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The following is a list of the largest [[airline]]s 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.

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! Country!! width="80" |Airline/holding
!'24
! '23 !! '22 !!'21!!'20!!'19!!'18!! '17 !! '16 !! '15 !! '14 !! '13 !! '12 !! '11 !! '10 !! '09 !! '08 !! '07 !!'06 !! {{vert header|Fleet}} !! {{vert header|Destinations}} !! {{vert header|Sources}} !! {{vert header|Alliance}} !! {{vert header|Association}}
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Ireland}}<br>{{flag|Malta}}<br>{{flag|Poland}}<br>{{flag|United Kingdom}}|| [[Ryanair]]{{efn|name=Ryanair}}
|197.2
| 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|| <small>[https://investor.ryanair.com/traffic]</small>||	|| [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Germany}}<br>{{flag|Austria}}<br>{{flag|Belgium}}<br>{{flag|Switzerland}}|| [[Lufthansa Group]]{{efn|name=Lufthansa}}
|131.3
| 122.54<!--122.535-->|| 101.78<!--101.775--> ||46.95 ||36.35 ||145.20 ||141.94<!--141.935--> ||130.04 ||109.67 ||107.68 ||105.99 ||104.59 ||103.59 ||100.60 ||92.69 ||76.54 ||70.54 ||63.10 ||68.06
|728||321|| <small>[https://investor-relations.lufthansagroup.com/en/publications/traffic-figures.html]</small>|| [[Star Alliance]]|| [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}<br>{{flag|Ireland}}<br>{{flag|Spain}}|| [[International Airlines Group]]{{efn|name=International Airlines Group}}
|122.05
| 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 || <small>[https://www.iairgroup.com/en/newsroom/traffic-statistics]</small> || [[oneworld]] || [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|France}}<br>{{flag|Netherlands}}|| [[Air France-KLM]]{{efn|name=Air France-KLM}}
|97.96
| 93.6 || 83.32 || 44.67 || 34.1 || 104.2 || 101.45 || 98.72 || 93.4 || 89.8 || 87.4 || 78.44 || 77.45<!-- 77.445 mil -->|| 75.8 || 70.8 || 71.4 || 73.8 || 74.8 || 73.5
| 574 || 231 || <small>[https://www.airfranceklm.com/en/finance/financial-results]<br>[https://www.airfranceklm.com/sites/default/files/2022-10/AFKL%20Q3_2022%20Press%20release%20EN%20sig_0.pdf]</small> || [[SkyTeam]] || [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}<br>{{flag|Austria}}<br>{{flag|Switzerland}}|| [[EasyJet]]{{efn|name=EasyJet}}<!--Do NOT use EasyJet announcements about the Financial Year data, that are oftenly presented as just the Year.-->
|86.51
<!--Following years need rechecking-->| 82.8 || 69.7 || 20.4 || 16.09 || 103.3 || 88.5 || 81.63 || 74.5 || 69.9 || 65.3 || 61.33 || 59.21<!-- 59.205 mil -->|| 55.5 || 49.7 || 46.1 || 44.6 || 38.2 || 33.0
| 300 || 136 || <small>[https://corporate.easyjet.com/investors/traffic-statistics/default.aspx]<br>[https://corporate.easyjet.com/investors/regulatory-news]<br>[https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/uk/easyjet1/rns/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=2&newsid=1647770]</small>|| || [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Turkey}}|| [[Turkish Airlines]]{{efn|name=Turkish Airlines}}
| 85.17 || 83.39 || 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
| 492 || 352 || <small>[https://investor.turkishairlines.com/en/financial-and-operational/traffic-results]<br>[https://investor.turkishairlines.com/documents/december-2024-traffic.pdf]</small>|| [[Star Alliance]]|| [[Airlines International Representation in Europe|AIRE]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Hungary}}<br>{{flag|Poland}}<br>{{flag|United Kingdom}}<br>{{flag|Malta}}<br>{{flag|United Arab Emirates}}
| [[Wizz Air]]{{efn|name=Wizz Air}}
|62.69 || 60.31 || 45.66 || 21.71 || 16.67 || 39.80 || 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 || <small>[https://www.wizzair.com/en-gb/information-and-services/investor-relations/investors/traffic-statistics][https://corporate.wizzair.com/en-GB/investor_relations/traffic_statistics]</small> ||	|| 
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Russia}}|| [[Aeroflot|Aeroflot Group]]{{efn|name=Aeroflot Group}}
|55.3
|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 || <small>[https://www.rusaviainsider.com/aeroflot-2024-traffic-growth-exceeds-the-russian-industry-average-three-fold/]<br>[https://www.favt.ru/novosti-novosti/?id=6064]<br>[https://www.aeroflot.ru/ru-ru/news]</small> || <s>[[SkyTeam]]</s> || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Turkey}}|| [[Pegasus Airlines]]
| 37.48 || 31.93 || 26.94 || 20.16 || 14.71 || 30.76 || 29.97 || 27.82 || 24.14 || 22.34 || 19.74 || 16.82 || 13.58 || 11.3 || 8.6 || 5.9 || 4.4 || - || 3.1
| 112 || 139 || <small>[https://www.kap.org.tr/en/Bildirim/1380499]<br>[https://www.pegasusinvestorrelations.com/en/operational-information/annual-reports]<br>[https://www.flypgs.com/en/about-pegasus/fleet-information]<br>[https://www.flypgs.com/en/useful-info/info-about-flights/our-network]</small> ||	|| [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Sweden}}<br>{{flag|Norway}}<br>{{flag|Denmark}}<br>{{flag|Ireland}}|| [[SAS Group]]{{efn|name=SAS Group}}
|25.2
| 21.1 || 17.87 || 10.19 || 8.81 || 29.8 || 30.0 || 28.37 || 29.4 || 27.1 || 27.3 || 25.56 || 25.32<!-- 25.315 mil -->|| 24.7 || 23.1 || 22.8 || 27.0 || 27.2 || 26.9
| 134 || 124 || <small>[https://www.sasgroup.net/newsroom/press-releases/2023/sas-annual-and-sustainability-report--fiscal-year-2022/]<br>[https://www.sasgroup.net/files/Main/290/3701838/sas-annual-and-sustainability-report-fy-2022.pdf]</small> || [[SkyTeam]] || [[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Norway}}<br>{{flag|Sweden}}|| [[Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA]]{{efn|name=Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA}}
|26.43<!--Excluding Widerøe, 26.43 TOTAL--> || 20.62 || 17.84 || 6.19 || 6.87 || 36.20 || 37.34 || 33.15 || 29.3 || 25.8 || 24.0 || 20.71 || 17.69<!-- 17.685 mil -->|| 15.7 || 13.0 || 10.8 || 9.1 || 6.9 || 5.1
| 88 || 130 || <small>[https://www.norwegian.com/en/about/company/investor-relations/reports-and-presentations/]<br>[https://live.euronext.com/en/products/equities/company-news/2025-01-07-norwegian-air-shuttle-asa-nas-traffic-figures-december]<br>[https://www.norwegian.com/globalassets/ip/documents/about-us/company/investor-relations/reports-and-presentations/monthly-traffic-figures/traffic-report-december-2022.pdf]</small> || || [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Germany}}<br>{{flag|Belgium}}<br>{{flag|Netherlands}}<br>{{flag|Sweden}}<br>{{flag|United Kingdom}}|| [[TUI Group]]{{efn|name=TUI Group}}
|20.3
| 19 || 16.7<!--11.29 was only the TUI Airways result--> || 2.02 || 2.02 || 26.0<!--11.82 was only the TUI Airways result--> || || || || || || 33.7 || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|133 || - || <small>[https://www.ttgmedia.com/topics?topics=tui][http://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/10504-tui-travel-confirms-2013-results-exceeds-carbon-reduction-target.html][https://www.caa.co.uk/Data-and-analysis/UK-aviation-market/Airlines/Datasets/]</small>|| || [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}|| [[Jet2.com]]<!--FY data, ending on 31 March, used by the airline should NOT be referenced here.-->
|17.72 || 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 || <small>[https://www.statista.com/statistics/309376/jet2coms-uk-passenger-numbers/][http://www.caa.co.uk/uploadedFiles/CAA/Content/Standard_Content/Data_and_analysis/Datasets/Airline_data/2018/Annual_data_2018/Table_0_1_7_1_All_Scheduled_Services_2018.pdf][https://www.caa.co.uk/Data-and-analysis/UK-aviation-market/Airlines/Datasets/]</small> || || [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Greece}}|| [[Aegean Airlines]]{{efn|name=Aegean Airlines}}
|16.33
| 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 || <small>[https://en.about.aegeanair.com/media-center/press-releases/2025/aegean-passengers-the-first-two-months-of-2025/]</small> <small>[https://en.about.aegeanair.com/media-center/press-releases/2019/first-quarter-2019-trading-update//]</small> || [[Star Alliance]] || [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Portugal}}|| [[TAP Air Portugal]]{{efn|name=TAP Air Portugal}}
|16.1
|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 || <small>[http://www.presstur.com/empresas---negocios/aviacao/tap-cresce-157--em-abril//]</small> || [[Star Alliance]] || [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Italy}}|| [[ITA Airways]]
| 18
| 15 || 10.1 || 1.32 ||colspan=15 align="center"|—
| 95 || 70 || <small>[https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/ita-airways/ita-airways-carried-18-million-passengers-in-2024/]</small> || || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Russia}}|| [[S7 Airlines]]{{efn|name=S7 Airlines}}
|12.9
| 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 || <small>[https://www.rusaviainsider.com/s7-airlines-stays-in-top-3-despite-gtf-challenges/][https://www.s7.ru/home/about/news/s7-airlines-increased-passenger-transportation-by-12]</small> || <s>[[oneworld]]</s> || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Turkey}}|| [[SunExpress]]
|15
| 12.6 || 10.7 || || || || || || || 8.7 || 7.3 || 6.7 || 7.7 || 7.7 || 6.7 || 5.6 || 4.2 || 3.0 || 2.7
| 68 || 92 ||  || || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Spain}}|| [[Air Europa]]
|12
|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 || <small>[https://www.preferente.com/noticias-turismo/air-europa][https://www.globalia.com/en/financiero/FIN_12-06-2019_10:21:55:13933474.pdf][https://www.aireuropa.com/dam/aea/contenidos/informacion-para-volar/documentacion/Informe-Air-Europa-cuentas-anuales.pdf][https://newsroom.aviator.aero/air-europa-increased-its-business-turnover-in-2023-to-over-eu2-75-billion-and-recorded-an-ebitda-of-more-than-eu205-million/]</small> || [[SkyTeam]] || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Finland}}|| [[Finnair]]
|11.66 || 10.98 || 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 || <small>[https://company.finnair.com/en/media-centre/all-releases][http://www.aviation24.be/airlines/finnair/finnair-traffic-performance-january-2018-15-6-percent/]</small> || [[oneworld]] || [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Spain}}|| [[Volotea]]
|11.4 ||10.4 || 9.4|| 6.0|| 3.8 || 7.6|| 6.57|| 4.82|| 4.3|| 2.5 || 1.8 || 1.4 || ||colspan=6 align="center"|—
| 23 || 60 || <small>[https://www.volotea.com/en/press-room/][https://web.archive.org/web/20150501080456/http://www.elfaa.com/ELFAA_Statistics_December_2014.pdf]</small>|| || [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Poland}}|| [[LOT Polish Airlines]]{{efn|name=LOT Polish Airlines}}
|10.7
| 10.03|| 9.3 || 4.2 || 3.59 || 11.79 || 10.61 || 8.5 || 6.89 || 5.58 || 6.1 || 5.9 || 6.3 || 5.8 || 5.5 || 5.0 || 4.0 || 4.3 || 3.71
| 91 || 120 || <small>[http://www.ulc.gov.pl/_download/regulacja_rynku/statystyki/2018/4-kw-2018/wg_przew_regularne_kw42018.pdf][http://www.ulc.gov.pl/_download/regulacja_rynku/statystyki/2018/4-kw-2018/wg_przew_czarter_kw42018.pdf][https://ulc.gov.pl/en/market-regulation/statictics-and-analysis-of-air-transport-market/3975-statistics-by-carriers]</small> || [[Star Alliance]] || [[Airlines International Representation in Europe|AIRE]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Russia}}|| [[Ural Airlines]]
|9.52
|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 || <small>[https://www.uralairlines.ru/good-info/news-and-press-releases/uralskie-avialinii-podveli-itogi-yubileynogo-2018-goda/][https://www.aviastat.ru/label/%D0%A3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5+%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8]</small>|| || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Kazakhstan}}|| [[Air Astana]]{{efn|name=Astana}}
|
| 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 || <small>[https://ir.airastana.com/en/disclosure-center/annual-reports/]</small>|| || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Germany}}|| [[Condor (airline)|Condor]]
|
| 8 || 7.0 || || || 9.4 ||colspan="13" style="background:#e6e6ff" align="center"| ''Part of [[Thomas Cook Group Airlines]]''
| || || || || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|Latvia}}||[[AirBaltic]]
|8.3
|7.03 || 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 || 50 || 60
||<small>[https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/airbaltic/airbaltic-breaks-records-with-8-3-million-passengers-in-2024/][https://www.airbaltic.com/en/airbaltic-serves-record-4.1-million-passengers-in-2018]</small>|| ||[[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Czech Republic}}<br>{{flag|Hungary}}<br>{{flag|Poland}}<br>{{flag|Slovakia}}|| [[Smartwings]]{{efn|name=Smartwings}}
|8.3
| || 5.2 || 2.53 || 1.8 || 9.6 || 8.8 || 8.17 || 7.3 || || 6.57 || - || - || - || - ||colspan=2 style="background:#e6e6ff" align="center"| ''Part of Icelandair Group'' || - || -
| 57 || ? || <small>[https://www.smartwings.com/en/smartwings-aircraft-carried-8-3-million-passengers-last-year][https://www.smartwings.com/en/news-releases/][http://zdopravy.cz/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CSA_%C4%8D%C3%ADsla.jpg][http://zdopravy.cz/travel-service-loni-prepravil-55-milionu-lidi-o-petinu-vice-nez-v-roce-2016-6835/]</small> || [[SkyTeam]] || [[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Russia}}|| [[UTair Aviation]]
|6.40 ||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<!-- 3.225 mil -->|| 2.93<!-- 2.925 mil -->|| 2.42
| 66 || 117 || <small>[https://www.rusaviainsider.com/russias-utair-saw-it-traffic-grow-by-5-8-in-2024/][https://favt.gov.ru/novosti-novosti/]</small> || || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}||[[Virgin Atlantic]]
|5.6
|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 ||<small>[https://www.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/media-centre/annual-reports.html][https://www.caa.co.uk/Data-and-analysis/UK-aviation-market/Airlines/Datasets/]</small>|| [[SkyTeam]]|| [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Uzbekistan}}|| [[Uzbekistan Airways]]<!--Note that per IATA they are European airlines-->
|6
|5.02|| 4.23 || 2.01 || 0.93 || 3.80|| 3.17|| 2.70|| 2.47|| 2.57|| 2.63<!-- 2.625 mil -->|| 2.68|| 2.65 || 2.32 || 2.16 || 1.89<!-- 1.885 mil --> || 2.07 || 1.99 || 1.71
| || || <small>[https://corp.uzairways.com/][https://www.uzdaily.uz/en/uzbekistan-airways-receives-an-airbus-a320neo-aircraft/]</small> || || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{Flag|Spain}}||[[Binter Canarias]]{{efn|name=Binter}}
|
|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
| || || <small>[https://www.bintercanarias.com/en/corporative/passengers]</small> || || [[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|Greece}}||[[Sky Express (Greece)|Sky Express]]
|5
|4.3 || 3.30 || 1.72 || || 1.20 || 1.00 || 0.50 || 0.17 || 0.07 || colspan="9" align="center" |— || 17 || 43
||<small>[https://publicity.businessportal.gr/company/77782327000]</small><br><small>[https://www.businessdaily.gr/sky-express]</small>|| || [[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]
|-
|{{flag|Iceland}}||[[Icelandair Group]]{{efn|name=Icelandair Group}}
|4.67 || 4.29 || 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
||<small>[https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/ICELANDAIR-GROUP-HF-30049590/news/Icelandair-Group-hf-Announces-Operating-Results-for-the-Month-of-December-2024-and-Full-Year-2024-48695430/][https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/01/06/2584212/0/en/Icelandair-Traffic-Data-December-2022.html#:~:text=Icelandair%20Group%20hf.,-Reykjavík%2C%20ICELAND&text=In%20December%202022%2C%20the%20number,increase%20of%20150%25%20between%20years.]</small>|| ||[[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|Serbia}}||[[Air Serbia]]
|4.44
|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
||<small>[https://www.traveldailynews.com/aviation/air-serbia-carries-4-44-million-passengers-in-2024/][https://www.airserbia.com/fr/footer_menu/corporate/news/news?id=831][https://www.airserbia.com/en/footer_menu/corporate/news/news?id=264][http://atwonline.com/sites/atwonline.com/files/ATW_FactsFigures_1211_0.pdf][https://www.airserbia.com/en/corporate/news/air-serbia-records-operational-growth-in-2016-as-network-expands-to-new-york]</small>|| style="white-space: nowrap;" | ||[[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Russia}}|| [[Nordwind Airlines]]<!--Connections with Ikar/Pegas Fly should be reviewed-->
|
| 4.3 || || 5.93 || 2.94 || 5.54<!--Airline claims 7.65, source would be need of a group result --> || 4.92 || 3.54 || 1.79 || 2.67 || 4.46 || 3.59 || 2.19 || 1.72 || 1.19 || 0.56 || 0.02 ||colspan="2" align="center" | — 
| 26 || 97 || <small>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150703130136/http://www.favt.ru/favt_new/?q=dejatelnost%2Fvozdushnye_perevozki%2Fperevozki_passazhirov]</small> || || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|Russia}}||[[Smartavia]]
|
| 3.80<!--3.795--> || 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 || colspan="4" style="background:#e6e6ff" align="center"| ''Part of Aeroflot Group'' || 15 || 67
||<small>[https://www.favt.ru/dejatelnost-vozdushnye-perevozki-perevozki-passazhirov/]</small>|| || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{Flag|Norway}} ||[[Widerøe]]<!-- Note: Likely to be acquired by Norwegian-->
|3.80 ||3.43 || 3.28 ||2.45 ||1.77 ||3.00 || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || <small>[https://www.wideroe.no//about-wideroe/media#/embedded/pressroom/][https://avitrader.com/2025/01/07/norwegian-and-wideroe-post-strong-passenger-numbers-for-december/]</small> || || [[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|Poland}}||[[Enter Air]]
|
| 3.1|| 2.2|| 1.72<!--1.715-->|| || || 1.12 || 1.17|| 1.11 || 1.17 || - || - || - || - || - || 1.2 || colspan="3" align="center" | — || 19 || 74
|| {{small|[https://www.pasazer.com/tag/enter+air]}}|| ||
|-
|{{flag|Azerbaijan}}||[[Azerbaijan Airlines]]
|
| 2.9 || 2.25 || 0.87 || 0.57 || 2.60 || 1.89 || 2.29 || || || || || || 1.4 || 1.0 || || || || || 32 || 57
||<small>[http://www.thebusinessyear.com/publication/article/4/830/azerbaijan-2012/up-up-and-away][https://www.azernews.az/tags/2383/]</small>|| || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|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
|| <small>[https://flyredwings.com/press/news/][https://favt.gov.ru/novosti-novosti/]</small>|| ||
|-
|{{flag|Luxembourg}}||[[Luxair]]{{efn|name=Luxair}}
|
|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
||<small>[https://www.luxairgroup.lu/about/facts&figures][https://www.luxairgroup.lu/sites/default/files/2019-05/LuxairGroup%20Annual%20Report%202018%20WEB.pdf]</small>|| ||[[Airlines for Europe|A4E]]<br>[[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|Ukraine}}<br>{{flag|Malta}}||[[SkyUp]]{{efn|name=SkyUp}}
| 2.5 || 1.55 || 1.08 || 2.57 || 1.25 || 1.71|| 0.44|| colspan="12" align="center" |— || 14 || 64 ||<small>[https://www.avianews.com/ukraine/2020/01/31/skyup_2019_statistics/]<br>[https://skyup.aero/en/about]</small>|| ||
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Portugal}}|| [[SATA Group]]{{efn|name=Azores}}
|
| 2.4 || 1.92 || 1.28 || 0.67|| 1.71|| 0.89|| 0.99|| 0.86|| || || || || || || || || || 
| || ||{{small|[https://sataholding.pt/en/corporate-reports]}} || || [[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|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
||<small>[https://static.skyteam.com//contentapi/globalassets/about-us/pdf/skyteam_factsheet_summer2017.pdf?_ga=2.151946224.832234210.1499078591-1823304378.1483959553]</small><small>[https://boardingpass.ro/werner-wilhelm-wolff-confirma-finalul-mandatului-sau-in-functia-de-director-general-al-tarom/]</small>||[[SkyTeam]]|| [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|Russia}}||[[Azimuth (airline)|Azimuth]]
|
| 2.3 || 1.9 || 2.09 || 1.22 || 1.25 || 0.67|| 0.07|| colspan="11" align="center" | — || 11 || 31 || <small>[https://azimuth.ru/ru/news/][https://favt.gov.ru/novosti-novosti/]</small>|| ||
|-
|{{flag|Russia}}||[[Azur Air]]
|2.3 || 1.9 || 2.1 || 3.73 || 1.93 || 5.79 || 4.24 || 3.75 || 2.34 || 2.35 || 0.21 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 27 || || <small>[https://www.azurair.ru/ru/azurair/news][https://www.interfax-russia.ru/tourism/news/azur-air-vedet-peregovory-po-vykupu-samoletov-boeing][https://favt.gov.ru/novosti-novosti/]</small>|| ||
|-
|{{flag|Belarus}}||[[Belavia]]
|
| || 1.6 || || || 4.00 || 3.39 || 3.0 || 2.49|| 2.09<!-- 2.085 mil -->|| 1.97|| 1.6 || 1.3 || 1.0 || || 0.7 || || || || 29 || 48
||<small>[https://en.belavia.by/news/3821652/]</small><br><small>[https://www.rusaviainsider.com/tag/belavia/]</small>|| || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|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
||<small>[https://eho.zse.hr/fileadmin/issuers/CRAL/FI-CRAL-063589b97568c73ef986b1fe7d46ab6d.pdf][https://www.zse.hr/userdocsimages/financ/CRAL-fin2019-1H-NotREV-K-HR.pdf][http://www.croatiaairlines.com/ResourceManager/FileDownload.aspx?rId=3155&rType=2][https://www.croatiaairlines.com/hr/O-nama/Mediji/press/2577/Croatia-Airlines-u-2018-godini-prevezao-rekordan-broj-putnika]</small>||[[Star Alliance]]||[[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Moldova}}<br>{{flag|Romania}}|| [[HiSky]]
|
| 1.6 || 0.8|| 0.1 ||colspan=15 align="center"|—
|  ||  || <small>[https://www.statista.com/statistics/1482075/romania-number-of-passengers-transported-by-hisky/][https://hisky.aero/en/news]</small> ||  || 
|-
|{{flag|Malta}}||[[Air Malta]]
|
| || || || || || 1.7|| 1.5|| 1.60|| 1.73 || 1.74 || 1.76 || 1.66 || 1.68 || 1.68 || 1.64 || 1.74 || 1.63 || 1.61 || 8 || 37||<small>[http://www.airmalta.com/information/about/news-overview/news-detail/Air-Malta-Continues-Its-Steady-Path-To-Financial-Recovery][https://www.airmalta.com/information/about/news-overview/news-detail/006-2019]</small>|| || [[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]<br>[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Iceland}}|| [[Play (airline)|PLAY]]
| 1.65 || 1.52 || 0.79 || 0.10 || colspan="15" align="center" |—
| 10 || 41 ||<small>[https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/FLY-PLAY-HF-124598714/news/][https://www.flyplay.com/en/financial-reports-and-presentations]</small> || ||
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Norway}}|| [[Norse Atlantic Airways]]
| 1.5
| 0.98 || 0.30 ||  ||colspan=15 align="center"|—
| 12 || 11 || {{small|[https://mb.cision.com/Main/21212/3960632/2727976.pdf]}} || || 
|-
| style="white-space: nowrap;" |{{flag|Russia}}|| [[Aurora (airline)|Aurora Group]]{{efn|name=Aurora}}
|
| 1.35 || 1.16 || 1.07 || colspan="8" style="background:#e6e6ff" align="center"| ''Part of Aeroflot Group'' ||colspan="7" align="center"|—
|  ||  ||<small>[https://www.flyaurora.ru/information/about/press-service/news/][https://erdc.ru/news/vstrechaem-den-grazhdanskoy-aviatsii-uspekhami-aviakompaniya-avrora-v-2023-godu-uvelichila-passazhir/]</small> || ||
|-
|{{flag|Russia}}||[[NordStar]]
|
|1.26<!--1.255--> ||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 || - || colspan="3" align="center" | — || 15 || 50
|| <small>[https://favt.gov.ru/novosti-novosti/]<br>[https://www.aviastat.ru/label/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80+%28NordStar%29]</small>|| ||[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}||[[Loganair]]
|1.36
| 1.23|| 1.29|| 0.73 || 0.35 || 0.95 || 0.76 || 0.77|| 0.75|| -|| - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -|| - || 34 || 44
|| <small>[https://www.caa.co.uk/data-and-analysis/uk-aviation-market/airlines/uk-airline-data/] </small>|| ||[[European Regions Airline Association|ERA]]
|-
|{{flag|Russia}}||[[Yamal Airlines]]
|<!-- 1 million-th in mid-October--> || ||<!-- 1 million-th in November-->|| 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
|| <small>[https://favt.gov.ru/novosti-novosti/]</small>|| ||
|-
|{{flag|Russia}}||[[IrAero]]
|
| 1.14 || 0.98 || 0.93 || 0.95 || || || || || 0.27 || 0.27 || || || || || || || || || || 
|| <small>[https://www.interfax-russia.ru/tourism/tag/32][https://favt.gov.ru/novosti-novosti/]</small>|| ||
|-
|{{flag|Russia}}||[[Ikar (airline)|Ikar]]<!--Former Pegas Fly-->
|
| 1.1 || || 1.72 || 0.76 || 2.16 || 2.02 || 1.38 || 0.99 || 1.08 || 1.24 || 0.28 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 10 || 29
|| <small>[https://favt.gov.ru/novosti-novosti/]</small>|| ||
|-
|{{flag|Russia}}||[[I-Fly]]
|
| || || || || || 1.13 || 0.75 || 0.4 || 0.61 || 0.97 || 1.05 || 0.63 || 0.41 || 0.38 || - || - || - || - || 10 || 30
||<small>[https://www.favt.ru/dejatelnost-vozdushnye-perevozki-perevozki-passazhirov/]</small>|| ||
|-
|{{flag|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
||<small>[https://www.chimimport.bg/bg/sektori/transporten/vyzdushen/bylgari-ja-er][https://www.air.bg/bg/za-bylgarija-er/medija]</small>|| || [[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|-
|{{flag|Ukraine}}||[[Windrose Airlines|Windrose]]
|
| || || || || 1.44 || 1.30|| || || || || || || || || || || || || 12 || 19 ||<small>[https://www.avianews.com/ukraine/2020/01/28/windrose_statistics_2019/]</small>|| ||
|-
|{{flag|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 ||{{small|[https://www.avianews.com/ukraine/2018/01/23_mau_2017.shtml]<br>[https://cfts.org.ua/news/2019/01/15/mau_ozvuchila_passazhiropotok_za_2018_god_51204]<br>[https://www.flyuia.com/il/ru/news/2022/mau-zvituye-pro-rezultaty-roboty-za-2021-rik]}}|| ||[[International Air Transport Association|IATA]]
|}

==Notes==
{{notelist|refs=
{{efn|name=Ryanair|Includes [[Lauda Europe]], [[Ryanair UK]], [[Malta Air]] and [[Buzz (Ryanair)|Buzz]].}}
{{efn|name=Lufthansa|Includes [[Lufthansa]] (inc. [[Lufthansa Regional]] (inc. [[Lufthansa CityLine]] and [[Air Dolomiti]])), [[Eurowings]], [[Swiss International Air Lines]] (inc. [[Edelweiss Air]]), [[Austrian Airlines]] and [[Brussels Airlines]].}}
{{efn|name=Air France-KLM|Includes [[Air France]] (inc. [[Air France Hop]] and [[Transavia France]]) and [[KLM]] (inc. [[KLM cityhopper]], and [[Transavia]]).}}
{{efn|name=International Airlines Group|Includes [[British Airways]] (inc. [[BA CityFlyer]]), [[Iberia (airline)|Iberia]] (inc. [[Air Nostrum]] and [[Iberia Express]]), [[Vueling Airlines]], [[Level (airline)|Level]] and [[Aer Lingus]] (inc. [[Aer Lingus Regional]]).}}
{{efn|name=Aeroflot Group|Includes [[Rossiya Airlines]] and [[Pobeda (airline)|Pobeda]].}}
{{efn|name=Turkish Airlines|Includes [[AnadoluJet]].}}
{{efn|name=EasyJet|Includes [[EasyJet UK]], [[EasyJet Switzerland]], and [[EasyJet Europe]].}}
{{efn|name=S7 Airlines|Includes Citrus.}}
{{efn|name=Wizz Air|Includes [[Wizz Air UK]], [[Wizz Air Abu Dhabi]] and [[Wizz Air Malta]].}}
{{efn|name=Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA|Includes [[Norwegian Air Norway]] and [[Norwegian Air Sweden]].}}
{{efn|name=Aegean Airlines|Includes [[Olympic Air]].}}
{{efn|name=TAP Air Portugal|Includes [[TAP Express]].}}
{{efn|name=LOT Polish Airlines|Includes [[LOT Charters]].}}
{{efn|name=SAS Group|Includes [[Scandinavian Airlines]], [[Scandinavian Airlines Ireland]] and [[SAS Link]].}}
{{efn|name=TUI Group|Includes [[TUI Airways]] <small>(formerly Thomson Airways)</small>, [[TUI fly Belgium]] <small>(Jetairfly)</small>, [[TUI fly Germany]] <small>(TUIfly)</small>, [[TUI fly Netherlands]] <small>(Arkefly)</small>, [[TUI fly Nordic]]}}
{{efn|name=Smartwings|Includes [[Czech Airlines]], [[SmartWings]], [[Smartwings Hungary]], [[Smartwings Poland]], [[Smartwings Slovakia]].}}
{{efn|name=Icelandair Group|Includes [[Icelandair]] and [[Air Iceland Connect]].}}
{{efn|name=Astana|Includes [[Air Astana]] and [[FlyArystan]].}}
{{efn|name=Luxair|Includes Luxair Luxembourg Airlines and LuxairTours.}}
{{efn|name=SkyUp|Includes SkyUp MT.}}
{{efn|name=Azores|Includes [[Azores Airlines]] and [[SATA Air Açores]]}}
{{efn|name=Binter|Includes [[Canarias Airlines]] and [[Naysa Servicios Aéreos]]}}
{{efn|name=Aurora|Includes [[Yakutia Airlines]], [[Khabarovsk Airlines]], [[Kamchatka Air Enterprise]], [[Chukotavia]], [[Polar Airlines]], Taiga Airlines/Aviashelf.}}
}}
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==See also==
* [[List of airlines of Europe]]
* [[World's largest airlines]]
* [[List of largest airlines in North America]]
* [[List of largest airlines in Central America & the Caribbean]]
* [[List of largest airlines in Africa]]
* [[List of largest airlines in Asia]]
* [[List of largest airlines in South America]]
* [[List of largest airlines in Oceania]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite news |url= https://centreforaviation.com/insights/analysis/europes-top-20-airline-groups-by-passengers-2017-lufthansa-wrests-top-spot-from-ryanair-394211 |date= 21 January 2018 |title= Europe's Top 20 airline groups by passengers 2017; Lufthansa wrests top spot from Ryanair |work= CAPA Centre for Aviation}}
* {{cite news | title=Europe's top 20 airline groups by passengers 2023: Ryanair's lead is set to endure | work=CAPA Centre for Aviation | date=28 March 2024 | url=https://centreforaviation.com/analysis/reports/europes-top-20-airline-groups-by-pax-2023-ryanairs-lead-is-set-to-endure-680118}}

{{Aviation statistics}}

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[[Category:Lists of airlines of Europe| Largest]]
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