There are several ways of defining the world's largest airline, and as such, several different airlines can claim the title at the same time. For example, American Airlines has carried more scheduled passengers annually than any other airline since its merger with US Airways in 2013. United Airlines, however, flies more passenger-kilometers annually than American and serves more destinations than Delta Air Lines. FedEx Express is the largest cargo airline, both in freight tonne-kilometers flown (a measure of not just how many packages are delivered, but how much weight is delivered and over what distance), and in fleet size.
§By revenue
From Forbes 2000 world's biggest public companies (except Emirates Airlines, which isn't a public company, taken from the 2013//14 annual report and converted at the 31 March 2014 exchange rate) :
- ^1 Figures are for the merged American Airlines/US Airways.
§By passengers carried (millions)
- Based on individual companies' published figures. Each company has its own metric for "passengers carried".
- ^1 Includes figures for American Eagle. Figures on and after 2013 are for the merged American/US Airways.
- ^2 Includes figures for Delta Connection.
- ^3 Includes figures for United Express. Figures on and after 2010 are for the merged United/Continental.
- ^4 Figures on and after 2011 include AirTran Airways.
- ^5 Includes figures for Shanghai Airlines and China United Airlines.
- ^6 Includes figures for Lufthansa Regional and Germanwings.
- ^7 Includes figures for LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines.
- ^8 Includes figures for EasyJet Switzerland.
§By passenger-kilometres flown (millions)
- Based on individual companies' published figures.
- ^1 Includes figures for American Eagle. Figures on and after 2013 are for the merged American/US Airways.
- ^2 Includes figures for United Express.
- ^3 Includes figures for Delta Connection.
- ^4 Figures on and after 2011 include AirTran Airways.
- ^5 Includes figures for Lufthansa Regional and Germanwings.
- ^6 Includes figures for Xiamen Airlines, Shantou Airlines, Zhuhai Airlines, Guizhou Airlines and Chongqing Airlines.
- ^7 Includes figures for Shenzhen Airlines (including Kunming Airlines), Air Macau and Dalian Airlines.
- ^8 Includes figures for HOP! and Transavia France.
- ^9 Includes figures for BA CityFlyer and OpenSkies.
§By freight tonne-kilometres flown (millions)
- Based on figures published by the International Air Transport Association.
§By fleet size
§Passenger airlines
- Includes passenger aircraft only - Includes figures for main airlines' regional carrier(s), excludes other subsidiaries. For further information see below:
- ^1 Represents figures for American Airlines Group mainline only (which includes US Airways mainline).
- ^2 Represents figures for United mainline only.
- ^3 Represents figures for Delta mainline only.
- ^4 Includes figures for Xiamen Airlines, Shantou Airlines, Chongqing Airlines, Zhuhai Airlines, and Guizhou Airlines.
- ^5 Includes figures for Shenzhen Airlines, Shandong Airlines, Kunming Airlines, Tibet Airlines, Dalian Airlines, and Air Macau.
- ^6 Includes figures for Shanghai Airlines and China United Airlines.
- ^7 Includes figures for Lufthansa Regional and Germanwings.
- ^8 Includes figures for Air Canada Express and Air Canada Rouge.
- ^9 Includes figures for HOP! and Transavia France.
§Cargo airlines
§By number of destinations
- Includes passenger airlines only.
- ^1 Includes figures for United Express.
- ^2 Represents figure for American Airlines Group.
- ^3 Includes figures for Delta Connection.
- ^4 Includes figures for AnadoluJet.
- ^5 Includes figures for Lufthansa Regional and Germanwings.
- ^6 Includes figures for Shanghai Airlines and China United Airlines.
- ^7 Includes figures for BA CityFlyer and OpenSkies.
- ^8 Includes figures for HOP! and Transavia France.
§See also
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