Erick Burgueño Salas
Research expert covering climate change and the water industry
Get in touch with us nowLargest airlines in the world
Some of the largest airlines worldwide include: American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Deutsche Lufthansa, United Intercontinental Holdings, China Southern Airlines, and Air France-KLM. In 2020, Delta Air Lines was the airline with the highest brand value, closely followed by American, United and Southwest Airlines. American had an estimated brand value of just under 8.9 billion U.S. dollars.Impact of coronavirus on air passenger traffic
The aviation industry was severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic, erasing two decades of global passenger traffic growth in only a couple of months. The restrictions imposed by governments all over the world have kept aircraft fleets on the ground, decreased air passenger traffic by almost 61 percent, and generated only 328 billion U.S. dollars in revenue.
