Flight International's Top 50 Airlines survey has revealed that American Airlines parent AMR remains the world's biggest airline group, with a turnover of more than $19 billion in 1998. Delta Airlines flew the most passengers - 105 million - and United Airlines is number one in terms of traffic, with more than 200 billion revenue passenger kilometres. AMR, Delta and UAL also ranked one, two and three in terms of net profit. Northwest Airlines recorded 1998's biggest net loss.
Source: Flight International
