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

Notes

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