The Top 10 Passenger Airlines With The Largest Fleets In The World Ranked By Capacity

Airlines can be ranked in various ways. They can be ranked by the number of aircraft in service, the number of passengers it carries in a given period, network size, or the revenue the airline generates. This list ranks airlines by airline capacity—a criterion that still places the big four US airlines as the world’s largest airlines. It turns out that the largest airlines by capacity are a mix of full-service and low-cost airlines ( Southwest is notable for being essentially a domestic carrier). Here are the ten largest airlines based on airline capacity according to data from ch-aviation.