Airlines With The World's Largest Fleets (2023 Edition)
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2024
- When it comes to determining the world’s largest airlines, many different metrics can be used. You could go by annual passenger volume, the number of destinations, or even by annual revenue. But a common method used to rank airline size is the number of aircraft in the fleet.
Well, for today’s video Simple Flying has compiled a list of the largest commercial airlines (passenger and cargo) in terms of fleet size in 2023. Aircraft are regularly being delivered to airlines with others being retired. So, by the time you watch this, specific numbers may not be 100% accurate. However, it should give a pretty good idea of the largest fleets anyways!
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Didnt the "Ex" part in FedEx already stand for Express? Fastforward another 20 years they'll rebrand to FedExEx 😁.
I thought the SAME thing, seems a bit redundant but hey.
I think that they Walter to have a diffrent name for the airline from the main company
I thought exactly the same thing.
I was impressed when I was in the one of the most remote parts of rural Washington state with respect to aviation when I saw a FedEx Express Cessna at an airport that consisted of a sorta paved runway and a maintenance hut. A small FedEx van scurried across the "service" road to meet the plane. Now that's corporate dedication.
Love that typo early on: "Largest Airlines by Feet Size"! 🤣
As someone from FDX’s world hub city, it would have been INCREDIBLE to see A380s grace the airport.
Incredible, top 5 are all American. I remember when the U.S.S.R had the largest fleet by far. Flew on all 3 carriers and worked at American, my best experience because I was upgraded to Business on a 767-300er EZE-JFK, circled JFK for an hour and finally ended up in IAD after almost 14hrs! Also been on their MD-80, 727 & F100, the latter was quiet and I prefer a 3-2 seat configuration. Impressed with United's 777 too, the 1st I flew with IFE, also been on 767-300er. Last carrier for me was Delta last year and I have to say from an avgeek's perspective they're the best, simply because of their fleet diversity. Highlight was the 767-400er, beautiful plane, the only thing preventing it from being perfect was the noise, 3-2-3 configuration is very comfortable for long haul, hopped on their A321, 737-900er, CRJ-900 too. Next on my list is Delta's A220, 717 & 757. If Delta continue with their fleet diversity they'll always be my 1st choice. Imagine... E2-190s for regional flights, A220s for transcontinental, A321XLRs for long thin routes, 787s for medium capacity, A350-1000s & 777-9x for high density. However who wouldn't love to see the 747-8i in Delta's colours?!?!?!? That's a proper flag carrier for an American Airline!!! DELTA BRING BACK THE QUEEN‼
9:45 AA no longer uses the 757’s but they’re listed there 😉
Just a correction, AA no longer operates 767s or 757s.
Yep gone for a few years now. They were going anyway and the pandemic just quicked the retirement. Their 767s were awful any way so was happy they were gone.
Note they don't mention that on the video speech
757s one of the best ever 😢
There are a few errors in this video. FedEx used to be called Federal Express. Most people called it FedEx for short and that version became more recognizable. Also, a lot of people thought that Federal Express was affiliated to the US government. Those two factors prompted the name change.
Also, the list of airplanes for American has 757s and 767s. They were retired along with the A330s.
Not exactly. FedEx Express focuses mainly on its aircraft operations.
Fedex is still flying 757's, one just had to land belly up a couple weeks ago.
I wonder if people actually read the post before writing a response.
Another mistake they made was Delta being an all Boeing fleet before the merger with Northwest. They had many MD-80 and MD-90s.
@@AviationCommercialsBoeing start made both type since its merger with McDonnell Douglas in 1997 until its stopped production in 1999 and 2000 respectively
B717 was originally marketed as MD-95 before changed after the merger
As the United B767-300s are more than 30 years old and facing retirement soon, I hope the younger B767-400s will continue flying for a long time more. About how many years left?
They are not that much younger at over 22 years old now. UA has made it clear both versions are going with the huge orders for the 787. It's DL that seems to be still figuring out what they are going to do with the 767s
@@johniii8147will United keep the -400 and employ the new huge order to replace the -300 or use the new order to new long haul destinations?
@@johniii8147 I think one version of DL's 767s are much older and facing retirement soon, but they said the other version (probably the -400) is much younger and still some time left before retirement
@@Icelandair_B767 What DL is struggling with is they don't have a replacement for the 767 they want. The 330NEO option is quite a bit bigger and heavier than the 767 and they don't need the range for their TA network in most cases.
Flew on their 767-400s ATL-EZE with a fully updated cabin, so they should be around for a while.
I am going to be flying the Delta 757-200 twice in November. Looking forward to it
Very interesting👍and quite surprise as well.👍👍
FedEx used to be Federal Express. Better than Fedup I suppose. Aeroflot used to be the largest or Flot for short.
American never operated the 767-400. The 400 was only ordered by continental and delta. United inherited them after the merger.
I was surprised FedEx was included on this list being from Memphis, especially including FedEx Feeder aircraft while the 3 legacy carriers did not have any of their regional subsidiaries included.
Haven't flown on the US Big 3 yet, though I would love to fly on Delta Airlines to ATL as my very first US destination.
superb mister
United flies to 6 continents, not 5 as mentioned in the video! 4:29
Yep and the largest US international airline in wide bodies aircrafts, destinations and countries served. Largest US carrier across the Asia pacific and largest across the Atlantic. Once their huge orders of wide bodies start arriving they’ll truly leave the other US carriers behind with more international capacity and destinations.
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This suggestion requires work (for someone else), but an interesting video would be one that looks at orders in the works and likely retirements to predict the makeup of carriers in, say, ten years. I think airlines such as Ryanair is on the way to make this list.
Interesting, I’m a regular customer of FedEx and am only now discovering that they rebranded to FedEx Express twenty years ago. I wonder how it’s working out.
I've flown on every aircraft type in the AA fleet, except the A321-T that's used between JFK and the West Coast. On Delta I've flown on all but the new Airbus types in their fleet and 767-400. On United, I've flown on pretty much all their aircraft types too, except maybe the 767-400. I've flown on every Southwest aircraft type, including the Max 8.
It's interesting that FedEx doesn't have any 747s in their fleet. I think they used to, so they must have retired them all. They only operate twin engine aircraft now, except for the MD-11.
It's also interesting that the top 5 airlines in the world with the largest fleets are all US airlines.
They operated the 747 for a couple of years from the Flying Tiger acquisition, but quickly got rid of them. They really never were interested in the aircraft. Probably just too big for them and their operating model which is quite a bit different from UPS that loves the 747
@@johniii8147 I think that it's mainly more about efficiency. The 777, A300 and MD-11 aren't that much smaller than the 747, but definitely more efficient. Had they ordered the A380-F, they would have probably gotten rid of them too.
@@sainnt They actually did order the 380F back when it was offered, but the whole thing was canceled. UPS focuses a lot more on heavy freight so the 747 made more sense than for FED.
@@johniii8147 I know that FedEx ordered the A380-F. They also got some 747 after a prior acquisition of another cargo airline, but they got rid of those too. FedEx mainly operates twin engine aircraft, with the exception of the MD-11. The 777 isn't much smaller than the 747 in terms of cargo capacity.
I've been on Southwest (2015), Delta (2016-2019) & United (2022 as well as an upcoming trip next month). My favorite plane would have to be United's 787-10.
Does anyone know whether DHL 767 freighters fly to Singapore? I live in Singapore and there are no passenger airlines operating 767 flights here, but 2 months ago when my flight was departing Singapore I saw a DHL freighter on the runway and it looked like a 767F but I cant be 100% sure it was a 767.
please make video about the new saudia airlines livery and companies convertion to a new start.
I line in Minneapolis, so Delta is my primary airline - I have flown United as well… but not since 2013. When flying with my wife, I like flying the A330-300 best thanks to it’s 2-4-2 configuration - if solo, I love the B787-9 (via KLM) best. Without a doubt, I much prefer the twin bodies over the single isle planes, though.
Federal Express Express must be the dumbest name of any company
i think Southwest will be surpass soon by Indigo as the worl's largest low cost airline when all of Indigo's airplane order arrived.
It will take some years for Indigo to receive all the Airbuses they have ordered though.
@@Rasscasseand southwest will buy new planes plus the exiting planes. Doubt if they’ll want to relinquish that title.
yah, but with the the huge order from airbus they will surpass southwest. @@Rasscasse
Delta is my airline of choice followed by United.
My favorite aircraft types the A350-9, B757-300, and A220-300.
American used to be my favorite, but I have to say that United has taken the honor now. United has really stepped up their service and cabins to be more compatible with major European and Asian legacy carriers. Still nowhere near, say, Singapore Airlines or Emirates and Qatar Airways, but definite improvement in the right direction.
im suprised southwest only has 15 hubs or fucus cities
Love United and American 😊
“FedEx Express”
Federal Express Express
Pretty sure American retired their 757s and 767s in 2020. My dad was a captain for them at the time.
Well. I live in Europe and I prefer SWISS and Lufthansa. A380 is definitely the best of them all. In US I have Flew with United and Pan Am.
Thks for a nice information. 😀😀
fav airline: Thai
Soon turkish airlines will be in this list ❤ 🇹🇷 ✈️
Without a doubt Delta Airlines is my absolute favorite airline on this list ❤❤❤❤❤❤💯💯💯💯💯💯💙💙💙💙💙 and by the way also i work for Fedex lol
Southwest is my favorite airline in the sense that I always know what equipment I will be on.
No actually you don't. 737 sure, but could be a 700,800, or 800MAX with very different interiors.
And they are by far my least favorite airline because of their wacky boarding procedures and the terrible way they treated my family stranding us in Milwaukee and only agreeing to get us out the next day after 2 1/2 hours of complaining. They were so short staffed they had ramp agents working customer support and no ticking agents at all on the counters, just folks collecting baggage. So unprofessional! I'll stick with Alaska from now on!
fedex could rename it self to fedup...
Looking at this video reminds us that some of the aircraft flying in these fleets should have been retired years ago.
Using aircraft that are over 25 years of age on transatlantic flights doesn't fill me with confidence.
I'll always choose a carrier that is utilising a 350 / 380 or a 787 crossing the pond.
The government has B-52 bombers flying that were built in the 1950s. It is possible to keep airplanes flying indefinitely if you maintain them.
What about Emirates, why only American
Last!
second last!
Dead last
Absolute last.
don't really hear about the B767-300 ERF much . . . if the B767-300 ERF does exist it'd be a conversion from pax configuration to cargo . . . United should retire it's B737-700 fleet & cancel its B737-MAX7 order . . . replace the B737-700 with A321-200 Neo . . .
Delta all the way 😃
United and Delta B767s are the best!
Actually they can't go fast enough at this point.
As an American, I’m not happy to learn that the 5 biggest airlines in the world are all American companies. Are regulators in the rest of the world are doing a better job of keeping competition alive by preventing corporations from getting too big?
The corporations exist, just not in the traditional way.
IAG, Lufthansa Group and KLM-AirFrance own almost all the full service and a good chunk mid tier airlines across the UK and EU.
But the fleets are counted independently.
Comparing things to Europe, in Europe there is a big network of high-speed rail, so the need for short domestic flights, even to neighbouring countries is far less than in America, where high speed rail does not exist.
In France recently they brought in a regulation that governs internal flights in France. Below a certain distance they are not allowed to offer internal flights and passengers are obliged to use other means including the comprehensive high-speed rail network called TGV. This regulation was brought in for environmental reasons.
The Germans have their high-speed rail network (ICE) as do the Italians and the Spanish as well, plus others. This reduces the demand for short flights in Europe and therefore inhibits the size of aircraft fleets.
As an example, you can fly from London Heathrow to Charles de Gaulle airport north of Paris, but if you were to include the whole journey time, including travelling from home to arriving at an office for example , the Eurostar train is quicker, because it is city centre to city centre and there’s no need to travel to an airport outside of the city and do all the security checks et cetera and then travel from the airport back to the city centre at the end of the journey.
If you were going to London or Paris for a connecting flight then flying would make more sense I guess.
Until there is a genuine high-speed rail, that is to say 150 miles an hour and above, in the USA, Americans are going to continue to fly domestically, even short journeys and this will maintain the American fleets large in size.
Obviously there are other factors, but this is one area in which Europe differs greatly from America.
@@bandbigred
Good point you make.
@@Rasscassedifferent and various mode of transport in Europe make it harder for them to grow the airline fleet size for anyone carrier plus a fragmented market with a ton of low cost players and mega airline groups who mostly fly longer international singular routes limiting their ability to offer a shuttle type service within the continent. One or two hubs with limited capacity to grow out off while the US airlines have multiple hubs and a huge singular domestic market with little or no competition due to mergers and acquisitions. You have to drive or take a plane if you don’t live in the northeast corridor. Delta in ATL have nearly 200 domestic destinations at that airport alone, with some multiple flights a day at midsize markets and near hourly shuttle service to focus cities and or network hubs. Multiply that by American and United. The need for more planes to move people across state line is greater for passengers and operators. Western Europe is about half a size smaller than the US with adequate intra city transport, and shorter high density urbanized distances to drive limiting the need for more planes to take people across such distances.
Like many European airlines that fly only Airbus fleet, these huge American airlines should use only Boeing aircraft exclusively. Just to be fair!
Ah that's not true... Most of the european Airlines have Boeing in their fleet... Ryanair exclusevly only uses Boeing aircraft!
The Americans have the biggest Fleet because they are the best