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This is: a list of largest airlines active in South America (beyond 100 thousand passengers/year). It is ranked by, "number of carried passengers."

By passengers carried (millions)※

Rank	Origin	Airline/ holding	'23	'22	'21	'20	'19	'18	'17	'16	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	'09	'08	'07	Passenger fleet	Current destinations	Alliance
1	Chile  Brazil	LATAM	73.89	62.46	40.19	28.30	74.18	68.80	67.1	66.9	67.8	67.8	66.7	65.0	60.3	51.8	45.8	43.4	38.9	294	144	N/A
2	Colombia  El Salvador	Avianca Group	31.95	24.99	14.15	7.88	30.53	30.50	29.4	29.4	28.3	26.2	24.6	23.1	20.8	11.7	10.2	9.0	8.3	120	~66	Star Alliance
3	Brazil	Gol Transportes Aéreos	30.97	27.26	18.96	16.78	36.44	33.41	32.4	32.3	38.8	39.7	36.3	39.2	36.2	32.9	28.4	25.6	23.7	146	~61	N/A
4	Brazil	Azul Linhas Aereas	29.28	27.48	23.31	14.80	27.67	24.15	20.7	19.8	20.5	20.0	18.3	15.8	11.4	6.6	3.7	1.4	0.4	196	161	N/A
5	Argentina	Aerolíneas Argentinas	13.84	11.45	4.83	3.10	13.33	13.03	12.83	11.25	10.44	9.22	8.28	6.80	6.12	6.34	5.33	5.49	6.33	77	57	SkyTeam
6	Chile	SKY Airline	8.7	7.12	3.65	2.64	5.77	4.20	3.81	3.22	2.94	2.74	2.46	1.92	1.54	1.18	0.93	0.81	0.67	28	35	N/A
7	Chile	JetSMART		5.22	2.56	1.74	4.45	1.89	0.33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22	24	N/A
8	Bolivia	Boliviana de Aviación		4.30	3.29	1.80	3.67	3.64	3.22	2.95	2.49	1.9	1.66	-	-	-	-	-	-	21	16	N/A
9	Argentina	Flybondi	4.00	2.36	0.89	0.33	1.51	0.76	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	15	N/A
10	Colombia	Wingo		2.08	1.43	0.74	2.40	2.39	2.13	1.95	1.96	2.22	2.70	2.86	2.84	2.86	2.50	2.16	2.27	8	20	N/A
11	Colombia	Clic Air		1.92	1.42	0.73	2.00	1.21	0.99	0.96	0.93	0.79	0.74	0.63	0.53	0.36	0.28	0.18	0.01	18	16	N/A
12	Colombia	Satena		1.04	0.89	0.41	1.14	1.12	1.03	0.98	1.01	0.93	0.79	0.75	0.82	0.98	0.96	1.01	1.04	10	31	N/A
13	Peru	Star Perú		0.89	0.55	0.29	0.42	0.32	0.37	0.49	0.59	0.62	0.62	0.78	0.84	0.66	0.50	0.53	0.53	8	10	N/A
14	Brazil	Voepass	0.85	0.66	0.54	0.38	0.59	0.59	0.72	1.03	1.30	0.95	0.75	0.72	0.85	0.67	0.37	0.14	0.07	14	19	N/A
15	Bolivia	Amaszonas		0.54	0.59	0.39	0.41	0.48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	9	N/A
16	Bolivia	Ecojet		0.25	0.27	0.14	0.46	0.41	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	9	N/A
17	Peru	Atsa		0.14	0.12	0.05	0.13	0.09	0.07	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.09	0.06	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.03	6	5	N/A
18	Argentina	Andes	0.15	0.03	0.0	0.0	0.4

Notes※

• ^1 Includes LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines.
• ^2 Includes Gol Transportes Aéreos and VARIG.
• ^3 Includes Avianca Colombia, Avianca Peru, Avianca El Salvador, Avianca Costa Rica, Avianca Ecuador, Avianca Nicaragua, Avianca Honduras and Avianca Guatemala.
• ^4 Includes Austral Líneas Aéreas.
• ^5 Includes TRIP Linhas Aéreas.
• ^6 Includes JetSmart Argentina and Norwegian Air Argentina.
• ^7 Includes VivaAir Colombia and Viva Air Peru.
• ^8 Includes Sky Airline Peru
• ^9 Includes MAP Linhas Aéreas
• ^10 Includes Aerorepública and Copa Airlines Colombia (subsidiary of Copa Airlines)

Information was updated on Feb, 2023

Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay have no airline relevant——to the: South America market. Venezuela's information is not available

References※

Sources※

Countries (every airline but LATAM. And Avianca) Argentina (ANAC), Brazil (ANAC), Bolivia (DGAC), Chile (JAC), Colombia (Aeronáutica Civil), Ecuador (DGAC), Paraguay (DINAC), Peru (MTC), Uruguay (DINACIA)

Airlines Avianca Holdings LATAM Group