The main airlines in the world for passenger transport can be classified by country. Depending on the routes they operate, we find regional, network and large-scale airlines. Here we offer you a list of the best international airlines.

Below you have an index with all the points that we are going to deal with in this article.

Spain Airlines

Air Nostrum

This airline is based in Valencia and operates as a franchise for the Iberia airline. Air Nostrum operates more than three hundred daily flights and has a fleet of more than sixty state-of-the-art aircraft. In addition, it offers flights to destinations that are within Africa and Europe.



Air Europa

It offers more than two hundred daily flights and has bases at the airports of Gran Canaria, Asturias, Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona. Among its frequent routes are those to Gran Canaria and Tenerife, both north and south.

Iberia

This Spanish airline was founded in 1927 and currently leads the routes that link Europe with South America. Its base is located at the Madrid-Barajas and offers flights to more than one hundred destinations in forty countries. Although it is not a low cost airline, your frequent passengers can regularly access promotions and discounts on the purchase of tickets.

Germany Airlines

Lufthansa

This company is considered one of the safest in the world and is based in Cologne. It has more than five hundred aircraft and, together with Thai Airways International and United Airlines, is a founding member of the airline alliance Star Alliance.

Air Berlin

After Lufthansa, Air Berlin It is the second largest airline in Germany and one of the largest in Europe. Its main airport is Berlin-Tegel Airport, Berlin (Germany).

It makes routes to mainly tourist destinations in the Mediterranean, which also include the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, and also to North America, the Caribbean and Asia, among other international destinations.

Eurowings

This airline belongs to the Lufthansa company and is based at Düsseldorf Airport, in Dusseldorf (Germany). This airline was founded in 1993 in Dortmund and later signed some agreements with AirFrance and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to link some German airports with other German airports. Paris and Amsterdam. Currently, Eurowings operates national and international routes for the low-cost company Germanwings.

United Kingdom Airlines

British Airways

This airline is one of the largest in the world and number one in number of flight offers between North America and Europe. British Airways is also the UK's largest airline with routes to Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, South America and the Caribbean.

Regional BMI

This regional airline of British origin is based in Aberdeen, Scotland. It operates domestic passenger flights and its main base is Aberdeen Airport.

Given that it has a type A operating license, BMI Regional also carries out cargo and mail transportation. This company was founded in 1987 under the name Business Air and changed its name to what it currently maintains in 2001. Currently, it is owned by the German Lufthansa.

Cayman Airways

It is a British airline based in the Cayman Islands (Jamaica), which are currently British territory. Its headquarters are at Owen Roberts International Airport, located in the Cayman Islands.

This airline has been operating since 1968 and also operates flights for cargo transportation. Among its destinations are: Colombia, Cuba, USA, Honduras, Panama and Guatemala. It also operates domestic flights within the Cayman Islands and Jamaica themselves.

Eastern Airways

Based at Humberside Airport, England, this airline operates regular domestic flights but also some low cost flights private. Eastern Airwyas began its activity in 1997.

Its international destinations are France (Angers) and Norway (Bergen, Oslo and Stavanger).

Within the UK, this airline operates flights to Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Kingston upon Hull, Leeds / Bradford, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Southampton, Teesside, Aberdeen, Stornoway, Wick and Cardiff.

Loganair

This airline is based at Glasgow International Airport and is owned by British Airways. It started its activity in 1962 and operates regular flights nationwide to Scotland (Aberdeen, Barra, Campbeltown, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Islay, Kirkwall, Sumburgh, Stornoway, Tiree and Wick, among others), Northern Ireland (Derry / Londonderry ), England (Manchester) and the Isle of Man. Their international flights only reach Dublin and Cork, both destinations located in Ireland.

France Airlines

Air France

Since its founding in 1933, Air France has carried billions of passengers within its routes in more than three hundred cities and within 85 countries. Together with airlines such as Alitalia and Aeroméxico, it is part of the alliance Sky team.

Corsairfly

This airline is considered the second largest French airline after Air France. It is based at the Paris-Orly. Its destinations include: Antigua, Canada (Montreal), USA (Miami), Guadeloupe (Pointe a Pitre), Reunion Island (Saint Denis), Martinique (Fort de France), Madagascar (Antananarivo), Mauritius (Port Louis), Mayotte (Dzaoudzi), Saint Lucia, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Martin, Senegal (Dakar) and Tunisia.

Aigle Azur

This company, whose full name is Aigle Azur, Société Transports Aériens, is based at Paris-Orly Airport (ORY). Its foundation took place in 1946 and since the 1950s it operated international flights thanks to which it connected France with Africa and Asia.

Currently, its destinations outside of Europe include Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Morocco and Tunisia. Within Europe, it operates flights within France (Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Mulhouse, Paris and Toulouse) and to Spain (Malaga) and Portugal (Funchal, Porto and Lisbon).

Other European airlines

Austrian Airlines

Since its foundation in 1957, Austrian Airlines has been the flag carrier of Austria. Headquartered at Vienna International Airport, Austrian Airlines is a low-cost airline that offers routes to Asia and Australia.

Brussels Airlines

Airline originating in Belgium that has its main base at Brussels Airport. Brussels Airlines has two types of services on flights to Europe: B-flex, business class with full services; and B-light, a class with low-cost flights that only includes basic food.

SAS

Scandinavian Airlines System began operations in August 1946 and is currently a multinational operating in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Most of its flight offers are destined for countries in North America, Europe and Asia.

Swiss International Airlines

Founded in 2001, Swiss is the largest Swiss airline. Swiss offers routes to different countries in North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia.

Tap Air Portugal

Transportes Aéreos Portugueses is the leading airline in Portugal. Most of its flight offers are related to destinations in Africa, Europe and South America.

transavia.com

Founded in 1966, Transavia is a French-Dutch airline characterized by offering low-cost flights to holiday destinations in Italy, the Canary Islands, Catalonia and Greece. Transavia is part of Air France-KLM.



KLM

This airline was founded in 1919 and is currently the main airline in the Netherlands. KLM offers flights to more than 130 cities around the world and has business and economy class on all its flights.

Latin American Airlines

Aerolíneas Argentinas

Commonly known as Airlines, is the main airline in Argentina and one of the largest airlines in all of Latin America. It covers a wide range of destinations within Argentina departing from the Buenos Aires airport, among which are:

  • Catamarca
  • Cordova
  • Esquel
  • Formosa
  • Iguazu
  • The Rioja
  • Mar del Plata man
  • Mendoza
  • Rio Grande
  • Rosary
  • Salta
  • San Juan
  • Santa Fe
  • Tucuman
  • Viedma

Within America, this company operates flights to the US, Mexico, Cuba, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and Ecuador, among others. It also offers two European destinations: Spain (Barcelona y Madrid) and Italy (Roma).

Aeromexico

The most important airline in Mexico that, together with its subsidiaries Aeroméxico Connect and Aeromexico Travel, has almost one hundred aircraft. It offers the Club Premier frequent flyer program and regular flights to Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the United States, Peru, and others.

LATAM Airlines Group

This is the name that has been given to the commercial aviation consortium that emerged from the union between the Chilean company LAN Airlines and the Brazilian company TAM Lineas Aereas. LATAM is currently the largest airline in all of Latin America and is ranked ten worldwide.

It is based in Las Condes, Santiago (Chile). This airline currently has a large number of destinations, among which are: United States, Mexico, Aruba, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.

LATAM also offers flights to Europe, with destinations such as Spain, Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom; and also to Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and French Polynesia).

Avianca

It is an airline of Colombian origin. It was the first founded in America and the second in the world. Founded in 1919, Avianca has the most modern aeronautical fleet in Latin America.

Its main airport is El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá (Colombia). Avianca has signed codeshare agreements with international airlines such as Aeroméxico, Iberia, Lufthansa, United Airlines and US Airways, among others.

Copa Airlines Colombia

It is the second most important company in Colombia after Avianca. It is based at the El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia. It covers both national and international destinations from this airport and other Colombian cities.

The company has operated since 1993. Among its destinations within Colombia, this airline flies to Barranquilla, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cúcuta, Medellín, Pereira, San Andrés Island and San José. Outside of Colombia, these are their destinations: Aruba, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.

Sky Airline

It is an airline that transports passengers and also cargo. This airline transports more than 100.000 passengers per month, thus leading the Chilean air market and 5% of the air Transport international. It began its activity in 2001 and operates international flights since 2008 to Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Brazil and Ecuador.

SATEN

The airline Air Service to National Territories (SATENA) It has been operating since 1962 and is of Colombian origin, based at the El Dorado International Airport. It is considered the second line with the highest level of occupation in the country. Currently, it operates domestic flights from Medellín to Bucaramanga, from Bucaramanga to Cúcuta, from Cúcuta to Ocaña and from Medellín to Cúcuta, with an average frequency of one flight per day.

United States Airlines

American Airlines

Known as AA, American Airlines is the world's largest airline based on annual revenue. American Airlines has a fleet of more than 600 aircraft and is based in the city of Fort Worth, Texas. Its routes cover the entire North American territory, the Caribbean, Canada, China, India, Japan, and Latin America.

United Airlines

This airline is the third largest in the United States and is headquartered in Chicago, United States. United Airlines has a fleet of more than 250 aircraft and has routes to more than two hundred destinations.

Delta Airlines

This airline has been Delta-Northwest Airlines since October 2008 and, until the time of its merger, was the fifth largest airline in the world with almost two thousand flights per day. All Delta-Northwest Airlines passengers have the WorldPerks frequent flyer program having the option of accumulating miles per trip or redeeming them for attractive rewards.

US Airways

It is headquartered in the city of Tempe, Arizona (USA) and is owned by the US Airways Group. It has three main airports: Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Philadelphia International Airport, Sky Harbor International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

It was founded in 1939 under the name All American Aviation Company, which later became USAir and finally changed it in 1996 to the one it owns today. It offers a wide range of destinations both in the US and in Latin America and Europe, including Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, the Baos, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

Other airlines

Qatar Airways

It is a state-owned company whose main airport is Hamad International Airport, Doha. Currently, it has a fleet of more than one hundred aircraft and operates routes to more than one hundred international destinations. It was founded in 1993 and has been a member of the Oneworld alliance since 2012. It offers services to a wide range of destinations:

  • Africa: Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, Mozambique, Nigeria, Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Rwanda, Tunisia, Tanzania and Uganda.
  • America: Canada, USA, Brazil and Argentina.
  • Asia: South Korea, China, Hong Kong and Japan.
  • Near East: Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, and North Yemen.
  • Southeast Asia: Burma, Philippines, Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
  • Middle East: Bandladés, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
  • Oceania: Australia.

Within Europe, it also offers routes to Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Norway, United Kingdom, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.

Cathay Pacific Airways

It is an Asian airline based in Hong Kong, China, which carries both passengers and cargo. Its main airport is Hong Kong International Airport. It operates routes to more than fifty destinations including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. It started its activity in 1946.

Singapore Airlines

It is the main airline in Asia and one of the most important in the world. It was founded in 1947 and its main center of operations is the Changi International Airport, in Singapore. It operates routes to Africa (North, East and South), America (North and South America), Asia (Middle, South and central Asia and the Far East), Europe and Oceania.

Emirates

Based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it is a subsidiary airline of The Emirates Group, wholly owned by the Government of Dubai. It is the largest company in the Middle East and operates more than 3.000 flights weekly. It operates a large number of national and international routes.

Turkish Airlines

Its base is at Atatürk International Airport, in Istanbul. It has 261 destinations, of which 43 are in Turkey and the remaining 108 include countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and America. It was founded in 1933.

Low cost airlines

In this section, we show you an alphabetized list of the main low-cost airlines in Europe, Latin America and the United States. You can find more detailed information in the article List of companies that offer cheap flights.

  • Aer Lingus. It is an Irish airline with cheap flights, based at Dublin Airport, Ireland. Part of this airline is owned by Ryanair. It offers flights within Europe and also to the US and Morocco.
  • Aeromexico Connect. It is a subdivision of the Mexican Aeromexico that mainly offers flights nationwide within Mexico.
  • Condor Flugdienst. Of German origin, it is the most popular company for low cost flights within Germany. It offers flights to Europe and also to North America, Africa, South America and Asia.
  • easyfly. This is the most popular charter company within Colombia since it was created in 2007. It offers routes nationwide.
  • easyJet. This airline of British origin is based in the London Luton Airport and it is one of the main airlines for cheap flights in Europe. It operates routes through Europe and also to some airports in Asia and North Africa.
  • Gol Transportes Aereos. This is the most popular airline in Brazil and its headquarters are at Guarulhos International Airport, in Guarulhos, São Paulo. Its main destinations are within Brazil, although it also operates routes to the US, Barbados, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, among others.
  • Iberia Express. It is a subdivision owned by the Iberia group that emerged in 2012 in order to offer low cost flights. Its headquarters are at the Madrid-Barajas Airport and it offers flights within Spain and to the main destinations in Europe.
  • Meridiana Fly. It is an Italian airline of low cost flights, whose headquarters are in Olbia, Italy. It was founded 52 years ago to promote tourism in Sardinia and, since 1991, it began operating international flights because of the success it achieved. It operates a wide range of routes across Europe.
  • Ryanair. To this day, the Irish Ryanair has become the leading low-cost airline in Europe together with easyJet. Together they cover more than 80% of the air market. It offers a large number of routes through Europe, although it also includes flights to Morocco.
  • Spirit Airlines. Its headquarters are in Miramar, Florida and it has been operating since 1980. The main destinations of this airline are: Florida, Texas, Nevada, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and South Carolina.
  • Volaris. It is a Mexican airline owned by Ryanair and is based in Santa Fe, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City. It mainly offers flights on a national scale, but also to the United States.
  • Vueling Airlines. Vueling is a Spanish airline based in Barcelona, ​​Spain. Within Spain, it is the leading company in the air market. It has been operating domestic and European flights since 2006.

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