Do you know 10 biggest names in the airline industry?

01/14/2019

Once in a while, we take a break from reporting cars and try something a bit higher above the ground. Dig in to see 10 biggest names in the airline industry!

On Naijauto.com, we cover every wheeled and engined machine, and airplanes indeed fall into that category. Today, we’ll dig deeper into the airline industry by talking about the number of airplanes and also flights that they manage to operate every year.

If you were given a guess, which country do you think that own the greatest number of aircraft? It’s very likely that you’d guess America, and that’s very true. Statistics show that the top 4 airlines in the U.S own in a total of more than 2500 planes. In comparison, the top 3 in China own nearly 1600 planes. In Africa, Nigeria’s biggest airline company own more than twenty airplanes, around one-fifth of the largest on in Africa, the Ethiopia Airline.

Now, because the devil is in the details, let’s proceed to the list of 10 airlines with the greatest number of airlines:

Rank 1: American Airlines

This corporation owns nearly a thousand aircraft and carries passengers directly to more than 3 hundred destinations. The brands are mostly from Boeing and Airbus.

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This is the biggest airline in the U.S

Rank 2 and 3: The Delta Airline and United Airlines

Equally impressive, those two carriers also operate flights to over 300 locations on this planet earth and possesses nearly 900 airplanes. It’s notable that though United Airlines own around 100 fewer planes than the Delta but fly to 20 more locations.