Top 100 biggest airlines

- by number of daily departures

UPDATED 2023-09-19

This is a list of the 100 biggest airlines based on number of departures (and not the number of passengers). The number of flights are the daily avarage from one week.

1
American Airlines 5155 flights every day
2
Delta Air Lines 4121 flights every day
3
Southwest Airlines 3929 flights every day
4
United Airlines 3152 flights every day
5
Ryanair 2802 flights every day
6
China Eastern Airlines 2316 flights every day
7
China Southern Airlines 2119 flights every day
8
IndiGo 1933 flights every day
9
easyJet 1526 flights every day
10
Air China 1444 flights every day
11
Turkish Airlines 1193 flights every day
12
ANA 1174 flights every day
13
LATAM Airlines 1088 flights every day
14
Lufthansa 1038 flights every day
15
Air Canada 951 flights every day
16
JetBlue Airways 858 flights every day
17
JAL 817 flights every day
18
Spirit Airlines 785 flights every day
19
Shenzhen Airlines 783 flights every day
20
Azul 779 flights every day
21
Aeroflot 738 flights every day
22
Air France 701 flights every day
23
Alaska Airlines 697 flights every day
24
Hainan Airlines 668 flights every day
25
KLM 658 flights every day
26
Qantas 656 flights every day
27
Xiamen Airlines 637 flights every day
28
Shandong Airlines 612 flights every day
29
Vueling 603 flights every day
30
Sichuan Airlines 592 flights every day
31
British Airways 591 flights every day
32
AVIANCA 516 flights every day
33
Frontier Airlines 503 flights every day
34
Scandinavian Airlines 499 flights every day
35
Aeromexico 458 flights every day
36
Pegasus 455 flights every day
37
Qatar Airways 446 flights every day
38
Eurowings 444 flights every day
39
Emirates 442 flights every day
40
Iberia 440 flights every day
41
Air New Zealand 432 flights every day
42
Volaris 432 flights every day
43
Spring Airlines 431 flights every day
44
AirAsia 417 flights every day
45
Gol 410 flights every day
46
Air India 406 flights every day
47
Wizz Air 402 flights every day
48
Ethiopian Airlines 373 flights every day
49
WestJet 370 flights every day
50
Lion Air 361 flights every day
51
Juneyao Airlines 353 flights every day
52
Vietnam Airlines 338 flights every day
53
VivaAerobus 332 flights every day
54
Jetstar 330 flights every day
55
Tianjin Airlines 327 flights every day
56
Wideroe 325 flights every day
57
Jet2 321 flights every day
58
Citilink 318 flights every day
59
Austrian 312 flights every day
60
Malaysia Airlines 312 flights every day
61
SWISS 310 flights every day
62
Batik Air 309 flights every day
63
Alitalia 308 flights every day
64
VietJet Air 308 flights every day
65
Gestair 303 flights every day
66
Thai AirAsia 303 flights every day
67
Chengdu Airlines 299 flights every day
68
Korean Air 298 flights every day
69
Vistara 298 flights every day
70
Loong Air 293 flights every day
71
TAP Portugal 292 flights every day
72
SunExpress 286 flights every day
73
S7 Airlines 285 flights every day
74
Philippine Airlines 281 flights every day
75
Singapore Airlines 280 flights every day
76
Aer Lingus 278 flights every day
77
Volotea 278 flights every day
78
Shanghai Airlines 277 flights every day
79
Wizz Air Malta 270 flights every day
80
Saudia 269 flights every day
81
Virgin Australia 268 flights every day
82
Beijing Capital Airlines 266 flights every day
83
flydubai 262 flights every day
84
Norwegian Air Shuttle 256 flights every day
85
Aegean Airlines 252 flights every day
86
Copa Airlines 247 flights every day
87
Transavia France 245 flights every day
88
Southern Airways Express 232 flights every day
89
Cebu Pacific Air 229 flights every day
90
Airlink (South Africa) 224 flights every day
91
SW Italia 223 flights every day
92
China United Airlines 218 flights every day
93
Cathay Pacific 218 flights every day
94
Finnair 215 flights every day
95
Jeju Air 214 flights every day
96
Cape Air 214 flights every day
97
Hawaiian Airlines 206 flights every day
98
Flynas 206 flights every day
99
Binter Canarias 204 flights every day
100
Aerolineas Argentinas 202 flights every day