
749 |
| 4 |
United Airlines |
United States |
193,981,547 |
765 |
| 5 |
Ryanair |
Ireland |
142,540,776 |
439 |
| 6 |
China Southern Airlines |
China |
131,972,745 |
597 |
| 7 |
China Eastern Airlines |
China |
122,917,175 |
525 |
| 8 |
EasyJet |
United Kingdom |
100,082,969 |
317 |
| 9 |
Turkish Airlines |
Turkey |
93,109,025 |
350 |
| 10 |
Air China |
China |
90,531,776 |
418 |
