In message , at 11:59:50 on
Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Recliner remarked:
It's an interesting table. If you look at all the merged airlines, I
suspect the rankings would change.

Lufthansa+Swiss+Austrian+Brussels+Eurowings (etc) would almost
certainly beat Emirates, and AF+KLM might well be bigger still. I
wonder what Iberia and bmi were?

Both presumably below 73k, or they'd be in the table. BMI's routes were
mainly Europe and Middle East, which are short on miles, and they tended
to use smaller planes (and codeshare with partners reduces BMI's metal's
mileage too).

I'm also surprised how
low Singapore Airlines comes. It pioneered the city state hub business
model that Emirates now uses, but has been comprehensively overtaken.

I thought that was Cathay Pacific (city hub in Hong Kong), bicbw.
--
Roland Perry