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. The list excludes companies headquartered on the Asian side of Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan.

By passengers carried (millions, 2024 latest available figures)

Rank	Country	Airline / holding	'25	'24	'23	'22	'21	'20	'19	'18	'17	'16	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	Passenger fleet	Current destinations	Sources	Alliance
1	China	China Southern Airlines		164.7	142.2	62.6	98.5	96.9	151.6	139.8	126.2	114.6	109.4	100.9	91.8	86.5	80.7	76.4	629	216	[1][2][3]	—
2	China	Air China[a]		155.3	128.4	38.6	69.0	68.7	115.0	109.7	101.5	96.5	89.8	83.0	77.7	72.4	69.4	60.0	456	201	[4][5]	Star Alliance
3	China	China Eastern Airlines[b]		140.6	115.6	42.5	79.0	74.5	130.0	121.1	110.8	101.7	93.8	83.8	79.1	73.1	68.7	64.9	588	248	[6][7][8]	SkyTeam
4	India	IndiGo		114.1	103.5	76.7	48.4	35.0	84.7	61.9	49.2	41.0	29.7	22.8	19.3	15.8	12	8.5	342	122	[9][10][11][12]	—
5	India	Air India Limited[c]		63.9	54.5	22.1	14.1	11.3	30.4	28.3	26.4	23.5	18.0	16.7	17.3	16.0	-	15.0	122	102	[10]	Star Alliance
6	Malaysia	Air Asia Group[d]		63.2	57.0	34.2	7.7	22.8	83.5	73.0	63.3	60.1	54.8	48.8	45.2	34.1	29.9	25.7	255	165	[13][14]	—
7	Qatar	Qatar Airways[e]		55.3	40.0	31.6	18.6	5.8	32.4	29.5	29.2	32.0	30.0	26.7	22.4	18.0	17.0	16.0	253	198	[15][16]	Oneworld
8	China	Hainan Airlines[f]		54.6	-	21.1	41.3	37.0	81.7	79.9	71.7	46.3	38.6	35.6	26.3	22.6	20.5	18.6	221	110	[17][18]	—
9	United Arab Emirates	Emirates[e]		51.9	43.6	19.6	6.6	56.2	58.6	58.5	56.1	51.9	49.3	44.5	39.4	34.0	31.4	27.4	252	157	[19][20][21]	—
10	Japan	Japan Airlines[g]		43.7	40.7	30.1	16.2	8.5 (Apr)	44.6	43.6	42.3	40.6	39.9	39.1	38.6	37.6	35.4	44.7	156	92	[citation needed]	Oneworld
11	China	Xiamen Air		43.1	36.4	18.1
12	Singapore	Singapore Airlines[22][h]		39	34.7	20.7	2.2	7.0	38.1	35.5	32.4	33.7	22.5	22.2	18.7	18.1	16.9	16.6	157	137	[23][24]	Star Alliance
13	Japan	All Nippon Airways[i]		35.5	42.7	29.2	18.8	13.1	50.7	49.8	49.2	47.3	50.8	50.4	49.0	47.4	44.9	45.7	225	97	[25]	Star Alliance
14	Saudi Arabia	Saudia		35	30.3	31.9	-	-	36.9	-	32.2	30.0	27.9	14.8	11.5	10.3	8.4	-	157	140	[26][27]	SkyTeam
15	Vietnam	VietJet Air		25.9	25.3	20.6	5.4	12.1	23.7	23.1	17.1	14.1	9.3	-	-	-	-	-	77	115	[28]	—
16	Philippines	Cebu Pacific[j]		24.5	20.9	14.9	3.4	5.0	22.5	20.3	19.7	19.1	18.4	16.9	14.4	12.3	10.5	9.6	52	62	[29][30][31][32][33][34][35]	Value Alliance
17	Indonesia	Garuda Indonesia[k]		23.7	20.0	14.9	11.0	10.8	31.9	38.4	36.2	34.9	32.9	29.1	24.9	20.4	17.1	12.5	134	90	[36][37][38]	SkyTeam
18	South Korea	Korean Air[l]		23.5	-	-	5.7	7.5	27.0	-	26.8	26.8	24.9	23.3	23.6	24.0	23.3	22.9	159	121	[39]	SkyTeam
19	Hong Kong	Cathay Pacific[m]		22.8	18.0	2.8	0.7	4.6	35.2	35.4	34.8	34.3	34.0	31.5	29.9	29.0	27.6	26.8	159	88	[citation needed]	Oneworld
20	Vietnam	Vietnam Airlines[n]		22.7	24.1	20.7	7.1	16.4	29.1	28	27.2	25.3	21	15.7	15.0	14.0	-	-	103	64	[40][41]	SkyTeam
21	United Arab Emirates	Air Arabia[o]		18.8	16.7	12.8	5.0	3.0	15.0	13.0	12.0	11.5	10.8	9.0	8.5	8.0	7.6		77	180	[citation needed]	—
22	United Arab Emirates	Etihad Airways[e]		18.5	14.0	10.0	3.1	4.2	17.5	17.8	18.6	18.4	17.6	14.8	11.5	10.2	8.3	7.1	103	81	[42][43][44][45]	—
23	Malaysia	Malaysia Airlines[p]		16.6	14.5	9.9	1.7	3.9	-	-	14.0	20.7	15.0	16.0	17.2	13.4	13.3	13.1	77	79	[46]	Oneworld
24	Thailand	Thai Airways International[q]		16.1	13.6	9.0	1.6	5.9	24.5	24.3	24.6	22.3	21.2	19.1	21.5	20.6	18.4	18.2	79	65	[citation needed]	Star Alliance
25	Philippines	Philippine Airlines[r]		15.6	14.7	9.3	2.9	3.9	16.7	15.9	14.5	13.4	12.0	12.0	11.2	12.7	-	-	78	72	[47][48][49]	—
26	United Arab Emirates	Flydubai		15.4	13.8	10.6	5.6	3.2	9.6	11.0	10.9	10.4	9.0	7.3	6.9	5.1	-	-	88	127	[citation needed]	—
27	India	SpiceJet		7.6	10.2	12.4	9.0	8.0	24.3	19.2	17.3	14.3	11.7	12.6	11.7	9.5	8.6	6.6	118	53	[10]	—
28	India	Akasa Air		7.6	6.2	0.7													22	28	[citation needed]	—
29	India	Alliance Air		1.4	1.6	1.5	1.0	0.8	1.6	1.6	1.0	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	-	21	75	[citation needed]	—
29	Taiwan	EVA Airways[s]			11.2	2.2	0.3	2.3	12.8	12.5	12.1	11.2	10.0	8.9	8.0	7.5	6.6	6.4	87	62	[50][51]	Star Alliance
30	Taiwan	China Airlines[t]			9.5	1.5	0.2	2.4	15.6	15.6	15.1	14.7	14.7	14.1	12.8	11.4	-	11.3	84	102	[52][53]	SkyTeam
31	South Korea	Jeju Air			-	7.9	6.5	4.3	8.4	12.0	4.6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	39	41	[54]	Value Alliance
32	Kazakhstan	Air Astana[u]			8.0	7.4	5.6	3.6	5.1	4.3	4.2	3.8	-	-	3.7	3.3			29	58	[citation needed]	—
33	Oman	Oman Air			6.2	9.9	1.2	-	-	-	8.5	7.7	6.4	5.1	4.9	3.8	3.3		50	53	[citation needed]	Oneworld
34	Jordan	Royal Jordanian			5.6	3.0	1.6	0.8	3.3	3.3	3.1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	31	54	[citation needed]	Oneworld
35	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Airways			5.0	4.0	3.0	1.0	11.0	10.1	9.9	-	8.6	7.8	6.5	5.2	-	-	39	65	[55]	—
36	Thailand	Bangkok Airways			4.0	2.7	0.5	1.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.7	5.6	5.1	4.9				35	30	[citation needed]	—
37	Taiwan	Starlux Airlines			3.5	0.3													21	29	[citation needed]	—
38	Sri Lanka	SriLankan Airlines			3.5	1.5	0.2	5.3	5.7	5.8	4.4	4.3	4.3	4.2	4.3	3.8	3.3		23	37	[citation needed]	Oneworld
	Bangladesh	Biman Bangladesh Airlines		3.4	-	2.8	1.2	0.9	1.8	1.8	1.7								21	40	[citation needed]	—
-	Pakistan	Pakistan International Airlines			-	-	-	9.8	14.6	10.4	9.8	8.9	9.2	9.5	9.7	11.1	11.5	10.5	47	69	[citation needed]	—
-	Indonesia	Lion Air Group[v]			-	-	9.9 (Lion Air only)	-	-	56.3	51.8	40.8 (Lion & Batik only)	53.0	45.0	37.9	32.0	27.0	20.5	140	90	[46][56]	—
-	South Korea	Asiana Airlines[w]			-	-	-	-	-	23.5	17.2	18.4	-	17.3	16.3	15.0	14.7	13.9	83	90	[39][57]	Star Alliance

Notes

1. Includes figures for Shenzhen Airlines (including Kunming Airlines), Air Macau and Dalian Airlines.
2. Includes figures for Shanghai Airlines and China United Airlines.
3. Includes figures for Air India Express, AIX Connect, and Vistara.
4. Includes figures for Thai AirAsia, Indonesia AirAsia, Philippines AirAsia, AirAsia Cambodia, AirAsia X and Thai AirAsia X.
5. Based on fiscal year ending 31 March.
6. Includes figures for Chang An Airlines, China Xinhua Airlines and Shan Xi Airlines.
7. Includes figures for J-Air, JAL Express and ZIPAIR Tokyo.
8. Includes figures for Scoot and SilkAir.
9. Includes figures for Air Japan, ANA Wings and Peach Aviation.
10. Includes figures for Cebgo.
11. Includes figures for Citilink.
12. Includes figures for Jin Air.
13. Includes figures for Dragonair and HK Express.
14. Includes figures for Vietnam Air Services Company and Pacific Airlines.
15. Includes figures for Air Arabia Egypt, Air Arabia Maroc, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, Fly Arna, and Fly Jinnah.
16. Includes figures for Firefly and MASwings.
17. Includes figures for Thai Smile.
18. Includes figures for PAL Express.
19. Includes figures for Uni Air.
20. Includes figures for Mandarin Airlines.
21. Includes figures for FlyArystan.
22. Includes figures for Batik Air, Wings Air, Batik Air Malaysia and Thai Lion Air.
23. Includes figures for Air Busan and Air Seoul