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Kingfisher Airlines
Kingfisher Airlines Limited was an Indian airline based in Bengaluru, founded by Vijay Mallya's United Breweries group, which operated from 2005 until its license was suspended in 2012.
KLM Cityhopper
KLM Cityhopper is the regional airline of the Dutch carrier KLM, based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Formed in 1991, it feeds European passengers into KLM's intercontinental hub.
Korean Air (대한항공)
Korean Air (대한항공), legally Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd., is South Korea's flag carrier, hubbed at Incheon and parent of Asiana Airlines since December 2024.
Kuwait Airways (الخطوط الجوية الكويتية)
Kuwait Airways (الخطوط الجوية الكويتية) is the state-owned national flag carrier of Kuwait, founded in 1954, based at Kuwait International Airport, and serving destinations across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
Lao Airlines
Lao Airlines (การบินลาว), formerly Lao Aviation, is the national airline of Laos. Founded in 1976, it flies Airbus A320s and ATR 72s to ten international and seven domestic destinations.
Largest airlines in the world
The largest airlines in the world are ranked by passengers, capacity, fleet, or revenue; in 2024 American Airlines led in passengers and Delta in revenue.
LATAM Airlines Group
LATAM Airlines Group S.A. is a Chilean airline holding company formed in 2012 through the merger of LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines; it is South America's largest airline group.
Lauda (airline)
Lauda, also known as Laudamotion or LaudaMotion, is a European low-cost airline founded by Niki Lauda in 2018, sold to Ryanair in 2018, and operating Airbus A320 aircraft for the Ryanair Group.
Lauda Air
Lauda Air was an Austrian airline founded in 1979 by Formula 1 champion Niki Lauda, absorbed by Austrian Airlines and retired as a brand in 2013.
LEAV Aviation
LEAV Aviation is a German charter and ACMI airline headquartered in Cologne, founded in 2020, which operates Airbus A320-200 aircraft on wet-lease contracts and scheduled leisure flights under the IATA code KK.
Liat Air
Liat Air, also known as LIAT20, is a regional airline based in Antigua that flies routes across the Eastern Caribbean. It began flying in 2024.
Lion Air
Lion Air, also known as PT Lion Mentari Airlines, is an Indonesian private low-cost airline founded in Jakarta in 1999 that leads the domestic market with about 40% share.
List of Airbus A380 operators
The list of Airbus A380 operators covers the 14 airline customers of the largest passenger airliner since 2007; ten airlines flew it in 2026, led by Emirates with 123 aircraft.
List of airlines by countries served
A list of airlines by the number of countries they serve, compiled from airline announcements, civil aviation registries, and commercial schedule databases rather than any official ranking.
List of airlines of Europe
The list of airlines of Europe covers air carriers certificated to operate in European countries, from low-cost carriers like Ryanair and easyJet to legacy groups like Lufthansa Group.
List of busiest passenger flight routes
The list of busiest passenger flight routes ranks airport pairs by scheduled seats or carried passengers in OAG's annual report; in 2025 Jeju–Seoul Gimpo led, with Hong Kong–Taipei the busiest international route.
List of low-cost airlines
The list of low-cost airlines catalogs the world's budget carriers, or low-cost carriers, by region, explaining their business model and ranking Ryanair, Southwest, and IndiGo as the largest in 2024.
List of Southwest Airlines destinations
The list of Southwest Airlines destinations covers the 117 airports served by the Dallas-based carrier as of December 31, 2025, in the US, Puerto Rico, and ten near-international countries.
Load factor (aeronautics)
Load factor in aeronautics is the percentage of available airline seating capacity that is actually sold and flown, the industry's standard capacity utilization measure, reported monthly and watched because an empty seat flown is unrecoverable revenue.
Loganair
Loganair is a Scottish regional airline, established in 1962 and headquartered at Glasgow Airport, operating scheduled passenger and cargo flights across the UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia.
Longest flights
The longest flights are scheduled nonstop airline services measured by great-circle distance, led since 2020 by Singapore Airlines' New York JFK–Singapore route at roughly 15,350 km and 18 hours 40 minutes.
Longitudinal separation
Longitudinal separation is the air traffic control method of spacing aircraft along the same track by time or distance, used mainly in oceanic airspace without radar surveillance.
LOT Polish Airlines
LOT Polish Airlines, also known as Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT, is Poland's state-owned flag carrier, founded in 1928 and based at Warsaw Chopin Airport in Warsaw.
Low-cost carrier
A low-cost carrier, also called a budget or discount airline, offers lower fares by cutting included services and charging for extras, pioneered by Southwest Airlines in the 1970s.
Lufthansa
Lufthansa, formally Deutsche Lufthansa AG, is Germany's largest airline, carrying 65.7 million passengers in 2025 from hubs at Frankfurt and Munich as the core of a global aviation group.
Lufthansa Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo is the airfreight subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, formed in 1994, flying Boeing 777F freighters and selling belly capacity to about 350 destinations.
Lufthansa Group
The Lufthansa Group is a German aviation group based in Cologne and Frankfurt, Europe's largest and the world's fourth largest airline group by traffic in 2025.
Lufthansa Technik
Lufthansa Technik AG is a German provider of maintenance, repair, and overhaul services for commercial aircraft, headquartered in Hamburg and wholly owned by the Lufthansa Group since 1994.
Luxair
Luxair, legally Société Luxembourgeoise de Navigation Aérienne, is the national airline of Luxembourg. Founded in 1961, it flies from Luxembourg Airport and carried over 2.6 million passengers in 2024.
Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre
The Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) is a non-profit air navigation provider run by EUROCONTROL, controlling upper airspace over Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands since 1972.