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)[edit]

Rank Origin Airline/ holding '23 '22 '21 '20 '19 '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 '13 '12 '11 '10 '09 '08 '07 Passenger
fleet
Current
destinations
Alliance
1  Chile Brazil LATAM 1 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 38.9 294 144 N/A
2  Brazil Gol Transportes Aéreos 2 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 ~61 N/A
3  Brazil Azul Linhas Aereas 5 29.16 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 0.4 196 161 N/A
4  Colombia/ El Salvador Avianca Holdings 3 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 8.3 120 ~66 Star Alliance
5  Argentina Aerolíneas Argentinas 4 13.84 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 77 57 Skyteam
6  Chile SKY Airline 8 8.7 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 28 35 N/A
7  Chile JetSMART 6 5.22 2.56 1.74 4.45 1.89 0.33 - - - - - - - - - - 22 24 N/A
8  Bolivia Boliviana de Aviación 4.30 3.29 1.80 3.67 3.64 3.22 2.95 2.49 1.9 1.66 - - - - - - 21 16 N/A
9  Argentina Flybondi 4.00 2.36 0.89 0.33 1.51 0.76 - - - - - - - - - - - 5 15 N/A
10  Colombia Wingo 10 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 8 20 N/A
11  Colombia Easyfly 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 18 16 N/A
12  Colombia Satena 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 10 31 N/A
13  Peru Star Perú 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 10 N/A
14  Brazil Voepass 9 0.85 0.66 0.54 0.38 0.59 0.59 0.72 1.03 1.30 0.95 0.75 0.72 0.85 0.67 0.37 0.14 0.07 14 19 N/A
15  Bolivia Amaszonas 0.54 0.59 0.39 0.41 0.48 - - - - - - - - - - - 13 9 N/A
16  Bolivia Ecojet 0.25 0.27 0.14 0.46 0.41 - - - - - - - - - - - 4 9 N/A
17  Peru Atsa 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 5 N/A
18  Argentina Andes 0.15 0.03 0.0 0.0 0.4
 Colombia/ Peru Viva Air Colombia 7 (liquidated) X 7.78 5.73 2.37 6.02 4.26 3.76 3.46 2.91 2.28 1.83 0.55 - - - - - 22 26 N/A
 Colombia Ultra Air (liquidated) X 1.44 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8 9 N/A

Notes[edit]

Information was updated on Feb, 2023

Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay have no airline relevant to the South America market. Venezuela's information is not available

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

Countries (every airline but LATAM and Avianca) Argentina (ANAC), Brazil (ANAC), Bolivia (DGAC), Chile (JAC), Colombia (Aeronáutica Civil), Ecuador (DGAC), Paraguay (DINAC), Peru (MTC), Uruguay (DINACIA)

Airlines Avianca Holdings LATAM Group