Top airlines of the world

Reuters - Here is the International Air Transport Association’s latest ranking of the world’s airlines in terms of passenger kilometres and freight tonne kilometres.

PASSENGERS

Here is a list of top 15 airlines based on Scheduled Passenger-Kilometres Flown for the year 2010:

Rank Airline Millions

1. Delta Air Lines 266,990

2. American Airlines 201,881

3. United Airlines 164,662

4 Emirates 143,660

5. Lufthansa 129,671

6. Continental Airlines 128,141

7. Southwest Airlines 125,581

8. Air France** 125,173

9. China Southern Airlines 110,545

10. British Airways 105,554

11. Qantas 99,912

12. US Airways 94,867

13. Cathay Pacific Airways 87,332

14. Air China 85,485

15. Singapore Airlines 84,911



FREIGHT

Top 15 IATA airlines based on Scheduled Freight Tonne-Kilometres for the year 2010:

RANK Airline Millions

1. Federal Express 15,743

2. UPS Airlines 10,194

3. Cathay Pacific 9,587

4. Korean Air 9,542

5. Emirates 7,913

6. Lufthansa 7,428

7. Singapore Airlines 7,001

8. China Airlines 6,410

9. EVA Air 5,166

10. Cargolux 4,901

11. Air France** 4,739

12. British Airways 4,499

13. Air China 4,224

14. KLM** 3,698

15. Asiana Airlines 3,400

** Air France and KLM merged in 2004 but operate separate networks: add numbers to reach total operated by the group. Note: A passenger kilometre is a unit to measure traffic by multiplying the number of passengers by the number of kilometres each passenger is flown; a similar measure is used for cargo.

Source: IATA (www.iata.org)