{"id":321776,"date":"2025-11-24T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/worlds-largest-airline-asms\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:00:15","slug":"the-worlds-largest-airline-by-number-of-available-seat-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=321776","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Largest Airline By Number Of Available Seat Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest airline is&#8230;. well, it depends on one&#8217;s criteria. This article will consider airlines by available seat miles (ASMs). <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028143\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-airlines-revenue-per-seat-mile-development\/\" >ASMs are a measure of an airline&#8217;s capacity<\/a><\/span>. It is calculated by multiplying the number of available seats on each aircraft by the distance it flies. This is a common measure for airlines, although it comes with its own set of issues. For example, flag carriers with more premium seating options are penalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines leads the world with the most ASMs and also tops the list with fleet size, although Delta and American rival it by other metrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,3133,4882,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-available-seats","category-largest-airline","category-united-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321777,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321776\/revisions\/321777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}