List of largest airlines in South America

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 ¹	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 ³	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 ²	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 ⁵	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 ⁴	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	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 ⁶		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 ¹⁰		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 ⁹	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