The world's busiest airlines have been revealed - and it is American carriers that fly the most. American Airlines is ranked top of a list of busiest airlines after flying 324 million scheduled passenger kilometres (201 million miles) in 2017. The top five is rounded off by Southwest Airlines, which flew 207.7 million scheduled passenger kilometres (129 million miles). Also making the top ten is China Southern Airlines in sixth place on 177.4 million kilometres (110 million miles) followed by Ryanair in seventh on 157.1 million kilometres (97.6 million miles). Lufthansa is eighth on 152.2 million kilometres (94.5 million miles) followed by China Eastern Airlines (151 million km/93.8 million miles) and Air China (145 million km/90 million miles).

Source: Daily Mail September 07, 2018 14:58 UTC