List of low-cost airlines

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 Kenya Jambojet Fly540 Morocco Air Arabia Maroc

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

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

A Lion Air Boeing 737-900ER at Singapore Changi Airport in Singapore

China 9 Air China United Airlines 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 Japan AirAsia Japan Jetstar Japan Peach Skymark Airlines Solaseed Air Spring Airlines Japan StarFlyer Vanilla Air Kyrgyzstan Air Manas Malaysia AirAsia AirAsia X Malindo Air Firefly

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

Europe

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

Eurowings Airbus A320-200

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

Austria Niki Azerbaijan AZALJet Belgium Jetairfly Czech Republic SmartWings France French Blue Transavia France Germany Eurowings Germanwings Hungary Wizz Air Iceland WOW air Ireland Ryanair Italy Blue Panorama Airlines Latvia AirBaltic

Netherlands Transavia Norway Norwegian Air Shuttle Romania Blue Air Russia Pobeda Spain Iberia Express Volotea Vueling Switzerland easyJet Switzerland Turkey Pegasus Airlines United Kingdom EasyJet Flybe Jet2.com Monarch Airlines

Middle East

Israel Up Jordan Air Arabia Jordan Kuwait Jazeera Airways Saudi Arabia Flynas Flyadeal United Arab Emirates Air Arabia flydubai Yemen Felix Airways

North America

Southwest Airlines is the largest low-cost airline in North America.

Canada Air Canada rouge Sunwing Airlines WestJet El Salvador Veca Airlines Mexico Interjet Viva Aerobus Volaris

United States Allegiant Air Frontier Airlines JetBlue Southwest Airlines Spirit Airlines Sun Country Airlines

Oceania

Australia Jetstar Airways Tigerair Australia

South America

Brazil Azul Brazilian Airlines Gol Transportes Aéreos Chile Sky Airline Colombia EasyFly VivaColombia Wingo

List of largest low cost carriers

This is a List of largest low-cost carriers in the world. It is ranked by number of transported passengers displayed below in the 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	easyJet1	69.9	65.3	61.4	59.2	55.5	49.7	[4]
4	Air Asia Group 2	50.6	45.6	42.6	34.1	29.9	25.7	[5][6]
5	Lion Air Group 3	-	45.0	37.9	32.0	27.0	20.5	[7]
6	Gol Transportes Aéreos 4	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	Pegasus Airlines	22.3	19.7	16.9	13.6	11.3	8.6
11	WestJet	20.2	19.6	18.5	17.4	16.0	15.2	[13]
12	Wizz Air5	19.2	12.0	11.2	9.6	7.8	5.8	[14]
13	Cebu Pacific 6	18.4	16.9	14.4	12.3	10.5	-	[15]
14	Spirit Airlines	17.9	14.3	12.4	10.4	8.5	7.0	[16]
15	SpiceJet	11.7	12.6	11.7	9.5	8.6	6.6	[17]
16	Allegiant Air	9.4	8.0	7.1	6.6	6.1	5.9	[18]
17	flydubai	9.0	7.3	6.8	5.1	-	-	[19]
18	flybe	-	7.7	7.5	7.6	7.2	7.2	[20]
19	Monarch Airlines	-	7.0	6.8	6.3	5.9	5.8	[21]
20	Virgin America	7.0	6.5	6.3	6.2	-	-	[22]
21	AirArabia 7	-	6.8	6.1	5.3	4.7	4.5	[23]
22	Jet2.com	-	6.0	5.5	4.8	4.2	3.4	[24]
23	Tiger air	5.1	5.0	4.4	3.9	-	-	[25]
24	Mango	2.3	1.8	1.6	1.4	1.3	1.3	[26]
25	Fastjet 8	-	0.6	0.37	0.03	-	-	[27]

Notes

• ^1 Includes EasyJet Switzerland.
• ^2 Includes figures for AirAsia Philippines (includes AirAsia Zest), Indonesia AirAsia and Thai AirAsia.
• ^3 Includes figures for 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 figures for Cebgo
• ^7 Includes figures for Air Arabia Maroc, Air Arabia Egypt and Air Arabia Jordan.
• ^8 Includes figures for both Fastjet Tanzania and Fastjet Zimbabwe

Defunct low-cost carriers

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

Algeria Antinea Airlines Ecoair International Argentina LAPA Australia Air Australia Compass Airlines East-West Airlines Impulse Airlines (acquired by Qantas and rebranded as Jetstar) Sungold Airlines Virgin Blue (transitioned into a full-service airline, now known as Virgin Australia) Bahrain Bahrain Air Barbados REDjet Belgium Virgin Express (merged with SN Brussels Airlines to form Brussels Airlines) Brazil BRA Transportes Aéreos Canada Air Canada Tango Canada 3000 CanJet Greyhound Air Harmony Airways Jetsgo Vistajet Wardair Zip Zoom Airlines Cyprus Helios Airways 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) Ireland Jet Magic JetGreen Airways Italy Air One Air Service Plus Alpieagles Club Air MyAir Volare Airlines Japan Air Next AirAsia Japan (rebranded as Vanilla Air) Link Airs Kuwait Wataniya Airways 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) Lineas Aéreas Azteca SARO TAESA

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 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 Valuair (now JetStar Airways) Slovakia SkyEurope South Africa 1time Velvet Sky Skywise Airlines Sri Lanka Mihin Lanka 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 United States 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 Western Pacific Airlines Uruguay U Air Zimbabwe Fly Kumba

See also

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