List of largest airlines in Asia

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.

By Passengers Carried (Millions)

Rank	Airline / Holding	'16	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	'09	Passenger Fleet	Current Destinations	Alliance / Association
1	China Southern Airlines	27.2 (Mar)	109.4	100.9	91.8	86.5	80.7	76.4	49.4	512	190	SkyTeam
2	China Eastern ¹	24.3 (Mar)	93.8	83.8	79.1	73.1	68.7	64.9	44.0	451	217	SkyTeam
3	Air China	23.0 (Mar)	89.8	83.0	77.7	72.4	69.4	60	41.3	367	201	Star Alliance
4	All Nippon Airways ³	7.1 (Feb)	46.6	50.4	49.0	47.4	44.9	45.7	50.4	243	86	Star Alliance
5	Emirates Airlines ⁵		-	49.3	44.5	39.4	34.0	31.4	27.5	219	140	n/a
6	Air Asia Group ²		50.6	45.6	42.6	34.1	29.9	25.7	22.7	174	121	n/a
7	Lion Air Group ⁶		-	45.0	37.9	32.0	27.0	20.5	-	199	79	n/a
8	Japan Airlines ⁴	6.2 (Feb)	39.9	39.1	38.6	37.6	35.4	44.7	48.0	116	92	oneworld
9	Hainan Airlines ⁸		-	35.6	26.3	22.6	20.5	18.6	17.9	157	110	n/a
10	Cathay Pacific ⁷	5.6 (Feb)	34.0	31.5	29.9	29.0	27.6	26.8	23.3	146	112	oneworld
11	Garuda Indonesia ²¹	5.0 (Feb)	32.9	29.1	24.9	20.4	17.1	12.5	-	186	133	SkyTeam
12	Qatar Airways		-	27.9	25.2	24.3	22.5	18.2	18.6	161 Orders:219	151	oneworld
13	Korean Air ¹³		-	23.3	23.6	24.0	23.3	22.9	20.4	153 Orders:128	116	SkyTeam
14	IndiGo		29.7	22.8	19.3	15.8	-	-	-	101 Orders:430	38	n/a
15	Jet Airways ¹⁰	4.0 (Feb)	22.9	18.3	17.0	17.4	16.2	14.2	15.6	114	69	n/a
16	Etihad Airways ¹²		-	22.0	18.0	17.0	16.0	14.0	12.0	152 Orders:199	133	n/a
17	Xiamen Airlines		-	20.4	18.6	16.8	15.3	13.6	11.1	102	59	SkyTeam
18	Shenzhen Airlines		-	-	20.0	21.5	18.3	17.6	15.1	136	74	Star Alliance
19	Singapore Airlines ⁹	1.9 (Jan)	22.5	22.2	18.7	18.1	16.9	16.6	16.5	109 Orders:110	62	Star Alliance
20	Cebu Pacific ²²	1.6 (Jan)	18.4	16.9	14.4	12.3	10.5	9.6	-	54	62	n/a
21	Thai Airways International ¹⁴	1.6 (Jan)	18.4	17.7	21.5	20.6	18.4	18.2	18.5	95	78	Star Alliance
22	Asiana Airlines ¹⁶		-	17.3	16.3	15.0	14.7	13.9	12.4	85	108	Star Alliance
23	Air India ¹¹		3.3	16.7	17.3	16.0	-	15.0	13.0	113	90	Star Alliance
24	Sichuan Airlines		-	-	16.7	14.4	12.9	10.7	9.2	81	60+	n/a
25	Malaysia Airlines ¹⁵		-	16.0	17.2	13.4	13.3	13.1	11.9	98 Orders :14	61	oneworld
26	Vietnam Airlines		-	-	15.0	14.0	-	-	9.3	87	52	SkyTeam
27	Saudia		-	14.8	11.5	10.3	8.4	-	-	94	96	Skyteam
28	China Airlines ¹⁸		14.7	14.1	12.8	11.4	-	11.3	10.0	82	118	SkyTeam
29	Shandong Airlines		-	-	14.0	12.5	-	-	-	75	60	n/a
30	Philippine Airlines ²⁰		12.0	12.0	11.2	12.7	-	-	-	73	74	n/a
31	SpiceJet ¹⁷		11.7	12.6	11.7	9.5	8.6	6.6	-	58	54	n/a
32	Spring Airlines		-	-	-	9.1	7.2	5.9	4.3	39	34	-
33	EVA Airways		10.0	8.9	8.0	7.5	6.6	6.4	6.0	61	73	Star Alliance
34	Gulf Air		-	-	-	-	7.1	-	5.7	26	32	-
35	Tigerair ¹⁹		4.6	6.1	5.1	4.4	3.9	-	-	26	35	-
36	Air Arabia		-	-	6.1	5.3	-	-	-	35	89	-
37	Mahan Air		-	5.6	5.5	5.5	5.4	-	-	53	57	-
38	Pakistan International Airways		-	-	-	5.3	6.0	5.5	5.5	38	62	-
39	Oman Air		-	-	5.0	4.4	-	-	-	30	44	-
40	Bangkok Airways		-	4.8	4.2	3.6	3.1	2.7	-	27	23	-
41	Iran Air		-	4.5	4.9	5.3	5.2	-	-	51	50	-
42	SriLankan Airlines		-	-	4.7	4.9	-	-	-	23	61	oneworld
43	EL AL		-	-	4.4	4.2	-	-	-	39	40	-
44	Air Asia X		2.6	4.2	3.2	2.6	-	-	-	18	19	-
45	Air Astana		-	-	3.7	3.2	3.1	2.5	2.2	32	63	-
46	Iran Aseman Airlines		-	2.6	3.5	3.6	-	3.4	-	34	53	-
47	Juneyao Airlines		-	-	-	-	-	3.6	-	34	38	-
48	Royal Jordanian Airlines		-	-	-	3.4	3.2	-	-	33	61	oneworld
49	Uzbekistan Airways		-	-	2.7	2.6	-	-	-	37	58	-
50	Kuwait Airways		-	-	-	-	-	2.6	-	17	34	-
51	Middle East Airlines		-	-	-	2.2	2.1	-	-	19	33	SkyTeam
52	Ata Airlines		-	1.9	1.6	1.1	-	-	-	10	19	-
53	Turkmenistan Airlines		-	-	-	1.8	-	-	-	25	23	-
54	Air Macau		-	-	1.8	1.6	1.4	-	-	15	23	-
55	Kish Air		-	1.6	1.5	1.6	1.4	-	-	11	18	-
56	Biman Bangladesh Airlines		-	-	1.6	1.5	1.3	-	-	14	15	-

Notes

^1 Includes figures for Shanghai Airlines and China United Airlines.
^2 Includes figures for AirAsia Philippines (includes AirAsia Zest), Indonesia AirAsia and Thai AirAsia.
^3 Includes figures for Air Japan, ANA Wings and Vanilla Air.
^4 Includes figures for J-Air and JAL Express.
^5 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar.
^6 Includes figures for Batik Air, Wings Air , Malindo Air and Thai Lion Air.
^7 Includes figures for Dragonair.
^8 Includes figures for Chang An Airlines, China Xinhua Airlines and Shan Xi Airlines.
^9 Includes figures for Scoot and Silkair.
^10 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar. Includes figures for JetKonnect.
^11 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar. Includes figures for Air India Express and Air India Regional.
^12 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar.
^13 Includes figures for Jin Air.
^14 Includes figures for Thai Smile.
^15 Includes figures for Firefly and MASwings.
^16 Includes figures for Air Busan.
^17 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar.
^18 Includes figures for Mandarin Airlines.
^19 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar.
^20 Includes figures for PAL Express.
^21 Includes figures for Citilink
^22 Includes figures for Cebgo

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