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.

Country	Airline/holding	'23	'22	'21	'20	'19	'18	'17	'16	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	'09	'08	'07	'06	Fleet	Destinations	Sources	Alliance	Association
Ireland Malta Poland United Kingdom	Ryanair^[a]	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]	122.5	101.77	46.9	36.35	145.2	142.3	130.04	117.4	115.2	112.5	110.4	108.9	112.0	95.1	81.2	76.4	68.8	59.1	728	321	[2]	Star Alliance	A4E IATA
United Kingdom Ireland Spain	International Airlines Group^[c]	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]	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
Turkey	Turkish Airlines^[e]	83.4	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	400	337	[6] [7]	Star Alliance	AIRE IATA
United Kingdom Austria Switzerland	EasyJet^[f]	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	[8] [9] [10]		A4E
Hungary United Kingdom Malta United Arab Emirates	Wizz Air^[g]	60.3	45.6	21.7	16.67	39.8	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]
Russia	Aeroflot Group^[h]	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	[12] [13]		IATA
Turkey	Pegasus Airlines	31.93	26.94	20.16	14.71	30.76	29.97	27.82	24.14	22.3	19.7	16.8	13.6	11.3	8.6	5.9	4.4	-	3.1	94	109	[14] [15]		IATA
Sweden Norway Denmark Ireland	SAS Group^[i]	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	[16] [17]	SkyTeam	ERA IATA
Norway Sweden	Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA^[j]	20.6	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	64	130	[18] [19]		A4E
Germany Belgium Denmark Finland Ireland Netherlands Norway Sweden United Kingdom	TUI Group^[k]		16.7	2.02	2.02	26.0						33.7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	133	-	[20] [21]		A4E IATA
United Kingdom	Jet2.com	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	[22] [23]		A4E
Russia	S7 Airlines^[l]	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	[24]		IATA
Portugal	TAP Air Portugal^[m]	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	[25]	Star Alliance	A4E ERA IATA
Greece	Aegean Airlines^[n]	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	[26]	Star Alliance	A4E IATA
Italy	ITA Airways	15	10.1	1.32	—															95	70		SkyTeam	IATA
Turkey	SunExpress	12.6	10.7																	68	92			IATA
Spain	Air Europa	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	[27] [28] [29][30]	SkyTeam	IATA
Finland	Finnair	10.9	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	[31]	oneworld	A4E IATA
Spain	Volotea	10.4	9.4	6.0	3.8	7.6	6.57	4.82	4.3	2.5		1.8	1.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	60	[32]		A4E IATA
Poland	LOT Polish Airlines^[o]	10.03	9.3	4.2	3.59	11.79	10.61	6.89	5.58	6.1	5.9	6.3	5.8	5.5	5.0	4.0	4.3	3.7	-	91	120	[33] [34] [35]	Star Alliance	AIRE IATA
Russia	Ural Airlines	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	[36] [37]		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	[38]		IATA
Germany	Condor		7.0																					IATA
Russia	UTair Aviation	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	[39]		IATA
Czech Republic Hungary Poland Slovakia	Smartwings^[q]		5.2	2.53	1.8	9.6	8.8	8.17	7.3		6.57	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	57	?	[40][41] [42]	SkyTeam	IATA
United Kingdom	Virgin Atlantic	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	[43][44]	SkyTeam	IATA
Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Airways	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			[45][46]		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			[47]		IATA
Latvia	AirBaltic	4.54	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	32	60	[48]		A4E IATA
Russia	Nordwind Airlines	4.3		5.93	2.94	5.54	4.92	3.55	1.79	2.67	4.47	3.66	2.17	1.72	1.19	-	-	-	-	26	97	[49]		IATA
Iceland	Icelandair Group^[s]	4.3	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	[50]		A4E IATA
Greece	Sky Express	4.3	3.30	1.72		1.20	1.00	0.50	0.17	0.07	—									17	43	[51] [52]		ERA
Serbia	Air Serbia	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	[53][54][55][56]		ERA 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	-	-	-	-	15	67	[57]		IATA
Norway	Widerøe	3.3	3.28	2.45	1.77	3.00																		ERA IATA
Poland	Enter Air	3.1	2.2	1.72			1.12	1.17	1.11	1.17	-	-	-	-	-	1.2	—			19	74	[58]
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan Airlines	2.9	2.25	0.87	0.57	2.60	1.89	2.29						1.4	1.0					32	57	[59][60]		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	[61][62]
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	[63][64]		A4E ERA IATA
Portugal	SATA Group^[u]	2.4	1.92	1.28	0.67	1.71	0.89	0.99	0.86													[65]		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	[66][67]	SkyTeam	IATA
Russia	Azimuth	2.3	1.9	2.09	1.22	1.25	0.67	0.07	—											11	31	[68][69]
Russia	Azur Air		2.1	3.73	1.93	5.79	4.24	3.75	2.34	2.35	0.21	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	27		[70][71]
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	[72] [73]		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	[74][75][76][77]	Star Alliance	ERA IATA
Moldova Romania	HiSky	1.6	0.8	0.1	—																	[78][79]
Malta	Air Malta						1.7	1.5		1.73	1.74	1.76	1.66	1.68	1.68	1.64	1.74	1.63	1.61	8	37	[80][81]		ERA IATA
Ukraine Malta	SkyUp^[v]	1.55	1.08	2.57	1.25	1.71	0.44	—												14	64	[82] [83]
Iceland	PLAY	1.52	0.79	0.10	—															10	41	[84]
Russia	Aurora	1.35	1.16	1.07	Part of Aeroflot Group								—									[85][86]
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	[87] [88]		IATA
United Kingdom	Loganair	1.23	1.29	0.73	0.35	0.95	0.76	0.77	0.75	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	34	44	[89]		ERA
Russia	IrAero	1.14	0.98	0.93	0.95																	[90][91]
Russia	Ikar	1.1		1.72	0.76	2.16	2.02	1.38	0.99	1.08	1.24	0.28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	29	[92]
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	[93]
Russia	I-Fly						1.13	0.75	0.4	0.61	0.97	1.05	0.63	0.41	0.38	-	-	-	-	10	30	[94]
Norway	Norse Atlantic Airways	0.98	0.30		—															12	11	[95]
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	[96][97]		IATA
Ukraine	Windrose					1.44	1.30													12	19	[98]
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	[99] [100] [101]		IATA