 What is the world's largest airline (And, what is the criteria?)
"Kenny McCormack" <gazelle@xmission.xmission.com> wrote in message
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> What is the world's largest airline (And, what is the criteria?)
>
> First, a quick online search says the answer (as of now, 2008) is
> "American Airlines", but that up until recently, it was United.
>
> However, I was watching an old game show (on GSN) and the question was
> asked, and the answer was given as Aeroflot (Russian carrier). Playing
> along with the game show, I thought the answer was United and was
> surprised at their answer.
>
> So:
> 1) Was Aeroflot really the world's largest (in '84/'85) ?
> 2) (Absent any specification) What is the criteria? Market Cap? # of
> employees? # of planes? # of cities served? Revenue?
>
At that time Aeroflot did everything in the USSR. It had more planes and
carried more passengers than any other airline in the world. Of course,
they didn't have a capitalisation as such so that measure doesn't work and
fares were subsidised so revenue would not be comparable. I suspect number
of cities served was also pretty big and may well have been biggest.
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