List of largest airlines in Europe

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This is a list of largest airlines in Europe:

Contents 1 By Fleet Size 2 Total scheduled passengers carried in 2005 - 2008 (millions) 3 References 4 See also

[edit] 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.

[edit] Total scheduled passengers carried in 2005 - 2008 (millions)

Rank (2007 or most recent)	Airline	2008	2007	2006	2005	Notes	Alliance
1	Air France-KLM		74.8	56.5	53.8	[1] 1a	SkyTeam
2	Lufthansa	70.54	62.9	53.4	51.3	[2] 2a	Star Alliance
3	Ryanair	57.7	49	40.5	33.4	[3] a	n/a
4	easyJet	44.6	37.2	33.0	29.6	[4] a	n/a
5	SAS Group	37.9	41.1	39.1	36.3	[5] 3a	Star Alliance
6	British Airways	33.161	33.06	33.1	32.4	[6] 4b	oneworld
7	Air Berlin	28.56	27.9	19.7	17.5	[7] 5a	n/a
8	Iberia		26.9	27.8	27.7	[8] a	oneworld
9	Alitalia		26.6	24.2	23.9	[9][10] a	SkyTeam
10	Turkish Airlines	22.5	19.7	16.9	14.1	[11]	Star Alliance
11	Swiss International Air Lines	13.47	12.2 2	10.5	9.6	[12] a	Star Alliance
12	Aeroflot	11.6	9.0	8.7	8.1	[13] 6a	SkyTeam
13	Austrian Airlines Group	10.7	10.8	10.8	10.1	[14] 7a	Star Alliance
14	bmi		10.6	10.5	10.5	[15]	Star Alliance
15	Aer Lingus	10.4	9.3	8.6	8.0	[16]	n/a
16	Norwegian	9.1	6.9	5.1	3.3	[17] a	n/a
17	Air Europa			9		[18]	Sky Team
18	TAP Portugal	8.74	7.9	7.03		[19][20] a	Star Alliance
19	Finnair Group	8.3	8.7	8.8	8.5	[21] 8a	oneworld
20	Air One		7.5	6.3		[22]	Skyteam
21	flybe		7.0	5.2		[23] b	n/a
22	Aegean Airlines	6.0	5.2	4.45	4	[24] a	n/a
23	Vueling Airlines	5.9a	6.2	9	4	[25] c	n/a
24	Olympic Airlines		5.9	5.6		[26] a	n/a
25	S7	5.89	5.7	4.9	4.2	[27][28] a	n/a
26	Brussels Airlines	5.86	5.85	5.74		[29] 10a	Star Alliance
27	Wizz Air	5.8	4.2	3		[30][31]	n/a
28	Virgin Atlantic Airways	5.7	5.1	4.6	4.4	[32] a	n/a
29	Czech Airlines	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.2	[33][34] a	SkyTeam
30	Transavia		5.4	5.1	4.8	[35] b	n/a
31	Transaero	4.8	3.24	2.1		[36]	n/a
32	Meridiana			4.6	4.0	[37]	n/a
33	LOT		4.28	3.7	3.58	[38]	Star Alliance
34	SkyEurope	3.63	3.58	2.75	1.85	[39] a	MyAir
35	Rossiya - Russian Airlines	3.5	3.24	3		[40]	n/a
36	UTAir	3.23	2.92	2.42	1.90	[41]	n/a
37	Malev		3.13	3.12	2.97	[42]	oneworld
38	AiRUnion KrasAir			2.9		[43]	n/a
39	Aerosvit Airlines		2.05	1.56		[44] a	n/a
40	TAROM	1.98	1.7	1.3		[45]	n/a
41	Croatia Airlines		1.71	1.5		[46]	Star Alliance
42	Cyprus Airways		1.70	1.61	1.59	[47] b	n/a
43	MyAir	1.52	1.44			[48]	SkyEurope
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, Aeroflot-Don and Aeroflot-Nord.
• Note 7: Includes Austrian Airlines, Lauda Air and Tyrolean Airways.
• Note 8: Includes Finnair, flyNordic and Aero Airlines.
• 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.

[edit] References

[edit] 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