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	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

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

References

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