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 edit
Americas edit
Asia edit
Europe edit
Oceania edit
Largest low-cost carriers edit
This section needs to be updated.(December 2022) |
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 |
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1 | Ryanair | 101.4 | 86.4 | 81.4 | 79.6 | 76.4 | 72.7 | [1] [2] |
2 | easyJet1 | 69.9 | 65.3 | 61.4 | 59.2 | 55.5 | 49.7 | [3] |
3 | Air Asia Group2 | 50.6 | 45.6 | 42.6 | 34.1 | 29.9 | 25.7 | [4] [5] |
4 | Lion Air Group3 | – | 45.0 | 37.9 | 32.0 | 27.0 | 20.5 | [6] |
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] |
7 | Vueling | 24.8 | 21.5 | 17.2 | 14.8 | 12.3 | 11.0 | [8] |
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 | [9] |
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 | – | [10] |
12 | Spirit Airlines | 17.9 | 14.3 | 12.4 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.0 | [11] |
13 | SpiceJet | 11.7 | 12.6 | 11.7 | 9.5 | 8.6 | 6.6 | [12] |
14 | Transavia8 | 10.8 | 9.9 | 8.9 | - | - | - | [13] |
15 | Allegiant Air | 9.4 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 5.9 | [14] |
16 | flydubai | 9.0 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 5.1 | – | – | [15] |
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 | [16] |
20 | Jet2.com | 5.9 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.4 | [17] |
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 | [18] |
23 | Fastjet11 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | <0.1 | – | – | [19] |
- Notes
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- ^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 edit
Africa edit
America edit
- Canada
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- 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
- Mexico
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- 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
- United States
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- 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
Asia edit
- India
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- Go First
- JetKonnect (merged with Jet Airways)
- Jetlite (merged with Jet Airways)
- Kingfisher Red
- Paramount Airways
- Simplifly Deccan
- Japan
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- AirAsia Japan
- Air Next
- Link Airs
- Vanilla Air (merged with Peach Aviation)
- Philippines
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- Spirit of Manila Airlines
- Zest Airways (merged into Philippines AirAsia)
- Singapore
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- Tigerair (merged with Scoot)
- Valuair (acquired in 2005 by Jetstar Asia; dissolved in 2014)
- Sri Lanka
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- Mihin Lanka (merged with SriLankan Airlines)
Europe edit
- Belgium
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- Virgin Express (merged with SN Brussels Airlines to form Brussels Airlines)
- Germany
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- 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
- Romania
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- Blue Air (suspended)
- Carpatair (now operates as a regional airline)
- Fly Romania
Oceania edit
- Australia
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- 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
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- Freedom Air
- Kiwi Airlines
- Pacific Blue Airlines (now codeshares with Air New Zealand and is a full service brand — Virgin Australia)
See also edit
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Low-cost airlines.
References edit
- ^ Flybondi official website
- ^ "Indigo Partners acquires stake in Alas del Sur - report". ch-aviation. ch-aviation GmbH. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ^ Jet Smart official website
- ^ Calafia Airlines
- ^ Gamboa, Víctor; Villa y Caña, Pedro (26 December 2023). "Mexicana de Aviación vuelve a volar con viajes "más baratos" y equipaje de hasta 25 kilos sin costo". El Universal (in Spanish). Compañía Periodística Nacional. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ "Mexicana de Aviación will become the new regional, low-cost airline". The Yucutan Times. 11 August 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ InterCaribbean Airways
- ^ "Low Cost Cheap Flights to and from Forli Airport".
- ^ "Smartavia войдет в лето с 15 воздушными судами, три из которых Airbus A320neo". ATO. 17 April 2021.
- ^ Eastern Air Lines