World’s 10 largest airlines line up for World Routes

All of the world’s top ten airlines by passenger numbers are confirmed to attend World Routes 2017.

World Routes is the largest global gathering of airlines, airports and tourism destinations, with thousands of high-level meetings taking place each year.

The event presents an unrivalled platform for route development professionals to discuss, develop and plan network strategy.

There are now 261 airlines already confirmed for the 2017 event in Barcelona, represented by 554 delegates.

Many of the largest airlines have also increased the size of their delegations, with a host of senior individuals such as CEOs, directors, VPs and SVPs confirmed.

In total 27 of the world’s 30 largest airlines will be taking part in the event.

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World’s largest airlines by passengers:

  1. American Airlines
  2. Delta Air Lines
  3. Southwest Airlines
  4. United Airlines
  5. Ryanair
  6. China Southern Airlines
  7. China Eastern Airlines
  8. EasyJet
  9. Turkish Airlines
  10. Lufthansa

Furthermore all of the top 10 airline groups by RPK will also be represented at the event.

World’s largest airline groups by RPK:

  1. American Airlines Group
  2. Delta Airlines
  3. United Continental Holdings
  4. Emirates Airline
  5. IAG
  6. Air France-KLM
  7. Lufthansa Group
  8. China Southern Air
  9. Southwest Airlines
  10. Air China Group

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Wesley Charnock

Wesley Charnock is Content Marketing Director for Aviation Week Network.