This is a list of the largest airlines in Asia by fleet size and total passengers carried in a twelve-month period. The table is updated periodically as and when new monthly data are available. Figures are for individual airlines; aggregate figures for airline groups (airlines and their partners/subsidiaries related by full equity ownership) are shown only when they are officially published. The list excludes companies headquartered on the Asian side of Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan.

By passengers carried (millions, 2024 latest available figures)

Rank Country Airline / holding '24 '23 '22 '21 '20 '19 '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 '13 '12 '11 '10 Passenger fleet Current
destinations		 Sources Alliance
1  China China Southern Airlines 164.7 142.2 62.6 98.5 96.9 151.6 139.8 126.2 114.6 109.4 100.9 91.8 86.5 80.7 76.4 629 216 [1][2][3] n/a
2  India IndiGo 106.4 103.5 76.7 48.4 35.0 84.7 61.9 49.2 41.0 29.7 22.8 19.3 15.8 12 8.5 342 122 [4][5][6][7][1] n/a
3  China Air China[note 1] 62.4 (May) 128.4 38.6 69.0 68.7 115.0 109.7 101.5 96.5 89.8 83.0 77.7 72.4 69.4 60.0 456 201 [8][9] Star Alliance
4  United Arab Emirates Emirates[note 2] 51.9 43.6 19.6 6.6 56.2 58.6 58.5 56.1 51.9 49.3 44.5 39.4 34.0 31.4 27.4 252 157 [10][11][2] n/a
5  Singapore Singapore Airlines[3][note 3] 39 34.7 20.7 2.2 7.0 38.1 35.5 32.4 33.7 22.5 22.2 18.7 18.1 16.9 16.6 157 137 [12][13] Star Alliance
6  India Air India Limited[note 4] 26.3 (May) 54.5 22.1 14.1 11.3 30.4 28.3 26.4 23.5 18.0 16.7 17.3 16.0 - 15.0 122 102 [14][15][16] Star Alliance
7  Philippines Cebu Pacific[note 5] 24.5 20.9 14.9 3.4 5.0 22.5 20.3 19.7 19.1 18.4 16.9 14.4 12.3 10.5 9.6 52 62 [17][18][19][20][21][22] Archived 2020-05-29 at the Wayback Machine[23] Value Alliance
8  Philippines Philippine Airlines[note 6] 11.7 (Sep) 14.7 9.3 2.9 3.9 16.7 15.9 14.5 13.4 12.0 12.0 11.2 12.7 - - 78 72 [24][25][26] n/a
9  Japan All Nippon Airways[note 7] 6.4 (Feb) 42.7 29.2 18.8 13.1 50.7 49.8 49.2 47.3 50.8 50.4 49.0 47.4 44.9 45.7 225 97 [27][28] Star Alliance
10  Japan Japan Airlines[note 8] 6.3 (Feb) 40.7 30.1 16.2 8.5 (Apr) 44.6 43.6 42.3 40.6 39.9 39.1 38.6 37.6 35.4 44.7 156 92 [29] oneworld
11  India SpiceJet 4.0 (May) 10.2 12.4 9.0 8.0 24.3 19.2 17.3 14.3 11.7 12.6 11.7 9.5 8.6 6.6 118 53 [30] n/a
12  India Akasa Air 3.0 (May) 6.2 0.7 22 28 [31] n/a
13  India Alliance Air (India) 0.6 (May) 1.6 1.5 1.0 0.8 1.6 1.6 1.0 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 - 21 75 [32] n/a
14  China China Eastern Airlines[note 9] 115.6 42.5 79.0 74.5 130.0 121.1 110.8 101.7 93.8 83.8 79.1 73.1 68.7 64.9 588 248 [33][34][35] SkyTeam
15  Malaysia Air Asia Group[note 10] 57.0 34.2 7.7 22.8 83.5 73.0 63.3 60.1 54.8 48.8 45.2 34.1 29.9 25.7 255 165 [36] [37] [38] -
16  Qatar Qatar Airways[note 2] 40.0 31.6 18.6 5.8 32.4 29.5 29.2 32.0 30.0 26.7 22.4 18.0 17.0 16.0 253 198 [39][40][41] oneworld
17  Saudi Arabia Saudia 30.3 31.9 - - 36.9 - 32.2 30.0 27.9 14.8 11.5 10.3 8.4 - 157 140 [42][43][44] SkyTeam
18  Vietnam VietJet Air 25.3 20.5 5.4 15 25.0 23.1 17.1 14.1 9.3 - - - - - 77 115 [45] n/a
19  Vietnam Vietnam Airlines[note 11] 24.2 21.1 6.1 14.1 22.9 21.9 21.9 20.7 17.4 15.7 15.0 14.0 - - 103 64 [46][47][permanent dead link‍] SkyTeam
20  China Hainan Airlines[note 12] - 21.1 41.3 37.0 81.7 79.9 71.7 46.3 38.6 35.6 26.3 22.6 20.5 18.6 221 110 [48][49] n/a
21  Indonesia Garuda Indonesia[note 13] 20.0 14.9 11.0 10.8 31.9 38.4 36.2 34.9 32.9 29.1 24.9 20.4 17.1 12.5 134 90 [50][51][52] SkyTeam
22  Hong Kong Cathay Pacific[note 14] 18.0 2.8 0.7 4.6 35.2 35.4 34.8 34.3 34.0 31.5 29.9 29.0 27.6 26.8 159 88 [53] oneworld
23  United Arab Emirates Air Arabia[note 15] 16.7 12.8 5.0 3.0 15.0 13.0 12.0 11.5 10.8 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.6 77 180 n/a
24  Malaysia Malaysia Airlines[note 16] 14.5 9.9 1.7 3.9 - - 14.0 20.7 15.0 16.0 17.2 13.4 13.3 13.1 77 79 [54][55][56] oneworld
25  United Arab Emirates Etihad Airways[note 2] 14.0 10.0 3.1 4.2 17.5 17.8 18.6 18.4 17.6 14.8 11.5 10.2 8.3 7.1 103 81 [57][58][59][60] n/a
26  United Arab Emirates Flydubai 13.8 10.6 5.6 3.2 9.6 11.0 10.9 10.4 9.0 7.3 6.9 5.1 - - 88 127 [61] n/a
27  Thailand Thai Airways International[note 17] 13.6 9.0 1.6 5.9 24.5 24.3 24.6 22.3 21.2 19.1 21.5 20.6 18.4 18.2 79 65 [62] Star Alliance
28  Taiwan EVA Airways[note 18] 11.2 2.2 0.3 2.3 12.8 12.5 12.1 11.2 10.0 8.9 8.0 7.5 6.6 6.4 87 62 [63][64] Star Alliance
29  Taiwan China Airlines[note 19] 9.5 1.5 0.2 2.4 15.6 15.6 15.1 14.7 14.7 14.1 12.8 11.4 - 11.3 84 102 [65][66] SkyTeam
29  South Korea Jeju Air - 7.9 6.5 4.3 8.4 12.0 4.6 - - - - - - - 39 41 [67][68] Value Alliance
30  Kazakhstan Air Astana[note 20] 8.0 7.4 5.6 3.6 5.1 4.3 4.2 3.8 - - 3.7 3.3 29 58 [69] n/a
31  Oman Oman Air 6.2 9.9 1.2 - - - 8.5 7.7 6.4 5.1 4.9 3.8 3.3 50 53 [70] oneworld
32  Jordan Royal Jordanian 5.6 3.0 1.6 0.8 3.3 3.3 3.1 - - - - - - - 31 54 [71] oneworld
33  Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Airways 5.0 4.0 3.0 1.0 11.0 10.1 9.9 - 8.6 7.8 6.5 5.2 - - 39 65 [72] n/a
34  Thailand Bangkok Airways 4.0 2.7 0.5 1.9 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.7 5.6 5.1 4.9 35 30 [73] n/a
35  Taiwan Starlux Airlines 3.5 0.3 21 29 n/a
36  Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Airlines 3.5 1.5 0.2 5.3 5.7 5.8 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.3 3.8 3.3 25 48 [74] oneworld
37  Bangladesh Biman Bangladesh Airlines - 2.8 1.2 0.9 1.8 1.8 1.7 21 40 [75] n/a
-  South Korea Korean Air[note 21] - - 5.7 7.5 27.0 - 26.8 26.8 24.9 23.3 23.6 24.0 23.3 22.9 159 121 [76][77] SkyTeam
-  Pakistan Pakistan International Airlines - - - 9.8 14.6 10.4 9.8 8.9 9.2 9.5 9.7 11.1 11.5 10.5 47 69 n/a
-  Indonesia Lion Air Group[note 22] - - 9.9 (Lion Air only) - - 56.3 51.8 40.8 (Lion & Batik only) 53.0 45.0 37.9 32.0 27.0 20.5 140 90 [78][79] n/a
-  South Korea Asiana Airlines[note 23] - - - - - 23.5 17.2 18.4 - 17.3 16.3 15.0 14.7 13.9 83 90 [80][81][82] Star Alliance

Notes

  1. ^ Includes figures for Shenzhen Airlines (including Kunming Airlines), Air Macau and Dalian Airlines.
  2. ^ a b c Based on fiscal year ending 31 March.
  3. ^ Includes figures for Scoot and SilkAir.
  4. ^ Includes figures for Air India Express, AIX Connect, and Vistara.
  5. ^ Includes figures for Cebgo.
  6. ^ Includes figures for PAL Express.
  7. ^ Includes figures for Air Japan, ANA Wings and Peach Aviation.
  8. ^ Includes figures for J-Air, JAL Express and ZIPAIR Tokyo.
  9. ^ Includes figures for Shanghai Airlines and China United Airlines.
  10. ^ Includes figures for Thai AirAsia, Indonesia AirAsia, Philippines AirAsia, AirAsia Cambodia, AirAsia X and Thai AirAsia X.
  11. ^ Includes figures for Vietnam Air Services Company and Pacific Airlines.
  12. ^ Includes figures for Chang An Airlines, China Xinhua Airlines and Shan Xi Airlines.
  13. ^ Includes figures for Citilink.
  14. ^ Includes figures for Dragonair and HK Express.
  15. ^ Includes figures for Air Arabia Egypt, Air Arabia Maroc, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, Fly Arna, and Fly Jinnah.
  16. ^ Includes figures for Firefly and MASwings.
  17. ^ Includes figures for Thai Smile.
  18. ^ Includes figures for Uni Air.
  19. ^ Includes figures for Mandarin Airlines.
  20. ^ Includes figures for FlyArystan.
  21. ^ Includes figures for Jin Air.
  22. ^ Includes figures for Batik Air, Wings Air, Batik Air Malaysia and Thai Lion Air.
  23. ^ Includes figures for Air Busan and Air Seoul

References

  1. ^ "Indigo2022 Statistics | Directorate General of Civil Aviation | Government of India". www.dgca.gov.in. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  2. ^ "The Emirates Group Annual Report 2018-2019" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Changi Airport's 2024 passenger traffic hit 99.1% of pre-pandemic levels". The Straits Times. 2025-01-22. Archived from the original on 2025-01-23. Retrieved 2025-01-27.

See also

Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_airlines_in_Asia
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