List of largest airlines in Europe

This is a list of largest airlines in Europe:

By Fleet Size

1 Air France-KLM Group Skyteam: 620 [1]

2 Lufthansa Group Star Alliance : 534 [2]

3 British Airways Oneworld: 233 [3] This figure does not include aircraft of BA's subsidiaries and Iberia.

Total scheduled passengers carried in 2006 - 2009 Jan-Jun (millions)

Largest airlines	Airline	Jan-Jun 2009	2008	2007	2006	Notes	Alliance
1	Ryanair	36.2	57.7	49	40.5	[1] a	n/a
2	Lufthansa	30.4	54.6	54.1	53.4	[2] 2a	Star Alliance
3	Air France	27.8	49.9	50.3	-	[3] 1a	SkyTeam
4	easyJet	25.8	44.6	38.2	33.0	[4] a	n/a
5	British Airways	18.7	33.6	33.4	33.1	[5] 4b	oneworld
6	Air Berlin	15.5	27.1	24.0	19.7	[6] 5a	n/a
7	Turkish Airlines	13.5	21.8	18.9	16.9	[7]	Star Alliance
8	KLM Royal Dutch Airlines	12.8	29.3	28.6	27.1	[8] 1a	Skyteam
9	SAS Group	12.5	25.3	25.4	-	[9] 3a	Star Alliance
10	Iberia	12.1	22.8	26.4	27.8	[10] a	oneworld
11	Alitalia	11.9	18.0	24.4	-	[11][12] a	SkyTeam
12	Swiss International Air Lines	7.6	13.3 2	12.0	10.5	[13] a	Star Alliance
Smaller Airlines	Airline	2008	2007	2006	2005	Notes	Alliance
13	Aeroflot	11.6	9.0	8.7	8.1	[14] 6a	SkyTeam
14	Austrian Airlines Group	10.7	10.8	10.8	10.1	[15] 7a	Star Alliance
15	Aer Lingus	10.4	9.3	8.6	8.0	[16]	n/a
16	bmi	10.0	10.6	10.5	10.5	[17]	Star Alliance
17	Norwegian	9.1	6.9	5.1	3.3	[18] a	n/a
18	Air Europa			9		[19]	SkyTeam
19	TAP Portugal	8.74	7.9	7.03		[20][21] a	Star Alliance
20	Finnair Group	8.3	8.7	8.8	8.5	[22] a	oneworld
21	Air One		7.5	6.3		[23]	SkyTeam
22	flybe		7.0	5.2		[24] b	n/a
23	Aegean Airlines	6.0	5.2	4.45	4	[25] a	n/a
24	Vueling Airlines	5.9a	6.2	9	4	[26] c	n/a
25	Olympic Airlines		5.9	5.6		[27] a	n/a
26	S7	5.89	5.7	4.9	4.2	[28][29] a	n/a
27	Brussels Airlines	5.86	5.85	5.74		[30] 10a	Star Alliance
28	Wizz Air	5.8	4.2	3		[31][32]	n/a
29	Virgin Atlantic Airways	5.7	5.1	4.6	4.4	[33] a	n/a
30	Czech Airlines	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.2	[34][35] a	SkyTeam
31	Transavia	5.5	5.4	5.1	4.8	[36] b	SkyTeam
32	Transaero	4.8	3.24	2.1		[37]	n/a
33	Meridiana			4.6	4.0	[38]	n/a
34	LOT		4.28	3.7	3.58	[39]	Star Alliance
35	Rossiya - Russian Airlines	3.5	3.24	2.37		[40]	n/a
36	Jet2.com	3.45	3.86	2.83	1.90	[41]	n/a
37	UTAir	3.23	2.92	2.42	1.90	[42]	n/a
38	Malev		3.13	3.12	2.97	[43]	oneworld
39	AiRUnion KrasAir			2.9		[44]	n/a
40	Aerosvit Airlines		2.05	1.56		[45] a	n/a
41	TAROM	1.98	1.7	1.3		[46]	n/a
42	Croatia Airlines		1.71	1.5		[47]	Star Alliance
43	Cyprus Airways		1.70	1.61	1.59	[48] b	n/a
44	Icelandair	1.5	1.6	1.5		[49]	n/a
45	Ural Airlines	1.45	1.22	1.0	0.91	[50]	n/a
46	Jat Airways		1.3	1.2		[51]b	n/a
47	Adria Airways	1.30	1.14	1.02	0.94	[52]	Star Alliance
48	Aer Arann		1.15	1.1		[53]	n/a

TUI Group airlines flew 25.0 million passengers, but many of them were charter passengers. [54] ¹¹

General Notes

• Note a: Figures valid for calendar year e.g. 1/2006 - 12/2006
• Note b: Figures valid for financial year e.g. 4/2006 - 3/2007
• Note c: Figures valid for financial year e.g. 7/2006 - 6/2007

Notes

• Note 1: Includes Air France, KLM, CityJet, VLM Airlines and Transavia.
• Note 2: Includes Lufthansa, Lufthansa CityLine, Air Dolomiti, partially Eurowings Luftverkehrs AG (Eurowings, but not Germanwings) and Swiss International Air Lines - since 7/2007.
• Note 3: Includes Scandinavian Airlines, Spanair, Blue1 and Widerøe.
• Note 4: Includes British Airways and BA CityFlyer.
• Note 5: Includes Air Berlin, Dba, LTU - since 1/2007 and Belair - since 11/2007.
• Note 6: Includes Aeroflot, Donavia and Nordavia.
• Note 7: Includes Austrian Airlines, Lauda Air and Tyrolean Airways.
• Note 9: Only until the end of 2008.
• Note 10: Merger of SN Brussels Airlines and Virgin Express - from 25 March 2006.
• Note 11: Includes TUIfly, Thomsonfly, TUIfly Nordic, Corsairfly, Jetairfly and Arkefly.

References

See also

• List of airlines of Europe
• List of largest airlines in Africa
• List of largest airlines in Asia
• List of largest airlines in North America
• List of largest airlines in Oceania
• List of largest airlines in South America