List of largest airlines in Europe

The following is a list of the largest airlines in Europe by total scheduled and chartered passengers, in millions. The list includes companies classified as European by the IATA. The order of the chart and its completion goes only up to the year 2023.

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Ireland
Malta
Poland
United Kingdom | Ryanair[a] | 197.2  | 181.74 | 160.4 | 72.4 | 52.01 | 152.4 | 139.2 | 128.77 | 116.8 | 101.4 | 86.4 | 81.40 | 79.61 | 76.4 | 72.7 | 65.3 | 57.7 | 49.0 | 40.5 | 430 | 186 | [1] |  | A4E
Germany
Austria
Belgium
Switzerland | Lufthansa Group[b] | 131.3  | 122.54 | 101.78 | 46.95 | 36.35 | 145.20 | 141.94 | 130.04 | 109.67 | 107.68 | 105.99 | 104.59 | 103.59 | 100.60 | 92.69 | 76.54 | 70.54 | 63.10 | 68.06  | 728 | 321 | [2] | Star Alliance | A4E
IATA
United Kingdom
Ireland
Spain | International Airlines Group[c] | 122.05  | 115.6 | 94.73 | 38.86 | 31.3 | 118.3 | 112.92 | 104.83 | 100.7 | 94.9 | 77.3 | 67.22 | 54.6 | 51.7 | 50.6 | 53.3 | 59.8 | 61.7 | 63.2  | 520 | 248 | [3] | oneworld | A4E
ERA
IATA
France
Netherlands | Air France-KLM[d] | 97.96  | 93.6 | 83.32 | 44.67 | 34.1 | 104.2 | 101.45 | 98.72 | 93.4 | 89.8 | 87.4 | 78.44 | 77.45 | 75.8 | 70.8 | 71.4 | 73.8 | 74.8 | 73.5  | 574 | 231 | [4]
[5] | SkyTeam | A4E
ERA
IATA
United Kingdom
Austria
Switzerland | EasyJet[e] | 86.51  | 82.8 | 69.7 | 20.4 | 16.09 | 103.3 | 88.5 | 81.63 | 74.5 | 69.9 | 65.3 | 61.33 | 59.21 | 55.5 | 49.7 | 46.1 | 44.6 | 38.2 | 33.0  | 300 | 136 | [6]
[7]
[8] |  | A4E
Turkey | Turkish Airlines[f] | 85.17 | 83.39 | 71.82 | 44.8 | 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  | 492 | 352 | [9]
[10] | Star Alliance | AIRE
IATA
Hungary
Poland
United Kingdom
Malta
United Arab Emirates | Wizz Air[g] | 62.69 | 60.31 | 45.66 | 21.71 | 16.67 | 39.80 | 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  | 168 | 144 | [11][12] |  |
Russia | Aeroflot Group[h] | 55.3  | 47.3 | 40.7 | 45.81 | 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  | 336 | 189 | [13]
[14]
[15] | ~~SkyTeam~~ | IATA
Turkey | Pegasus Airlines | 37.48 | 31.93 | 26.94 | 20.16 | 14.71 | 30.76 | 29.97 | 27.82 | 24.14 | 22.34 | 19.74 | 16.82 | 13.58 | 11.3 | 8.6 | 5.9 | 4.4 | - | 3.1  | 112 | 139 | [16]
[17]
[18]
[19] |  | IATA
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Ireland | SAS Group[i] | 25.2  | 21.1 | 17.87 | 10.19 | 8.81 | 29.8 | 30.0 | 28.37 | 29.4 | 27.1 | 27.3 | 25.56 | 25.32 | 24.7 | 23.1 | 22.8 | 27.0 | 27.2 | 26.9  | 134 | 124 | [20]
[21] | SkyTeam | ERA
IATA
Norway
Sweden | Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA[j] | 26.43 | 20.62 | 17.84 | 6.19 | 6.87 | 36.20 | 37.34 | 33.15 | 29.3 | 25.8 | 24.0 | 20.71 | 17.69 | 15.7 | 13.0 | 10.8 | 9.1 | 6.9 | 5.1  | 88 | 130 | [22]
[23]
[24] |  | A4E
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Sweden
United Kingdom | TUI Group[k] | 20.3  | 19 | 16.7 | 2.02 | 2.02 | 26.0 |  |  |  |  |  | 33.7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | \-  | 133 | - | [25][26][27] |  | A4E
IATA
United Kingdom | Jet2.com | 17.72 | 16.57 | 15.53 | 3.17 | 2.85 | 14.39 | 12.09 | 9.64 | 6.67 | 5.85 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 4.78 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 2.8  | 90 | 50 | [28][29][30] |  | A4E
Greece | Aegean Airlines[l] | 16.33  | 15.46 | 12.5 | 7.19 | 5.17 | 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/  | 67 | 153 | [31] [32] | Star Alliance | A4E
IATA
Portugal | TAP Air Portugal[m] | 16.1  | 15.9 | 13.76 | 5.83 | 4.66 | 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 | [33] | Star Alliance | A4E
ERA
IATA
Italy | ITA Airways | 18  | 15 | 10.1 | 1.32 | —  | 95 | 70 | [34] |  | IATA
Russia | S7 Airlines[n] | 12.9  | 15.9 | 16.03 | 17.83 | 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 | [35][36] | ~~oneworld~~ | IATA
Turkey | SunExpress | 15  | 12.6 | 10.7 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8.7 | 7.3 | 6.7 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 6.7 | 5.6 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 2.7  | 68 | 92 |  |  | IATA
Spain | Air Europa | 12  | 11.74 | 10.03 | 5.04 | 4.26 | 13.13 | 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 | 44 | [37][38][39][40] | SkyTeam | IATA
Finland | Finnair | 11.66 | 10.98 | 9.10 | 2.85 | 3.48 | 14.65 | 13.28 | 11.90 | 10.87 | 10.2 | 9.6 | 9.27 | 8.77 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 8.8  | 73 | 103 | [41][42] | oneworld | A4E
IATA
Spain | Volotea | 11.4 | 10.4 | 9.4 | 6.0 | 3.8 | 7.6 | 6.57 | 4.82 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 1.4 |  | —  | 23 | 60 | [43][44] |  | A4E
IATA
Poland | LOT Polish Airlines[o] | 10.7  | 10.03 | 9.3 | 4.2 | 3.59 | 11.79 | 10.61 | 8.5 | 6.89 | 5.58 | 6.1 | 5.9 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 3.71  | 91 | 120 | [45][46][47] | Star Alliance | AIRE
IATA
Russia | Ural Airlines | 9.52  | 9.41 | 8.49 | 9.20 | 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 | [48][49] |  | IATA
Kazakhstan | Air Astana[p] |  | 8.1 | 7.4 | 6.62 | 3.70 | 5.12 | 4.32 | 4.19 | 3.75 | 3.86 | 3.77 | 3.68 | 3.24 | 3.06 | 2.57 | 2.20 | 2.30 | 2.13 | 1.47  | 34 | 69 | [50] |  | IATA
Germany | Condor |  | 8 | 7.0 |  |  | 9.4 | Part of Thomas Cook Group Airlines |  |  |  |  | IATA
Latvia | AirBaltic | 8.3  | 7.03 | 3.44 | 1.6 | 1.36 | 5.05 | 4.14 | 3.52 | 2.89 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.95 | 3.08 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 2.8 | - | 2.0 | 1.4 | 50 | 60  | [51][52] |  | A4E
IATA
Czech Republic
Hungary
Poland
Slovakia | Smartwings[q] | 8.3  |  | 5.2 | 2.53 | 1.8 | 9.6 | 8.8 | 8.17 | 7.3 |  | 6.57 | - | - | - | - | Part of Icelandair Group | - | \-  | 57 | ? | [53][54][55][56] | SkyTeam | A4E
IATA
Russia | UTair Aviation | 6.40 | 6.06 | 5.54 | 7.12 | 4.90 | 8.09 | 7.65 | 7.3 | 6.65 | 8.8 | 11.2 | 10.4 | 7.8 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 3.9 | 3.23 | 2.93 | 2.42  | 66 | 117 | [57][58] |  | IATA
United Kingdom | Virgin Atlantic | 5.6  | 5.3 | 4.4 | 1.10 | 1.19 | 5.87 | 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 | [59][60] | SkyTeam | IATA
Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan Airways | 6  | 5.02 | 4.23 | 2.01 | 0.93 | 3.80 | 3.17 | 2.70 | 2.47 | 2.57 | 2.63 | 2.68 | 2.65 | 2.32 | 2.16 | 1.89 | 2.07 | 1.99 | 1.71  |  |  | [61][62] |  | IATA
Spain | Binter Canarias[r] |  | 5.00 | 4.43 | 3.14 | 2.27 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.65 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.63 | 2.9 | 3.02 | 3.0  |  |  | [63] |  | ERA
IATA
Greece | Sky Express | 5  | 4.3 | 3.30 | 1.72 |  | 1.20 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.17 | 0.07 | — | 17 | 43  | [64]
[65] |  | ERA
Iceland | Icelandair Group[s] | 4.67 | 4.29 | 3.66 | 1.46 | 0.89 | 4.41 | 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 | 47 | 36  | [66][67] |  | A4E
IATA
Serbia | Air Serbia | 4.44  | 4.19 | 2.75 | 1.59 | 0.87 | 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 | 34 | 81  | [68][69][70][71][72] |  | ERA
IATA
Russia | Nordwind Airlines |  | 4.3 |  | 5.93 | 2.94 | 5.54 | 4.92 | 3.54 | 1.79 | 2.67 | 4.46 | 3.59 | 2.19 | 1.72 | 1.19 | 0.56 | 0.02 | —  | 26 | 97 | [73] |  | IATA
Russia | Smartavia |  | 3.80 | 3.24 | 3.62 | 1.64 | 2.03 | 1.19 | 1.09 | 0.96 | 0.73 | 0.76 | 0.76 | 0.81 | 1.47 | 1.4 | Part of Aeroflot Group | 15 | 67  | [74] |  | IATA
Norway | Widerøe | 3.80 | 3.43 | 3.28 | 2.45 | 1.77 | 3.00 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | [75][76] |  | ERA
IATA
Poland | Enter Air |  | 3.1 | 2.2 | 1.72 |  |  | 1.12 | 1.17 | 1.11 | 1.17 | - | - | - | - | - | 1.2 | — | 19 | 74  | [77] |  |
Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Airlines |  | 2.9 | 2.25 | 0.87 | 0.57 | 2.60 | 1.89 | 2.29 |  |  |  |  |  | 1.4 | 1.0 |  |  |  |  | 32 | 57  | [78][79] |  | IATA
Russia | Red Wings Airlines |  | 2.72 | 2.21 | 3.00 | 1.54 | 3.07 | 2.62 | 1.62 | 0.92 | 1.04 | 0.92 | 0.35 | 0.82 | 0.78 | 0.88 | - | - | - | - | 18 | 20  | [80][81] |  |
Luxembourg | Luxair[t] |  | 2.5 | 2.05 | 1.08 | 0.66 | 2.15 | 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  | [82][83] |  | A4E
ERA
IATA
Ukraine
Malta | SkyUp[u] | 2.5 | 1.55 | 1.08 | 2.57 | 1.25 | 1.71 | 0.44 | — | 14 | 64 | [84]
[85] |  |
Portugal | SATA Group[v] |  | 2.4 | 1.92 | 1.28 | 0.67 | 1.71 | 0.89 | 0.99 | 0.86 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | [86] |  | ERA
IATA
Romania | TAROM |  | 2.3 | 1.99 | 1.5 | 0.90 | 3.3 | 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  | [87][88] | SkyTeam | IATA
Russia | Azimuth |  | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.09 | 1.22 | 1.25 | 0.67 | 0.07 | — | 11 | 31 | [89][90] |  |
Russia | Azur Air | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 3.73 | 1.93 | 5.79 | 4.24 | 3.75 | 2.34 | 2.35 | 0.21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 27 |  | [91][92][93] |  |
Belarus | Belavia |  |  | 1.6 |  |  | 4.00 | 3.39 | 3.0 | 2.49 | 2.09 | 1.97 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.0 |  | 0.7 |  |  |  | 29 | 48  | [94]
[95] |  | IATA
Croatia | Croatia Airlines |  | 1.73 | 1.45 | 0.79 | 0.62 | 2.18 | 2.17 | 2.13 | 1.94 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.5 |  | 13 | 40  | [96][97][98][99] | Star Alliance | ERA
IATA
Moldova
Romania | HiSky |  | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | —  |  |  | [100][101] |  |
Malta | Air Malta |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.60 | 1.73 | 1.74 | 1.76 | 1.66 | 1.68 | 1.68 | 1.64 | 1.74 | 1.63 | 1.61 | 8 | 37 | [102][103] |  | ERA
IATA
Iceland | PLAY | 1.65 | 1.52 | 0.79 | 0.10 | —  | 10 | 41 | [104][105] |  |
Norway | Norse Atlantic Airways | 1.5  | 0.98 | 0.30 |  | —  | 12 | 11 | [106] |  |
Russia | Aurora Group[w] |  | 1.35 | 1.16 | 1.07 | Part of Aeroflot Group | —  |  |  | [107][108] |  |
Russia | NordStar |  | 1.26 | 1.08 | 1.16 | 0.88 | 1.28 | 1.42 | 1.4 | 1.29 | 1.13 | 1.1 | 1.24 | 1.16 | 0.77 | 0.54 | - | — | 15 | 50  | [109]
[110] |  | IATA
United Kingdom | Loganair | 1.36  | 1.23 | 1.29 | 0.73 | 0.35 | 0.95 | 0.76 | 0.77 | 0.75 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 34 | 44  | [111] |  | ERA
Russia | Yamal Airlines |  |  |  | 1.26 | 0.70 | 1.75 | 1.97 | 1.79 | 1.45 | 1.43 | 1.45 | 1.3 | 0.91 | 0.57 | 0.5 |  |  |  |  | 36 | 38  | [112] |  |
Russia | IrAero |  | 1.14 | 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.95 |  |  |  |  | 0.27 | 0.27 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | [113][114] |  |
Russia | Ikar |  | 1.1 |  | 1.72 | 0.76 | 2.16 | 2.02 | 1.38 | 0.99 | 1.08 | 1.24 | 0.28 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 29  | [115] |  |
Russia | I-Fly |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1.13 | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.61 | 0.97 | 1.05 | 0.63 | 0.41 | 0.38 | - | - | - | - | 10 | 30  | [116] |  |
Bulgaria | Bulgaria Air |  | 0.73 | 0.63 | 0.57 | 0.51 | 1.40 | 1.27 | 1.24 | 1.25 | 1.27 | 1.40 |  |  |  |  |  | 1.20 | 1.12 |  | 10 | 26  | [117][118] |  | IATA
Ukraine | Windrose |  |  |  |  |  | 1.44 | 1.30 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 12 | 19 | [119] |  |
Ukraine | Ukraine International Airlines | - | - | - | 2.79 | 1.73 | 7.97 | 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 | [120]
[121]
[122] |  | IATA

## Notes

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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 AnadoluJet.
7. ^ Includes Wizz Air UK, Wizz Air Abu Dhabi and Wizz Air Malta.
8. ^ Includes Rossiya Airlines and Pobeda.
9. ^ Includes Scandinavian Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines Ireland and SAS Link.
10. ^ Includes Norwegian Air Norway and Norwegian Air Sweden.
11. ^ Includes TUI Airways (formerly Thomson Airways), TUI fly Belgium (Jetairfly), TUI fly Germany (TUIfly), TUI fly Netherlands (Arkefly), TUI fly Nordic
12. ^ Includes Olympic Air.
13. ^ Includes TAP Express.
14. ^ Includes Citrus.
15. ^ Includes LOT Charters.
16. ^ Includes Air Astana and FlyArystan.
17. ^ Includes Czech Airlines, SmartWings, Smartwings Hungary, Smartwings Poland, Smartwings Slovakia.
18. ^ Includes Canarias Airlines and Naysa Servicios Aéreos
19. ^ Includes Icelandair and Air Iceland Connect.
20. ^ Includes Luxair Luxembourg Airlines and LuxairTours.
21. ^ Includes SkyUp MT.
22. ^ Includes Azores Airlines and SATA Air Açores
23. ^ Includes Yakutia Airlines, Khabarovsk Airlines, Kamchatka Air Enterprise, Chukotavia, Polar Airlines, Taiga Airlines/Aviashelf.

## See also

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* List of airlines of Europe
* World's largest airlines
* List of largest airlines in North America
* List of largest airlines in Central America & the Caribbean
* List of largest airlines in Africa
* List of largest airlines in Asia
* List of largest airlines in South America
* List of largest airlines in Oceania

## References

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## Further reading

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* "Europe's Top 20 airline groups by passengers 2017; Lufthansa wrests top spot from Ryanair". CAPA Centre for Aviation. 21 January 2018.
* "Europe's top 20 airline groups by passengers 2023: Ryanair's lead is set to endure". CAPA Centre for Aviation. 28 March 2024.

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