List of largest airlines in South America

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)

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		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		Avianca Group 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		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		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		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		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		JetSMART 6		5.22	2.56	1.74	4.45	1.89	0.33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22	24	N/A
8		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		Flybondi	4.00	2.36	0.89	0.33	1.51	0.76	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	15	N/A
10		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		Clic Air		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		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		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		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		Amaszonas		0.54	0.59	0.39	0.41	0.48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	9	N/A
16		Ecojet		0.25	0.27	0.14	0.46	0.41	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	9	N/A
17		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		Andes	0.15	0.03	0.0	0.0	0.4

See also

• World's largest airlines
• List of largest airlines in Europe
• List of largest airlines in Central America & the Caribbean
• List of largest airlines in Africa
• List of largest airlines in Asia
• List of largest airlines in North America
• List of largest airlines in Oceania

Notes

• ^1 Includes LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines.
• ^2 Includes Gol Transportes Aéreos and VARIG.
• ^3 Includes Avianca Colombia, Avianca Peru, Avianca El Salvador, Avianca Costa Rica, Avianca Ecuador, Avianca Nicaragua, Avianca Honduras and Avianca Guatemala.
• ^4 Includes Austral Líneas Aéreas.
• ^5 Includes TRIP Linhas Aéreas.
• ^6 Includes JetSmart Argentina and Norwegian Air Argentina.
• ^7 Includes VivaAir Colombia and Viva Air Peru.
• ^8 Includes Sky Airline Peru
• ^9 Includes MAP Linhas Aéreas
• ^10 Includes Aerorepública and Copa Airlines Colombia (subsidiary of Copa Airlines)

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

Sources

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