List of largest airlines in South America
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This is a list of largest airlines active in South America (beyond 100 thousand passengers/year). It is ranked by number of carried passengers.
By passengers carried (millions)
| Rank | Origin | Airline/ holding | '25 | '24 | '23 | '22 | '21 | '20 | '19 | '18 | '17 | '16 | '15 | '14 | '13 | '12 | '11 | '10 | '09 | '08 | '07 | Passenger fleet | Alliance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LATAM 1 | 87.41 | 82.00 | 73.89 | 62.46 | 40.19 | 28.30 | 74.18 | 68.80 | 67.1 | 66.9 | 67.8 | 67.8 | 66.7 | 65.0 | 60.3 | 51.8 | 45.8 | 43.4 | 38.9 | 380 | N/A | |
| 2 | Avianca Group 3 | 36.94 | 37.77 | 31.95 | 24.99 | 14.15 | 7.88 | 30.53 | 30.50 | 29.4 | 29.4 | 28.3 | 26.2 | 24.6 | 23.1 | 20.8 | 11.7 | 10.2 | 9.0 | 8.3 | 161 | Star Alliance | |
| 3 | Gol Transportes Aéreos 2 | 34.50 | 29.89 | 30.97 | 27.26 | 18.96 | 16.78 | 36.44 | 33.41 | 32.4 | 32.3 | 38.8 | 39.7 | 36.3 | 39.2 | 36.2 | 32.9 | 28.4 | 25.6 | 23.7 | 146 | N/A | |
| 4 | Azul Linhas Aereas 5 | 31.91 | 30.87 | 29.28 | 27.48 | 23.31 | 14.80 | 27.67 | 24.15 | 20.7 | 19.8 | 20.5 | 20.0 | 18.3 | 15.8 | 11.4 | 6.6 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 201 | N/A | |
| 5 | JetSMART 6 | 14.56 | 8.12 | 7.59 | 5.22 | 2.56 | 1.74 | 4.45 | 1.89 | 0.33 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 56 | N/A | |
| 6 | Aerolíneas Argentinas 4 | 13.08 | 13.05 | 13.85 | 11.45 | 4.83 | 3.10 | 13.33 | 13.03 | 12.83 | 11.25 | 10.44 | 9.22 | 8.28 | 6.80 | 6.12 | 6.34 | 5.33 | 5.49 | 6.33 | 81 | SkyTeam | |
| 7 | SKY Airline 8 | 8.27 | 8.82 | 8.46 | 7.12 | 3.65 | 2.64 | 5.77 | 4.20 | 3.81 | 3.22 | 2.94 | 2.74 | 2.46 | 1.92 | 1.54 | 1.18 | 0.93 | 0.81 | 0.67 | 36 | N/A | |
| 8 | Boliviana de Aviación | 4.38 | 5.06 | 4.73 | 4.30 | 3.29 | 1.80 | 3.67 | 3.64 | 3.22 | 2.95 | 2.49 | 1.9 | 1.66 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | N/A | |
| 9 | Wingo 10 | 3.65 | 3.11 | 2.83 | 2.08 | 1.43 | 0.74 | 2.40 | 2.39 | 2.13 | 1.95 | 1.96 | 2.22 | 2.70 | 2.86 | 2.84 | 2.86 | 2.50 | 2.16 | 2.27 | 10 | N/A | |
| 10 | Flybondi | 3.57 | 3.88 | 4.00 | 2.36 | 0.89 | 0.33 | 1.51 | 0.76 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | N/A | |
| 11 | Clic Air | 1.64 | 1.77 | 1.82 | 1.92 | 1.42 | 0.73 | 2.00 | 1.21 | 0.99 | 0.96 | 0.93 | 0.79 | 0.74 | 0.63 | 0.53 | 0.36 | 0.28 | 0.18 | 0.01 | 21 | N/A | |
| 12 | SATENA | 1.48 | 1.27 | 1.21 | 1.04 | 0.89 | 0.41 | 1.14 | 1.12 | 1.03 | 0.98 | 1.01 | 0.93 | 0.79 | 0.75 | 0.82 | 0.98 | 0.96 | 1.01 | 1.04 | 21 | N/A | |
| 13 | Star Perú | 1.11 | 1.00 | 0.90 | 0.89 | 0.55 | 0.29 | 0.42 | 0.32 | 0.37 | 0.49 | 0.59 | 0.62 | 0.62 | 0.78 | 0.84 | 0.66 | 0.50 | 0.53 | 0.53 | 8 | N/A | |
| 14 | Ecojet | 0.28 | 0.34 | 0.39 | 0.25 | 0.27 | 0.14 | 0.46 | 0.41 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | N/A | |
| 15 | Andes | 0.23 | 0.21 | 0.15 | 0.03 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | N/A | ||||||||||||||
| 16 | Atsa | 0.19 | 0.18 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 6 | N/A | |
See also
Notes
- ^1 Includes LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines.
- ^2 Includes Gol Transportes Aéreos and Varig.
- ^3 Includes Avianca Colombia, Avianca Peru, Avianca El Salvador, Avianca Costa Rica, Avianca Ecuador, Avianca Nicaragua, Avianca Honduras and Avianca Guatemala.
- ^4 Includes Austral Líneas Aéreas.
- ^5 Includes TRIP Linhas Aéreas.
- ^6 Includes JetSmart Argentina and Norwegian Air Argentina.
- ^7 Includes VivaAir Colombia and Viva Air Peru.
- ^8 Includes Sky Airline Peru
- ^9 Includes MAP Linhas Aéreas
- ^10 Includes Aerorepública and Copa Airlines Colombia (subsidiary of Copa Airlines)
Information was updated on July, 2026.
Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay have no airline relevant to the South America market. Venezuela's information is not available
References
Sources
Countries (every airline not listed below) Argentina (ANAC), Brazil (ANAC), Bolivia (DGAC), Chile (JAC), Colombia (Aeronáutica Civil), Ecuador (DGAC), Paraguay (DINAC), Peru (MTC), Uruguay (DINACIA)
Airlines Avianca Holdings LATAM Group Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes Azul Linhas Aéreas
Further reading
- Vidal Olivares J.-Piglia M., Historia de la avicion comercial en America Latina (in Spanish language), Editorial Unimagdalena, 2022