List of largest airlines in Europe

1. The following is a list of the largest airlines in Europe by total scheduled and chartered passengers, in millions. The list includes companies headquartered in the Asian portions of Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.

Rank	Country	Airline/holding	'20	'19	'18	'17	'16	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	'09	'08	'07	'06	Fleet	Destinations	Sources	Alliance	Association
1	Ireland  Malta  Poland  United Kingdom	Ryanair^1	31.9 (Jul)	152.4	139.2	128.77	116.8	101.4	86.4	81.4	79.6	76.4	72.7	65.3	57.7	49.0	40.5	430	186			A4E
2	Germany  Austria  Belgium   Switzerland	Lufthansa Group^2	32.16 (Sep)	145.2	142.3	130.04	117.4	115.2	112.5	110.4	108.9	112.0	95.1	81.2	76.4	68.8	59.1	728[1]	321		Star Alliance	A4E IATA
3	United Kingdom  France  Ireland  Spain	International Airlines Group^3	26.97 (Sep)	118.3	112.92	104.83	100.7	94.9	77.3	67.2	54.6	51.7	50.6	53.3	59.8	61.7	63.2	520	248		oneworld	A4E
4	France  Netherlands	Air France-KLM^4	28.12 (Sep)	104.2	101.45	98.72	93.4	89.8	87.4	78.4	77.5	75.8	70.8	71.4	73.8	74.8	73.5	574	231		SkyTeam	A4E IATA
5	United Kingdom  Austria   Switzerland	Easyjet^5	13.23 (Sep)	103.3	88.5	81.63	74.5	69.9	65.3	61.4	59.2	55.5	49.7	46.1	44.6	38.2	33.0	300	136			A4E
6	Turkey	Turkish Airlines^6	27.95	74.28	75.16	68.61	62.8	61.2	54.8	48.3	39.0	32.6	29.1	25.1	22.6	19.6	16.9	346	315		Star Alliance	AIRE IATA
7	Russia	Aeroflot Group^7	30.16	60.7	55.7	50.13	43.4	39.4	34.7	31.4	27.5	16.4	14.1	11.1	11.6	10.2	8.7	371	189		SkyTeam	IATA
8	Hungary  United Kingdom	Wizz Air^8	16.67	39.8	33.81	28.27	22.78	19.2	15.8	13.5	12.0	11.2	9.6	7.8	5.8	4.2	3.0	120	144
9	Norway  Sweden  Ireland	Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA^9	6.87	36.20	37.34	33.15	29.3	25.8	24.0	20.7	17.7	15.7	13.0	10.8	9.1	6.9	5.1	152	130			A4E
10	Turkey	Pegasus Airlines	2.57 (Jan)	29.9	29.97	27.82	24.14	22.3	19.7	16.8	13.6	11.3	8.6	5.9	4.4	-	3.1	83	109			IATA
11	Sweden  Norway  Denmark  Ireland	SAS Group^10	8.08 (Oct)	29.8	30.0	28.37	29.4	27.1	27.3	25.4	25.4	24.7	23.1	22.8	27.0	27.2	26.9	156	157		Star Alliance
12	Italy	Alitalia^11		21.29	21.49	21.7	22.6	23.0	23.2	24.0	24.3	25.0	23.4	22.0	18.0	24.4	24.1	103	123		SkyTeam	IATA
13	Russia	S7 Airlines	12.35	17.9	15.96	14.25	13.15	10.6	10.1	9.3	8.3	5.1	4.8	5.6	5.9	5.7	4.9	100	121		oneworld	IATA
14	Portugal	TAP Air Portugal^12	1.23 (Jan)	17.05	15.89	14.27	11.72	11.3	11.4	10.7	10.2	9.8	9.1	8.4	8.7	7.9	6.9	110	88		Star Alliance	A4E IATA
15	Greece  Cyprus	Aegean Airlines^13	4.4 (Sep)	14.99	13.97	13.22	12.46	11.6	10.2	8.8	8.9	9.9	10.1	10.2	11.3	11.1	10.1	59	103		Star Alliance	A4E IATA
16	Finland	Finnair	1.12 (Jan)	14.65	13.28	11.90	10.87	10.2	9.6	9.3	8.8	8.0	7.1	7.4	8.3	8.7	8.8	73	103		oneworld	A4E IATA
17	United Kingdom	Jet2.com	2.80 (Nov)	14.39	12.09	9.64	6.67	5.85	6.0	5.5	4.8	4.2	3.3	3.1	3.4	3.9	2.8	90	50			A4E
18	United Kingdom	TUI Airways^14	1.99 (Nov)	11.82						33.7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	133	-		n/a	A4E
19	Spain	Air Europa			11.84	10.6	10.6	10.2	8.1	9.0	8.1	8.7	8.9	9.0	9.7	9.9	8.1	59	42		SkyTeam	IATA
20	Poland  Hungary	LOT Polish Airlines^15	2.05 (Jun)	11.79	10.61	6.89	5.58	6.1	5.9	6.3	5.8	5.5	5.0	4.0	4.3	3.7	-	91	120		Star Alliance	AIRE ERA IATA
21	Russia	Ural Airlines	5.60	9.62	9.0	8.0	6.47	5.4	5.1	4.4	3.5	2.5	1.8	1.5	1.5	1.2	1.0	47	66		n/a	IATA
22	Czech Republic	SmartWings Group ^16			8.8	8.17	7.3		6.57	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	57	?		n/a
23	Russia	UTair Aviation	4.34 (Nov)	8.09	7.65	7.3	6.65	8.8	11.2	10.4	7.8	5.8	5.2	3.9	3.2	2.9	2.4	66	117		-	IATA
24	Ukraine	Ukraine International Airlines			8.08	6.93	6.0	4.8	3.8	4.5	2.8	1.9	1.7	0.8	1.7	0.3	-	42	80		-	AIRE IATA
25	Spain	Volotea			6.57	4.82	4.3			1.8	1.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	60			A4E
26	Russia	Azur Air	1.93	5.79	4.24	3.75	2.34	2.35	0.21	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	27
27	Russia	Nordwind Airlines	2.94	5.54	4.92	3.55	1.79	2.67	4.47	3.66	2.17	1.72	1.19	-	-	-	-	26	97		n/a	IATA
28	Romania	Blue Air			5.20	5.06	3.59	2.02	1.36	1.9	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.2	29	104		n/a	IATA
29	Latvia	AirBaltic		5.05	4.14	3.52	2.89	2.6	2.8	2.9	3.1	3.4	3.2	2.8	-	2.0	1.4	32	60		n/a	A4E
30	Kazakhstan	Air Astana			4.32	4.19	3.75	3.86	3.77	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	34	69		-
31	Iceland	Icelandair Group ^17			4.14	4.05	3.67	3.0	2.9	2.6	2.4	1.8	1.7	1.8	1.5	1.6	1.5	28	36		n/a	A4E
32	Belarus	Belavia		4.00	3.39	3.0	2.49		-	1.6	1.3	1.0	-	0.7	-	-	-	29	48		n/a	IATA
33	Russia	Red Wings Airlines	1.54	3.07	2.62	1.62	0.92	1.04	0.92	0.35	0.82	0.78	0.88	-	-	-	-	18	20		n/a
34	United Kingdom	Virgin Atlantic	1.12 (Nov)	5.60	5.4	5.20	5.20	5.94	6.2	5.5	5.4	5.3	5.3	5.7	5.7	5.1	4.6	40	37		-	IATA
35	Romania	TAROM			2.80	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.2	2.1	2.2	2.2	2.2	1.7	2.0	1.9	1.5	25	50		SkyTeam	IATA
36	Serbia	Air Serbia		2.81	2.48	2.61	2.62	2.55	2.3	-	1.3	1.2	1.0	1.0	1.3	1.3	1.2	22	41		Etihad Airways Partners	IATA
37	Russia	Royal Flight	0.92	2.26	1.73	1.5	0.99	0.87	0.62	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	13		n/a
38	Croatia	Croatia Airlines		2.18	2.17	2.125	1.94	1.8	1.8	1.8	2.0	1.9	1.6	1.8	1.7	1.5	-	13	40		Star Alliance	AIRE IATA
39	Russia	Pegas Fly	0.76	2.16	2.02	1.38	0.99	1.08	1.24	0.28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	29		n/a
40	Luxembourg	Luxair			2.13	1.93	1.84	1.81	1.68	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	-	17	59		n/a	A4E IATA
41	Russia	Smartavia	1.64	2.03	1.19	1.09	0.96	0.728	0.763	0.765	0.814	1.47	1.4	-	-	-	-	10	30		n/a	IATA
42	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan Airlines			1.89	2.29			-	-	-	1.4	1.0	-	-	-	-	28	22		n/a	IATA
43	Russia	Yamal Airlines	0.70	1.75	1.97	1.79	1.45	1.43	1.45	1.3	0.91	0.57	0.5	-	-	-	-	36	38		n/a
44	Malta	Air Malta			1.7	1.5			-	-	1.7	1.8	-	-	-	-	-	8	37		n/a	IATA
45	Ukraine	SkyUp		1.71	0.44	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	49
46	Bulgaria	Bulgaria Air		1.40	1.30	1.28	1.25	1.28	1.40	-	-	-	-	-	1.20	1.12	-	10	26		n/a	IATA
47	Ukraine	Windrose		1.44	1.30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	19
48	Russia	NordStar	0.88	1.28	1.42	1.4	1.29	1.13	1.1	1.24	1.16	0.77	0.54	-	-	-	-	15	50		n/a
49	Russia	Azimuth	1.22	1.25	0.67	0.07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	31
50	Greece	Sky Express		1.20	1.00	0.50	0.17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	32		n/a
51	Russia	I-Fly			1.13	0.75	0.4	0.61	0.97	1.05	0.63	0.41	0.38	-	-	-	-	10	30		n/a
52	Poland	Enter Air			1.12	1.17	1.11	1.17	-	-	-	-	-	1.2	-	-	-	19	74	n/a	n/a
53	Greece	Ellinair			1.04	0.79	0.57	0.31	0.14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	30

Notes

• ^1 Includes Lauda Europe, Ryanair UK, Malta Air and Buzz.
• ^2 Includes Lufthansa (inc. Lufthansa Regional (inc. Lufthansa CityLine and Air Dolomiti)), Eurowings, Swiss International Air Lines (inc. Edelweiss Air), Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines.
• ^3 Includes British Airways (inc. BA CityFlyer), Iberia (inc. Air Nostrum and Iberia Express), Vueling Airlines, Level and Aer Lingus (inc. Aer Lingus Regional).
• ^4 Includes Air France (inc. Air France Hop and Transavia France) and KLM (inc. KLM cityhopper, and Transavia).
• ^5 Includes EasyJet UK, EasyJet Switzerland, and EasyJet Europe.
• ^6 Includes Anadolu Jet.
• ^7 Includes Rossiya Airlines, Pobeda and Aurora.
• ^8 Includes Wizz Air UK.
• ^9 Includes Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, Norwegian Air International, Norwegian Air Norway and Norwegian Air Sweden.
• ^10 Includes Scandinavian Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines Ireland.
• ^11 Includes Alitalia CityLiner.
• ^12 Includes TAP Express.
• ^13 Includes Olympic Air.
• ^14 Includes Arkefly (TUI fly Netherlands), Jetairfly (TUI fly Belgium), TUIfly (TUI fly Deutschlandand), TUI fly Nordic, Thomson Airways and Corsair International.
• ^15 Includes LOT Charters.
• ^16 Includes Czech Airlines, SmartWings, Smartwings Hungary, Smartwings Poland, Smartwings Slovakia.
• ^17 Includes Icelandair and Air Iceland Connect.

See also

• List of airlines of Europe
• World's largest airlines

References

1. https://investor-relations.lufthansagroup.com/fileadmin/downloads/en/financial-reports/traffic-figures/lufthansa/2018/LH-Investor-Info-2018-11-e.pdf

Further reading

• "Europe's Top 20 airline groups by passengers 2017; Lufthansa wrests top spot from Ryanair". CAPA Centre for Aviation. 21 January 2018.