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Global air traffic - scheduled passengers 2004-2018

Number of scheduled passengers boarded by the global airline industry from 2004 to 2018 (in millions)

The data displays the number of scheduled passengers handled by the airline industry globally from 2004 to 2018. Worldwide, commercial airlines carried just over four billion passengers on scheduled flights in 2017.

2004 1994
2005 2135
2006 2255
2007 2452
2008 2489
2009 2479
2010 2695
2011 2859
2012 2991
2013 3143
2014 3326
2015 3565
2016 3815
2017 4093
2018 4358