List of low-cost airlines
The following is a list of low-cost carriers organised by home country. A low-cost carrier or low-cost airline (also known as a no-frills, discount or budget carrier or airline) is an airline that offers generally low fares in exchange for eliminating many traditional passenger services.
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Largest low-cost carriers
This is a list of largest low-cost carriers in the world, ranked by number of transported passengers, shown below in millions.
| Ranks | Airline / Holding | '15 | '14 | '13 | '12 | '11 | '10 | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryanair | 101.4 | 86.4 | 81.4 | 79.6 | 76.4 | 72.7 | |
| 2 | easyJet1 | 69.9 | 65.3 | 61.4 | 59.2 | 55.5 | 49.7 | |
| 3 | Air Asia Group2 | 50.6 | 45.6 | 42.6 | 34.1 | 29.9 | 25.7 | |
| 4 | Lion Air Group3 | – | 45.0 | 37.9 | 32.0 | 27.0 | 20.5 | |
| 5 | Gol Transportes Aéreos | 27.1 | 25.7 | 21.0 | 15.0 | 13.6 | 10.9 | |
| 6 | Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA | 25.8 | 24.0 | 20.7 | 17.7 | 15.7 | 13.0 | |
| 7 | Vueling | 24.8 | 21.5 | 17.2 | 14.8 | 12.3 | 11.0 | |
| 8 | Pegasus Airlines | 22.3 | 19.7 | 16.9 | 13.6 | 11.3 | 8.6 | |
| 9 | Wizz Air5 | 19.2 | 12.0 | 11.2 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 5.8 | |
| 10 | Jetstar6 | 18.9 | 17.1 | 15.2 | 10.5 | 9.7 | 8.0 | |
| 11 | Cebu Pacific7 | 18.4 | 16.9 | 14.4 | 12.3 | 10.5 | – | |
| 12 | Spirit Airlines | 17.9 | 14.3 | 12.4 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.0 | |
| 13 | SpiceJet | 11.7 | 12.6 | 11.7 | 9.5 | 8.6 | 6.6 | |
| 14 | Transavia8 | 10.8 | 9.9 | 8.9 | - | - | - | |
| 15 | Allegiant Air | 9.4 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 5.9 | |
| 16 | flydubai | 9.0 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 5.1 | – | – | |
| 17 | VietJet Air9 | 8.5 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 6.5 | 6.0 | – | |
| 18 | Spring Airlines | 7.9 | 7.6 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 5.3 | |
| 19 | AirArabia10 | – | 6.8 | 6.1 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 4.5 | |
| 20 | Jet2.com | 5.9 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.4 | |
| 21 | Nok Air | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 3.9 | |
| 22 | Mango | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |
| 23 | Fastjet11 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | <0.1 | – | – |
- Notes
- ^1 Includes EasyJet Switzerland.
- ^2 Includes AirAsia India, Airasia X, Indonesia Airasia, Philippines AirAsia, Thai AirAsia and Thai AirAsia X.
- ^3 Includes Batik Air, Wings Air, Batik Air Malaysia, Thai Lion Air, Super Air Jet, Lion BizJet (charter airline division) and Lion Parcel (cargo airline division).
- ^5 Includes Wizz Air Abu Dhabi and Wizz Air UK.
- ^6 Includes Jetstar Asia, Jetstar Japan and Jetstar Pacific.
- ^7 Includes Cebgo.
- ^8 Includes Transavia France.
- ^9 Includes Thai Vietjet Air.
- ^10 Includes Air Arabia Maroc, Air Arabia Egypt and Air Arabia Jordan.
- ^11 Includes Fastjet Tanzania and Fastjet Zimbabwe.
Defunct low-cost carriers
Africa
America
- Argentina
- LASA Líneas Aéreas
- Norwegian Air Argentina
- Sol Líneas Aéreas
- Barbados
- Brazil
- Canada
- Air Canada Tango
- Canada 3000
- CanJet
- Canada Jetlines
- Greyhound Air
- Harmony Airways
- Jetsgo
- Lynx Air
- Swoop (re-integrated into WestJet)
- Vistajet
- Wardair
- WestJet (transitioned to full-service carrier)
- Zip
- Zoom Airlines
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- Mexico
- Aero California
- Aladia
- Aviacsa
- Avolar
- Click Mexicana (until 2008; Click was rebranded MexicanaClick and was no longer a low-cost airline)
- Interjet
- Líneas Aéreas Azteca
- SARO
- TAESA Lineas Aéreas
- Peru
- United States
- Air Florida
- AirTran Airways (acquired by Southwest Airlines)
- America West Airlines (merged into US Airways
- ATA Airlines
- Braniff (1991–1992)
- Eastern Air Lines (2015)[10]
- Hooters Air
- Independence Air
- MetroJet
- Midway Airlines
- National Airlines
- Pacific Southwest Airlines
- People Express
- Safe Air
- Skybus Airlines
- SkyValue
- Song (operations folded into Delta Air Lines)
- Southeast Airlines
- Streamline Air
- Ted (operations folded into United Airlines)
- Tower Air
- ValuJet Airlines
- Vanguard Airlines
- Virgin America (merged with Alaska Airlines)
- Western Pacific Airlines
- Uruguay
Asia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Georgia
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia
- India
- Go First
- JetKonnect (merged with Jet Airways)
- Jetlite (merged with Jet Airways)
- Kingfisher Red
- Paramount Airways
- Simplifly Deccan
- Israel
- Japan
- AirAsia Japan
- Air Next
- Link Airs
- Vanilla Air (merged with Peach Aviation)
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Macau
- Malaysia
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Spirit of Manila Airlines
- Zest Airways (merged into Philippines AirAsia)
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Tigerair (merged with Scoot)
- Valuair (acquired in 2005 by Jetstar Asia; dissolved in 2014)
- Republic of Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Mihin Lanka (merged with SriLankan Airlines)
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- United Arab Emirates
Europe
- Albania
- Austria
- Belgium
- Virgin Express (merged with SN Brussels Airlines to form Brussels Airlines)
- Bulgaria
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Blue Air Moravia
- Denmark
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Air Berlin (became a full-service airline in 2010 and collapsed in 2017)
- DBA
- Germanwings (merged with Eurowings)
- HLX (merged with Hapagfly to Tuifly, city routes then sold to Air Berlin)
- OLT Express Germany
- Greece
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Romania
- Blue Air (suspended)
- Carpatair (now operates as a regional airline)
- Fly Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Oceania
- Australia
- Air Australia
- Compass Airlines
- East-West Airlines
- Impulse Airlines (acquired by Qantas and rebranded as Jetstar and QantasLink)
- Tigerair Australia
- Virgin Blue (transitioned into a full-service airline in 2011 and renamed Virgin Australia)
- New Zealand
- Freedom Air
- Kiwi Airlines
- Pacific Blue Airlines (now codeshares with Air New Zealand and is a full service brand — Virgin Australia)
See also
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Low-cost airlines.
References
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- Jet Smart official website
- Calafia Airlines
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- InterCaribbean Airways
- "Low Cost Cheap Flights to and from Forli Airport".
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- Eastern Air Lines
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