Which is the largest airline in Europe? The largest airline fleet in Europe by passengers is Ryanair. The largest airline fleet in Europe belongs to the Lufthansa Group.
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Ryanair Group has the biggest low cost airline fleet in Europe by a considerable margin, with 514 aircraft at 21-Jun-2022, according to the CAPA Fleet Database. This is 190 more aircraft than Europe's number two LCC fleet, easyJet Group, which has 324 aircraft.
Italy's flag carrier, ITA Airways, is by far the largest Italian-based carrier in terms of aircraft operated. According to ch-aviation, ITA currently flies 73 aircraft. The backbone of ITA's fleet are short/medium-haul Airbus aircraft, as shown in the table below.
Ryanair Group was comfortably the number one airline group in Europe by passenger numbers in the 2022 calendar year. Its annual total of 160.4 million passengers was 58% more than second-placed Lufthansa Group's 101.8 million, which is a difference of almost 59 million passengers.
KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij) is recognised as the oldest airline in the world that continues to serve in its original name, Established in October 1919; the airline took its first flight in May 1920 between London and Amsterdam.
The big four US airlines - American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines - have by far the most capacity, accounting for 74% of US airline seats, a total of just under 73 million between them.