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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2020)

By passengers carried (millions)

Rank	Country	Airline / holding	'21	'20	'19	'18	'17	'16	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	Passenger fleet	Current destinations	Sources	Alliance
1	China	China Southern Airlines		96.9	151.6	139.8	126.2	114.6	109.4	100.9	91.8	86.5	80.7	76.4	629	216		n/a
2	China	China Eastern Airlines 1		71.9	130.0	121.1	110.8	101.7	93.8	83.8	79.1	73.1	68.7	64.9	588	248		SkyTeam
3	China	Air China 2		16.4 (Apr)	115.0	109.7	101.5	96.5	89.8	83.0	77.7	72.4	69.4	60.0	456	201		Star Alliance
4	India	IndiGo		12.5 (Mar)	84.7	61.9	49.2	41.0	29.7	22.8	19.3	15.8	12	8.5	280	96		n/a
5	Malaysia	Air Asia Group 3		9.9 (Mar)	83.5	73.0	63.3	60.1	54.8	48.8	45.2	34.1	29.9	25.7	255	165		-
6	China	Hainan Airlines 4				79.9	71.7	46.3	38.6	35.6	26.3	22.6	20.5	18.6	221	110		n/a
7	United Arab Emirates	Emirates 5			56.2	58.6	58.5	56.1	51.9	49.3	44.5	39.4	34.0	31.4	252	157	[1]	n/a
8	Indonesia	Lion Air Group 6					51.8	33.2 (Lion Air only)	53.0	45.0	37.9	32.0	27.0	20.5	140	60	[permanent dead link]	n/a
9	Japan	All Nippon Airways 7		8.9 (Mar)	50.7	49.8	49.2	47.3	50.8	50.4	49.0	47.4	44.9	45.7	225	97		Star Alliance
10	Japan	Japan Airlines 8		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		oneworld
11	Singapore	Singapore Airlines 9		6.7 (Apr)	38.1	35.5	32.4	33.7	22.5	22.2	18.7	18.1	16.9	16.6	157	137		Star Alliance
12	Hong Kong	Cathay Pacific 10		4.3 (Apr)	35.2	35.4	34.8	34.3	34.0	31.5	29.9	29.0	27.6	26.8	159	88		oneworld
13	Saudi Arabia	Saudia					32.2	30.0	27.9	14.8	11.5	10.3	8.4	-	157	132		Skyteam
14	Indonesia	Garuda Indonesia 11		6.0 (Mar)	31.9	38.4	36.2	34.9	32.9	29.1	24.9	20.4	17.1	12.5	134	90		SkyTeam
15	India	Air India 12			30.4	28.3	26.4	23.5	18.0	16.7	17.3	16.0	-	15.0	127	102		Star Alliance
16	Qatar	Qatar Airways				29.5	29.1	30.0	30.0	26.7	22.4	18.0	17.0	16.0	253	173		oneworld
17	South Korea	Korean Air 13					26.8	26.8	24.9	23.3	23.6	24.0	23.3	22.9	159	121		SkyTeam
18	Vietnam	VietJet Air			25.0	23.1	17.1	14.1	9.3	-	-	-	-	-	74	46		n/a
19	India	SpiceJet			24.3	19.2	17.3	14.3	11.7	12.6	11.7	9.5	8.6	6.6	118	53		n/a
20	Vietnam	Vietnam Airlines			23.0	22.0	22.0	20.6	17.4	15.7	15.0	14.0	-	-	103	64	[permanent dead link]	SkyTeam
21	Philippines	Cebu Pacific 14	3.4	5.0	16.7 (Sep)	20.3	19.7	19.1	18.4	16.9	14.4	12.3	10.5	9.6	52	62	Archived 2020-05-29 at the Wayback Machine	Value Alliance
22	Thailand	Thai Airways 15		3.5 (Apr)	19.4	19.7	24.6	22.2	21.2	19.1	21.5	20.6	18.4	18.2	36	59		Star Alliance
23	South Korea	Asiana Airlines 16						18.4	-	17.3	16.3	15.0	14.7	13.9	83	90		Star Alliance
24	Philippines	Philippine Airlines 17				17.0	14.5	13.4	12.0	12.0	11.2	12.7	-	-	61	49	Archived 2018-07-04 at the Wayback Machine	n/a
25	India	Go First			16.1	12.5	10.0	8.2	6.9	6.2	5.1	4.2	3.7	3	55	38	[2]	-
26	Taiwan	China Airlines 18		2.2 (Apr)	15.6	15.6	15.1	14.7	14.7	14.1	12.8	11.4	-	11.3	83	102		SkyTeam
27	Malaysia	Malaysia Airlines 19					14.0	20.7	15.0	16.0	17.2	13.4	13.3	13.1	81	64	[permanent dead link]	oneworld
28	Taiwan	EVA Airways		2.1 (Apr)	12.8	12.5	12.1	11.2	10.0	8.9	8.0	7.5	6.6	6.4	87	62	[permanent dead link]	Star Alliance
29	India	Jet Airways 20			5.5	29.8	29.1	26.5	22.9	18.3	17.0	17.4	16.2	14.2	12	69		n/a
30	United Arab Emirates	Etihad Airways 21		4.2	17.5	17.8	18.6	18.4	17.6	14.8	11.5	10.2	8.3	7.1	103	81		n/a
31	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Airways			11.0	10.1	9.9	-	8.6	7.8	6.5	5.2	-	-	34	58		n/a

Notes

• ^1 Includes figures for Shanghai Airlines and China United Airlines.
• ^2 Includes figures for Shenzhen Airlines (including Kunming Airlines), Air Macau and Dalian Airlines.
• ^3 Includes figures for Thai AirAsia, Indonesia AirAsia, Philippines AirAsia, AirAsia India, AirAsia X and Thai AirAsia X.
• ^4 Includes figures for Chang An Airlines, China Xinhua Airlines and Shan Xi Airlines.
• ^5 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar.
• ^6 Includes figures for Batik Air, Wings Air, Batik Air Malaysia and Thai Lion Air.
• ^7 Includes figures for Dragonair.
• ^8 Includes figures for J-Air and JAL Express.
• ^9 Includes figures for Scoot and SilkAir.
• ^10 Includes figures for Air Japan, ANA Wings and Vanilla Air.
• ^11 Includes figures for Citilink.
• ^12 Includes figures for Air India Express and Alliance Air.
• ^13 Includes figures for Jin Air.
• ^14 Includes figures for Cebgo.
• ^15 Includes figures for Thai Smile.
• ^16 Includes figures for Air Busan.
• ^17 Includes figures for PAL Express.
• ^18 Includes figures for Mandarin Airlines.
• ^19 Includes figures for Firefly and MASwings.
• ^20 Includes figures for JetKonnect.
• ^21 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar.

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