Top 10 Airlines in USA

Now a day, airline becomes an essential part of our life. They help us to connect with the world. Either for vacation or for business purposes, we want to travel in less time. But we stuck at one point because there are many airline which offer services. So, we need to pick the best one.
We have arranged them so that you don’t have to take much pain.
The top three fastest-growing markets in terms of annual passengers between now and 2036 compared to 2020 will be
  • China (1021 million new passengers for a total of 1.6 billion)
  • United States (501 million new passengers for a total of 1.2 billion)
  • India (437 million new passengers for a total of 578 million)
Looking at North America, here is a list of the top 10 airlines, based on the number of passengers flown. Directly from the airlines’ latest traffic data, Statistics has been taken.

1. American Airlines

American Airlines, which merged with US Airways in 2013, retains the top spot of carriers based on passenger traffic. The Fort Worth, Texas-based carrier handled 209 million passengers with 2.2 million flights operated in 2017. American Airlines and American Eagle fly an average of 7,700 flights a day to nearly 351 destinations in more than 51 countries.


It has hubs at -
  • Charlotte Douglas International Airport
  • Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport ​
  • John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York)
  • Los Angeles International Airport
  • Miami International Airport
  • Chicago O'Hare International Airport
  • Philadelphia International Airport
  • Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
  • Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

2. Delta Air Lines

Delta comes second among top 10 airlines in USA according to number of passengers flown. Ten years after its merger with Northwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines carried 186.3 million passengers with 5400 daily departures. Delta and its Delta Connection carriers offer service to 306 destinations in 52 countries on six continents. The Atlanta-based carrier has more than 80,000 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 800 aircraft.


It has hubs in -
  • Atlanta
  • Cincinnati
  • Detroit
  • Minneapolis-St. Paul
  • New York-LaGuardia
  • New York-JFK
  • Salt Lake City
  • Seattle
  • Paris-Charles de Gaulle
  • Amsterdam
  • Tokyo-Narita

3. Southwest Airlines

The granddaddy of low-cost airlines acquired AirTran Airways in 2011 and carried 130.2 million passengers with 3600 daily departures in 2017, up 4.4 percent from 2016. During peak travel seasons, Southwest operates more than 4,000-weekday departures among a network of 100 destinations in the U.S. and 10 countries.


Its top five focus cities are -
  • Chicago Midway
  • Baltimore-Washington
  • Las Vegas
  • Denver
  • Phoenix

4. United Airlines

United carried 14 million passengers in 2017, up 3.4 percent from 2016, with 4500 flights a day to 337 airports across five continents. It operates 743 mainline aircraft while the United Express carriers operate 478 regional aircraft.


Its hubs are -
  • Guam's Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport
  • Denver International Airport
  • Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport
  • Los Angeles International Airport
  • Tokyo's Narita International Airport
  • Newark Liberty International Airport
  • Chicago O'Hare International Airport
  • San Francisco International Airport
  • Washington Dulles International Airport

5. Air Canada

Canada's flag carrier handled 47 million passengers with 1499 daily departures serving more than 201 airports on six continents.


Its hubs are -
  • Toronto-Pearson International Airport
  • Calgary International Airport 
  • MontrĂ©al–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
  • Vancouver International Airport

6. Alaska Airlines

Since buying San Francisco-based Virgin America in April 2016, Seattle's hometown airline carried 40 million passengers to more than 115 destinations with an average of 1,200 daily flights across the United States and to Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica and Cuba in 2017.


Its hubs are ​
  • Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
  • Los Angeles International Airport 
  • Portland International Airport

7. JetBlue

The New York-based carrier handled more than 40 million passengers to 101 cities and 1000 daily departures in 2019. One of the best service provider.


Its focus cities are -
  • Boston-Logan International Airport
  • Long Beach Airport
  • Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport
  • Orlando International Airport

8. WestJet

The Calgary-based low-cost carrier handled 19.6 million passengers with 720 daily flights to more than 105 destinations in North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Europe.


It has hubs at
  • Calgary International Airport
  • Toronto Pearson International Airport
It also has focus cities at -
  • Edmonton International Airport
  • Vancouver International Airport
  • Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport

9.Spirit Airlines

The Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based airline carried 24.1 million passengers and operated more than 453 daily flights to 61 destinations in the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean.


It operates hubs in Fort Lauderdale and Detroit, along with the focus cities of -
  • Dallas/Fort Worth
  • Las Vegas, Chicago
  • Houston, Atlantic City 
  • New Jersey
  • Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

10. Aeromexico

The country's flag carrier handled 20.6 million passengers to 45 cities in Mexico, 18 in the United States, 15 in Latin America, four in Canada, four in Europe, and three in Asia with 602 daily flights in 2017.


Its hubs are -
  • Mexico City International Airport
  • Guadalajara's Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport
  • General Ignacio International Airport in Hermosillo
  • General Mariano Escobedo International Airport in Monterrey
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