Deletion of List of largest airlines in Asia

Comment: Please see relevant comments in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of largest airlines in Oceania, to which this nomination is related to. A list of statistics, each entry of which is sourced, is not  nor . I would have expected
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:OR)

Comment: All the individual entries are sourced, and it isn't a |"Synthesis of published material serving to ''advance a position''" to rank them.  Also from  "Research that consists of collecting and organizing material from existing sources within the provisions of this and other content policies is encouraged: this is "source-based research," and it is fundamental to writing an encyclopedia."  I don't see how ranking airlines in size violates the spirit of  which is essentially an extension of 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:SYN||WP:OR||WP:OR||WP:NPOV)