Whick is the biggest airline?

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Mike G

By most measures, American Airlines is the largest in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_largest_airlines

cjh

The overall largest airline in the world is American Airlines; however there are many categories of worlds largest. Below I have listed specific categories which the International Air Transport Association has posted. These are 2006 results; 2007 results have not yet come out

Largest by:

Scheduled total passengers
1American Airlines99,835
2Southwest Airlines96,277
3Delta Air Lines73,584
4United Airlines69,265
5Northwest Airlines55,925
6Lufthansa51,213
7Air France49,411
8All Nippon Airways49,226
9Japan Airlines48,911
10China Southern Airlines48,512

Scheduled international passengers
1Ryanair40,532
2Lufthansa38,236
3Air France30,417
4British Airways29,498
5KLM22,322
6Easyjet21,917
7American Airlines21,228
8Singapore Airlines18,022
9Emirates16,748
10Cathay Pacific16,667

Scheduled domestic passengers carried
1Southwest Airlines96,277
2American Airlines78,607
3Delta Air Lines63,446
4United Airlines58,801
5Northwest Airlines45,743
6All Nippon Airways45,328
7China Southern Airlines45,249
8Japan Airlines37,154
9Continental Airlines35,852
10US Airways35,852

Scheduled passenger-kilometres flown
1American Airlines224,330,000
2United Airlines188,684,000
3Delta Air Lines158,952,000
4Air France123,458,000
5Continental Airlines122,712,000
6Northwest Airlines116,845,000
7British Airways114,896,000
8Lufthansa114,672,000
9Southwest Airlines108,935,000
10Japan Airlines89,314,000

Scheduled international passenger-kilometres flown
1Air France112,689,000
2British Airways111,336,000
3Lufthansa109,384,000
4Singapore Airlines87,646,000
5American Airlines81,129,000
6United Airlines74,578,000
7Emirates74,578,000
5KLM71,761,000
6Cathay Pacific71,124,000
10Japan Airlines59,913,000

Scheduled domestic passenger-kilometres flown
1American Airlines143,201,000
2United Airlines114,106,000
3Southwest Airlines108,935,000
4Delta Air Lines104,626,000
5Continental Airlines70,810,000
6Northwest Airlines64,979,000
7China Southern Airlines59,006,000
8US Airways43,606,000
9All Nippon Airways39,586,000
10JetBlue Airways37,513,000

Fleet size
1American Airlines659
2Delta Air Lines578
3Lufthansa526
4Northwest Airlines515
5Southwest Airlines515
6United Airlines460
7SkyWest Inc.436
8Air France-KLM400
9Continental Airlines367
10US Airways357

Hope this helps