List of low-cost airlines

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The following is a list of low-cost carriers organized 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. Regional airlines, which may compete with low-cost airlines on some routes, are listed at list of regional airlines.

Africa

Mango Boeing 737

Egypt Air Arabia Egypt Air Cairo Nile Air Kenya Jambojet Fly540 Morocco Air Arabia Maroc Mozambique Fastjet Mozambique

South Africa FlySafair kulula.com Mango Tanzania Fastjet Tanzania Zimbabwe Fastjet Zimbabwe

Americas

Southwest Airlines is the largest low-cost airline in the world.

Argentina Flybondi Norwegian Air Argentina Brazil Azul Brazilian Airlines Gol Transportes Aéreos Canada Air Canada Rouge Air Transat Canada Jetlines (planned) Flair Airlines Sunwing Airlines Swoop WestJet (formerly) Chile Sky Airline JetSmart Colombia EasyFly VivaColombia Wingo

Costa Rica Volaris Costa Rica Dominican Republic Flycana Honduras EasySky Mexico Interjet VivaAerobus Volaris Peru Viva Air Peru United States Allegiant Air Frontier Airlines JetBlue Southwest Airlines Spirit Airlines Sun Country Airlines

Asia

A Jetstar Asia Airways A320 at Kansai International Airport in Osaka

An AirAsia Airbus A320 aircraft in Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The airline is the largest low-cost carrier in the continent.

A Cebu Pacific taxiing at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila

HK Express Airbus A320-200

Cambodia Lanmei Airlines China 9 Air Beijing Capital Airlines Colorful Guizhou Airlines China United Airlines Jiangxi Air Lucky Air Ruili Airlines Spring Airlines Urumqi Air West Air Hong Kong HK Express India Air India Express AirAsia India GoAir IndiGo SpiceJet Indonesia Citilink Lion Air Indonesia AirAsia Indonesia AirAsia X Wings Air Japan AirAsia Japan Jetstar Japan Peach Skymark Airlines Solaseed Air Spring Airlines Japan Vanilla Air Kyrgyzstan Air Manas

Malaysia AirAsia AirAsia X Pakistan Airblue Philippines Cebgo Cebu Pacific Philippines AirAsia Singapore Jetstar Asia Airways Scoot South Korea Air Busan Air Pohang Air Seoul Eastar Jet Jeju Air Jin Air T'way Air Taiwan Tigerair Taiwan Thailand Nok Air NokScoot Thai AirAsia Thai AirAsia X Thai Lion Air Thai Vietjet Air Vietnam Jetstar Pacific Airlines VietJet Air

Middle East

Flydubai Boeing 737-800 approaching Dubai

Jordan Air Arabia Jordan Oman Salam Air

Saudi Arabia Flynas Flyadeal United Arab Emirates Air Arabia flydubai

Europe

A Ryanair Boeing 737-800. Ryanair is the largest low-cost airline in Europe and second largest in the world.

Eurowings Airbus A320-200

An Airbus A319 of easyJet, the largest budget airline in the United Kingdom

WOW air Airbus A321-200

Austria easyJet Europe Eurowings Europe Laudamotion Azerbaijan Buta Airways Czech Republic SmartWings France French Bee Transavia France Germany Eurowings Hungary Wizz Air Iceland WOW air Ireland Ryanair Norwegian Air International Italy Blue Panorama Airlines Latvia AirBaltic

Moldova FlyOne Netherlands Transavia Norway Norwegian Air Shuttle Romania Blue Air Russia Pobeda Spain Iberia Express Level Volotea Vueling Switzerland easyJet Switzerland Turkey Onur Air Pegasus Airlines United Kingdom EasyJet Flybe Jet2.com Norwegian Air UK Wizz Air UK

Oceania

Australia Jetstar Airways Tigerair Australia

List of 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	Southwest Airlines	144.6	135.8	133.2	134.0	135.2	106.2	[1]
2	Ryanair	101.4	86.4	81.4	79.6	76.4	72.7	[2][3]
3	easyJet	69.9	65.3	61.4	59.2	55.5	49.7	[4]
4	Air Asia Group	50.6	45.6	42.6	34.1	29.9	25.7	[5][6]
5	Lion Air Group	–	45.0	37.9	32.0	27.0	20.5	[7]
6	Gol Transportes Aéreos	39.1	40.1	36.3	39.2	36.2	32.9	[8]
7	JetBlue	35.1	32.0	30.4	29.0	26.3	24.3	[9]
8	IndiGo	29.7	22.8	19.3	15.8	–	–	[10][11]
9	Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA	25.8	24.0	20.7	17.7	15.7	13.0	[12]
10	Vueling	24.8	21.5	17.2	14.8	12.3	11.0	[13]
11	Pegasus Airlines	22.3	19.7	16.9	13.6	11.3	8.6
12	WestJet	20.2	19.6	18.5	17.4	16.0	15.2	[14]
13	Wizz Air	19.2	12.0	11.2	9.6	7.8	5.8	[15]
14	Cebu Pacific	18.4	16.9	14.4	12.3	10.5	–	[16]
15	Spirit Airlines	17.9	14.3	12.4	10.4	8.5	7.0	[17]
16	SpiceJet	11.7	12.6	11.7	9.5	8.6	6.6	[18]
17	Allegiant Air	9.4	8.0	7.1	6.6	6.1	5.9	[19]
18	flydubai	9.0	7.3	6.8	5.1	–	–	[20]
19	flybe	–	7.7	7.5	7.6	7.2	7.2	[21]
20	Virgin America	7.0	6.5	6.3	6.2	–	–	[22]
21	AirArabia	–	6.8	6.1	5.3	4.7	4.5	[23]
22	Jet2.com	5.9	6.0	5.5	4.8	4.2	3.4	[24]
23	Mango	2.3	1.8	1.6	1.4	1.3	1.3	[25]
24	Fastjet	0.8	0.6	0.4	<0.1	–	–	[26]

Notes

• ^1 Includes EasyJet Switzerland.
• ^2 Includes AirAsia India, AirAsia Japan, Airasia X, Indonesia Airasia, Indonesia AirAsia X, Philippines AirAsia, Thai AirAsia and Thai AirAsia X.
• ^3 Includes Batik Air, Wings Air, Malindo Air and Thai Lion Air.
• ^4 Includes Gol Transportes Aéreos and VARIG.
• ^5 Includes Wizz Air Ukraine and Wizz Air Serbia.
• ^6 Includes Cebgo.
• ^7 Includes Air Arabia Maroc, Air Arabia Egypt and Air Arabia Jordan.
• ^8 Includes Fastjet Tanzania and Fastjet Zimbabwe.

Defunct low-cost carriers

Adam Air crash At Juanda International Airport, flight licenses revoked due to accidents

Albania Belle Air Algeria Antinea Airlines Ecoair International Australia Air Australia Compass Airlines East-West Airlines Impulse Airlines (acquired by Qantas and rebranded as Jetstar and QantasLink) Virgin Blue (transitioned into a full-service airline, now known as Virgin Australia) Austria Niki Bahrain Bahrain Air Barbados REDjet Belgium Virgin Express (merged with SN Brussels Airlines to form Brussels Airlines) Bulgaria Wizz Air Bulgaria Brazil BRA Transportes Aéreos WebJet Linhas Aéreas Chile Latin American Wings Canada Air Canada Tango Canada 3000 CanJet Greyhound Air Harmony Airways Jetsgo Vistajet Wardair Zip Zoom Airlines Colombia Aires Intercontinental Cyprus Helios Airways Czech Republic Blue Air Moravia Denmark Sterling Airlines Transavia.com Denmark Ecuador Icaro Air Faroe Islands FaroeJet Finland Flying Finn France Air Turquoise Flywest Georgia Flyvista Germany Air Berlin (changed to a full-cost carrier in 2010) DBA Germanwings (merged with Eurowings) HLX (merged with Hapagfly to Tuifly, cityroutes then sold to Air Berlin) OLT Express Germany Hong Kong Jetstar Hong Kong Oasis Hong Kong Airlines Iceland Iceland Express Indonesia Adam Air Bali Air Batavia Air India Kingfisher Airlines Jetlite (Merged with Jet Airways) Simplifly Deccan Paramount Airways JetKonnect (Merged with Jet Airways) Israel Up Italy Air One Air Service Plus Alpieagles Club Air MyAir Volare Airlines Japan Air Next Link Airs Lithuania Star1 Airlines Macau Viva Macau Mexico Aero California Aladia Aviacsa Avolar Click Mexicana (until 2008; Click was rebranded MexicanaClick and is no longer a low-cost airline) Líneas Aéreas Azteca SARO TAESA Lineas Aéreas

Morocco Atlas Blue Jet4you Nepal Cosmic Air Fly Yeti Netherlands V Bird New Zealand Freedom Air Kiwi Airlines Pacific Blue (now codeshares with Air New Zealand and is a full service brand, Virgin Australia) Norway Color Air Feel Air Pakistan Rayyan Air Bhoja Air Philippines AirAsia Zest (now operates as a Philippines Airasia) Spirit of Manila Airlines Poland Air Polonia Centralwings Direct Fly GetJet OLT Express Poland Romania Carpatair (now operates as a regional airline) Fly Romania Russia Avianova Dobrolet Sky Express Saudi Arabia Sama Serbia Centavia Singapore Tigerair (merged with Scoot) Valuair (now JetStar Airways) Slovakia SkyEurope South Africa 1time Velvet Sky Skywise Airlines Sri Lanka Mihin Lanka (merged with SriLankan Airlines) Sweden Flyme FlyNordic Snowflake Taiwan U-Land Airlines V Air Thailand One-Two-GO Airlines Solar Air Ukraine Wizz Air Ukraine United Arab Emirates Kang Pacific Airlines United Kingdom Air Scotland bmibaby Debonair Duo Airways flyglobespan Go Laker Airways Monarch Airlines United States Air Florida AirTran Airways ATA Airlines Hooters Air Independence Air MetroJet Midway Airlines National Airlines Pacific Southwest Airlines Pearl Air People Express Safe Air Skybus Airlines SkyValue Song Airline Southeast Airlines Streamline Air Tower Air ValuJet Airlines Vanguard Airlines Virgin America Western Pacific Airlines Uruguay U Air Zimbabwe Zimbabwe flyafrica.com

See also

• Flag carrier
• List of regional airlines
• Lists of airlines