Top 100 biggest airlines

- by number of daily departures

UPDATED 2025-10-14

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 5247 flights every day
2
Southwest Airlines 3983 flights every day
3
United Airlines 3879 flights every day
4
Delta Air Lines 3557 flights every day
5
China Eastern Airlines 2222 flights every day
6
IndiGo 2118 flights every day
7
China Southern Airlines 2103 flights every day
8
Ryanair 1510 flights every day
9
Air China 1499 flights every day
10
ANA 1132 flights every day
11
Turkish Airlines 865 flights every day
12
LATAM Airlines 832 flights every day
13
Air Canada 825 flights every day
14
easyJet 823 flights every day
15
JAL 805 flights every day
16
Alaska Airlines 779 flights every day
17
Shenzhen Airlines 770 flights every day
18
Hainan Airlines 693 flights every day
19
Lufthansa 674 flights every day
20
Air India 673 flights every day
21
Azul 671 flights every day
22
Qantas 640 flights every day
23
Aeroflot 636 flights every day
24
AVIANCA 608 flights every day
25
Xiamen Airlines 605 flights every day
26
Shandong Airlines 573 flights every day
27
JetBlue Airways 525 flights every day
28
Spring Airlines 525 flights every day
29
KLM 519 flights every day
30
Spirit Airlines 504 flights every day
31
AirAsia 496 flights every day
32
Emirates 478 flights every day
33
Sichuan Airlines 478 flights every day
34
Air France 472 flights every day
35
Frontier Airlines 467 flights every day
36
Air India Express 463 flights every day
37
Iberia 440 flights every day
38
VivaAerobus 437 flights every day
39
British Airways 430 flights every day
40
Gestair 429 flights every day
41
Pegasus 419 flights every day
42
Volaris 419 flights every day
43
Qatar Airways 417 flights every day
44
Ethiopian Airlines 414 flights every day
45
Saudia 406 flights every day
46
Scandinavian Airlines 383 flights every day
47
Thai AirAsia 379 flights every day
48
Vueling 377 flights every day
49
VietJet Air 372 flights every day
50
Tianjin Airlines 369 flights every day
51
Air New Zealand 355 flights every day
52
Wizz Air Malta 341 flights every day
53
Gol 339 flights every day
54
Jetstar 335 flights every day
55
Aeromexico 328 flights every day
56
Korean Air 327 flights every day
57
Juneyao Airlines 320 flights every day
58
Malaysia Airlines 316 flights every day
59
Vietnam Airlines 315 flights every day
60
Singapore Airlines 314 flights every day
61
Cebu Pacific Air 314 flights every day
62
flydubai 312 flights every day
63
Wizz Air 310 flights every day
64
Copa Airlines 308 flights every day
65
Beijing Capital Airlines 304 flights every day
66
WestJet 303 flights every day
67
Shanghai Airlines 297 flights every day
68
Chengdu Airlines 296 flights every day
69
Cathay Pacific 291 flights every day
70
Flynas 290 flights every day
71
Austrian Airlines 280 flights every day
72
Philippine Airlines 274 flights every day
73
Aer Lingus 270 flights every day
74
Lion Air 269 flights every day
75
Loong Air 260 flights every day
76
Wideroe 258 flights every day
77
Aegean Airlines 250 flights every day
78
Virgin Australia 249 flights every day
79
Batik Air 244 flights every day
80
Cape Air 237 flights every day
81
S7 Airlines 236 flights every day
82
Pobeda 232 flights every day
83
SWISS 232 flights every day
84
Etihad Airways 228 flights every day
85
Eurowings 225 flights every day
86
Airlink 222 flights every day
87
SunExpress 218 flights every day
88
Super Air Jet 218 flights every day
89
Lucky Air 217 flights every day
90
Porter Airlines 214 flights every day
91
Thai Airways International 214 flights every day
92
Tibet Airlines 212 flights every day
93
AJet 211 flights every day
94
Garuda Indonesia 209 flights every day
95
Jet2 205 flights every day
96
Binter Canarias 203 flights every day
97
China United Airlines 202 flights every day
98
Allegiant Air 202 flights every day
99
Jeju Air 202 flights every day
100
Hawaiian Airlines 200 flights every day