This is a list of largest airlines active in South America (beyond 100 thousand passengers/year). It is ranked by number of carried passengers.
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 | |
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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 | Colombia/ El Salvador | Avianca Holdings 3 | 31.95 | 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 | |
3 | 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 | |
4 | Brazil | Azul Linhas Aereas 5 | 29.28 | 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 | |
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 |
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
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)
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