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Top 10 Airlines by Passengers (1970-2025)

At its peak, one Soviet airline carried 125 million passengers a year — more than any airline in history. Then it lost 75% of them overnight. What happened? This visualization tracks the top 10 airlines by annual passengers carried (in millions) from 1970 to 2025, updated quarterly. 📊 Data compiled and mathematically interpolated from 25+ sources including IATA, ICAO, US Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and airline annual reports. Some values are estimated through cross-referencing and statistical interpolation between confirmed data points. Key moments: 🔹 1978 — US Airline Deregulation Act — low-cost carriers are born 🔹 1991 — Pan Am ceases operations — end of an aviation icon 🔹 1992 — USSR collapse: Aeroflot drops from 125M to 32M passengers 🔹 2001 — 9/11 devastates global aviation 🔹 2008 — Delta merges with Northwest, reshaping US rankings 🔹 2013 — American merges with US Airways, becomes world's largest 🔹 2020 — COVID-19 collapses global aviation 60-90% 🔹 2023 — Ryanair and IndiGo lead the post-COVID recovery #dataviz #barchartrace #dataisbeautiful #aviation #airlines #aeroflot #ryanair #americanairlines #delta #southwest #indigo