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Even though Africa is the second largest continent by size and population, its airlines account for only about 6% of the world's air traffic, as most of it is being carried out by foreign air lines.^[1]

This is a list of largest airlines in Africa. It is ranked by number of transported passengers.

By passengers carried (millions)

Ranks	Country	Airline / Holding	'22	'21	'20	'19	'18	'17	'16	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	'09	'08	'07	'06	Passenger Fleet	Current Destinations	Sources	Alliance / Association
1	South Africa	South African Airways ¹						9.7	9.9	9.2	9.3	8.8	8.1	8.0	8.0	8.2	8.9	8.3	7.2	13	15	^[2]^[3]^[4]	Star Alliance
2	Ethiopia	Ethiopian Airlines ²	8.68	5.78	9.66	12.10		10.63	8.76	7.60	7.39	6.91	5.92	4.64	3.73	3.15	2.81	2.50		146^[5]	155	^[2]^[6]^[7]	Star Alliance
3	Egypt	Egyptair ³						8.5	7.3	7.4	8.2	11.8	8.3	8.0	8.7	7.9	8.2	7.8		78	102^[8]	^[2]^[9]^[10]	Star Alliance
4	Tunisia	Tunisair ⁴					3.8	3.5	3.0	2.8	3.5	3.7	3.8	3.2	3.7					30	44^[11]	^[12]
5	Morocco	Royal Air Maroc ⁵		3.4	2.2	7.4	7.3	7.3	6.8	6.1	6.3	5.8	5.6	5.8	6.1					52	89^[13]	^[2]^[14]^[15]	OneWorld
6	South Africa	FlySafair			3.0															34	15^[16]	^[17]
7	Nigeria	Air Peace										2.80	2.30							29	20	^[18]
8	Kenya	Kenya Airways ⁸		2.2	1.8	4.4	4.8	4.5	4.2	4.2	3.7	3.7	3.6	3.1	2.9					34	44^[19]	^[20]	SkyTeam
9	Algeria	Air Algérie		1.9		6.6	6.6	6.3	6.1	5.5	5.2	4.7	4.3	3.7	3.5	3.5	3.2	2.9		56	78^[21]	^[22]^[23] ^[24]^[25]^[23]^[26]^[27]^[28]^[29] ^[30]^[31]^[32]^[33]
10	Mauritius	Air Mauritius ¹⁰				1.724	1.695	1.603	1.499	1.370	1.330	1.297	1.325	1.295	1.133	1.192	1.311	1.177		12	14^[34]	^[35]	Vanilla Alliance
11	Tanzania	Air Tanzania	10.5	8.8	1.1	5.2	9.9	15.6	18.9	20.5	15.7	13.6	10.6	6.8	3.3					16	26
12	Libya	Libyan Airlines											1.2							14	22	^[36]

Notes

^1 Based on Fiscal Year ending 31 Mar. Includes figures for Mango.
^2 Based on Fiscal Year ending 7 Jul.
^3 Includes figures for Air Sinai and EgyptAir Express.
^4 Includes figures for Tunisair Express.
^5 Includes figures for Royal Air Maroc Express.
^6 Based on Fiscal Year ending 30 Jun. Includes figures for Jambojet.
^7 Based on Fiscal Year ending 30 Jun.

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Aviation statistics

Airports worldwide

Busiest airports by
continent and country

Africa	Morocco South Africa
Asia	China (excluding Hong Kong and Macau) India Indonesia Iran Israel Japan Kazakhstan Malaysia Pakistan Philippines Russia South Korea Taiwan Thailand Turkey
Europe	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Russia Spain Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom
North America	Canada Dominican Republic Mexico United States California Texas
Oceania	Australia New Zealand
South America	Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru
By region	Baltic Caribbean Central America European Union Latin America Middle East Nordic countries Post-Soviet states Southeast Asia

Airlines

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By passengers carried (millions)

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References