Postoji nekoliko načina za definiranje navećih svjetskih zrakoplovnih tvrtki, te se prema tome nekoliko različitih tvrtki može smatrati najvećima u svijetu. American Airlines se trenutno smatra najvećim prijevoznikom za prijevoz putnika, kako po broju prevezenih putnika, tako i po veličini flote, dok je United Airlines najveći po broju destinacija. FedEx Express je najveći cargo prijevoznik po količini tereta i po floti zrakoplova.
Po prihodima

Prema magazinu Forbes (2000 world's biggest public companies) :[1]
Pozicija | Tvrtka | Država | Prihod (mlrd $) | Profit (mlrd $) | Imovina (mlrd $) | Tržišna kapital. (mlrd $) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | American Airlines[1] | ![]() |
40,4 | 1,9 | 14,3 | 35,8 |
2 | Lufthansa | ![]() |
39,9 | 0,4 | 40,1 | 12,3 |
3 | United Airlines | ![]() |
38,3 | 0,6 | 36,8 | 23,6 |
4 | Delta Air Lines | ![]() |
37,7 | 2,7 | 59,4 | 39,9 |
5 | Air France-KLM | ![]() ![]() |
34 | -2,4 | 35 | 4,7 |
6 | International Airlines Group (British Airways i Iberia) |
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24,7 | 0,2 | 28,6 | 14,3 |
7 | Southwest Airlines | ![]() |
17,7 | 0,8 | 19,3 | 16,8 |
8 | All Nippon Airways | ![]() |
16 | 0,2 | 20,5 | 7,6 |
9 | China Southern Airlines | ![]() |
15,9 | 0,3 | 27,3 | 3,7 |
10 | Qantas Airways | ![]() |
14,9 | -0,3 | 17,9 | 2,2 |
- Bilješke
- ^ Podaci su za spojeni American Airlines/US Airways.
Po broju prevezenih putnika (mil.)

Pozicija | Tvrtka | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | Mjera | Izvori |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
193,7 | 107,8 | 107,2 | 105,2 | 104,5 | Ukrcanih putnika | |
2 | ![]() |
164,6 | 164,6 | 163,8 | 162,6 | 161,1 | Ukrcanih putnika | |
3 | ![]() |
139,2 | 140,4 | 141,8 | 145,6 | 144,3 | Ukrcanih putnika | |
4 | ![]() |
133,2 | 134,0 | 127,6 | 106,2 | 101,3 | Ukrcanih putnika | |
5 | ![]() |
81.4 | 79,3 | 75,8 | 72,1 | 66,5 | Planiranih putnika | |
6 | ![]() |
79,1 | 73,1 | 68,7 | 64,9 | 44,0 | Prevezenih putnika | |
7 | ![]() |
76,3 | 74,7 | 65,5 | 58,9 | 55,6 | Broj putnika | |
8 | ![]() |
64,5 | 61,8 | 58,7 | 57,7 | 49,4 | ||
9 | ![]() |
61.3 | 59,2 | 55,5 | 49,7 | 46,1 | Broj prodanih sjedala | |
10 | ![]() |
51,0 | 49,7 | 48,5 | 46,2 | 39,8 | Prevezenih putnika |
- Bilješke
- Na osnovi podataka predstavljenih od strane samih tvrtki. Svaka tvrtka ima svoju vlastitu mjeru za broj prevezenih putnika.
- ^ Podaci od 2013. uključuju i podatke za pripojeni US Airways.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za Delta Connection.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za United Express.
- ^ Podaci od 2011. uključuju i podatke za pripojeni AirTran Airways.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za Lufthansa Regional i Germanwings.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za EasyJet Switzerland.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za Shanghai Airlines i China United Airlines.
Po ukupnom broju putničkih kilometara (u mlrd.)


Ovaj broj se dobije množenjem svih putnika u zrakoplovu s brojem prijeđenih kilomeara za svaki let.
Pozicija | Tvrtka | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | Izvori |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
346,878 | 330,323 | 219,492 | 216,132 | 209,321 | |
2 | ![]() |
330,184 | 330,696 | 334,989 | 338,833 | 327,479 | |
3 | ![]() |
313,803 | 310,562 | 310,228 | 310,875 | 304,074 | |
4 | ![]() |
215,353 | 188,606 | 160,549 | 146,205 | 126,331 | |
5 | ![]() |
167,932 | 165,561 | 157,044 | 125,604 | 119,826 | |
6 | ![]() |
153,334 | 149,780 | 141,055 | 129,668 | 122,991 | |
7 | ![]() |
148,417 | 135,535 | 122,344 | 111,328 | 93,002 | |
8 | ![]() |
141,967 | 129,773 | 123,489 | 105,695 | 75,474 | |
9 | ![]() |
139,824 | 137,606 | 135,129 | 127,763 | 128,326 | |
10 | ![]() |
131,333 | 126,436 | 117,348 | 106,082 | 114,346 |
- Bilješke
- Na osnovi podataka predstavljenih od strane samih tvrtki.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za United Express.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za Delta Connection.
- ^ Podaci su za spojeni American Airlines/US Airways
- ^ Podaci su za spojeni Southwest Airlines/AirTran Airways.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za Lufthansa Regional i Germanwings.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za HOP! i Transavia France.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za BA CityFlyer i OpenSkies.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za Xiamen Airlines, Shantou Airlines, Zhuhai Airlines, Guizhou Airlines i Chongqing Airlines.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za Shenzhen Airlines (uključujući Kunming Airlines), Air Macau i Dalian Airlines.
Po broju prijeđenih kilometara za svaku tonu tereta (u mlrd.)

Pozicija | Tvrtka | 2013 |
---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
16,127 |
2 | ![]() |
10,584 |
3 | ![]() |
10,459 |
4 | ![]() |
8,241 |
5 | ![]() |
7,666 |
6 | ![]() |
7,218 |
7 | ![]() |
6,240 |
8 | ![]() |
5,225 |
9 | ![]() |
4,972 |
10 | ![]() |
4,813 |
- Bilješke
- Podaci od Međunarodne udruge za zračni prijevoz.[23]
Po veličini flote
Tvrtke za prijevoz putnika

Pozicija | Tvrtka | Broj zrakoplova | Izvori |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
971 | |
2 | ![]() |
773 | |
3 | ![]() |
702 | |
4 | ![]() |
627 | |
5 | ![]() |
578 | |
6 | ![]() |
552 | |
7 | ![]() |
492 | |
8 | ![]() |
433 | |
9 | ![]() |
363 | |
10 | ![]() |
350 |
- Bilješke
- Uključujući samo putničke zrakoplove glavnih tvrtki i njihovih regionalnih prijevoznika, bez ostalih podružnica. Deteljnije pogledati ispod:
- ^ Podaci su za American Airlines Group (American Airlines i US Airways), bez podružnica.
- ^ Podaci su za samo za United (glavnu tvrtku), bez podružnica.
- ^ Podaci su za Delta Air Lines (glavnu vrtku), bez podružnica.
- ^ Podaci uključuju AirTran Airways.
- ^ Podaci uključuju Lufthansa Regional i Germanwings.
- ^ Podaci uključuju Air Canada Express i Air Canada Rouge.
- ^ Podaci uključuju HOP! i Transavia France.
- ^ Podaci uključuju Shanghai Airlines i China United Airlines.
- ^ Podaci uključuju Xiamen Airlines, Shantou Airlines, Chongqing Airlines, Zhuhai Airlines i Guizhou Airlines.
- ^ Podaci uključuju Shenzhen Airlines, Shandong Airlines, Kunming Airlines, Tibet Airlines, Dalian Airlines i Air Macau.
Tvrtke za cargo prijevoz

Pozicija | Tvrtka | Broj zrakoplova | Izvori |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
656 | |
2 | ![]() |
250 | |
3 | ![]() |
237 | |
4 | ![]() |
37 | |
5 | ![]() |
27 | |
6 | ![]() |
22 | |
7 | ![]() |
22 | |
8 | ![]() |
21 | |
9 | ![]() |
20 | |
10 | ![]() |
20 |
Po broju destinacija

Pozicija | Tvrtka | Broj destinacija | Izvori |
---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
369 | |
2 | ![]() |
340 | |
3 | ![]() |
333 | |
4 | ![]() |
262 | |
5 | ![]() |
218 | |
6 | ![]() |
211 | |
7 | ![]() |
197 | |
8 | ![]() |
194 | |
9 | ![]() |
193 | |
10 | ![]() |
181 |
- Bilješke
- Uključujući samo tvrtke za prijevoz putnika.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za United Express.
- ^ Ukupni podaci za American Airlines Group.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za Delta Connection.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za Shanghai Airlines i China United Airlines.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za Lufthansa Regional i Germanwings.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za HOP! i Transavia France.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za BA CityFlyer i OpenSkies.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za Air Canada Express i Air Canada Rouge.
- ^ Uključujući podatke za AnadoluJet.
Izvori
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