List of low-cost airlines

The following is a list of low-cost airlines organised by home country. A low-cost airline or low-cost carrier (also known as a discount or budget carrier or airline) is an airline that offers generally low fares in exchange for eliminating many traditional passenger services.

Africa

Air Arabia Egypt Air Cairo

Fly540 Jambojet

Air Arabia Maroc

Green Africa Airways

Fastjet FlySafair

Fastjet Zimbabwe

Americas

FlybondiFlybondi official website JetSmart Argentina

Gol Transportes Aéreos Azul Linhas Aéreas

Air Canada Rouge Flair Airlines

JetSmartJet Smart official website Sky Airline

Clic Air Wingo

Volaris Costa Rica

AraJet RED Air

Volaris El Salvador

Mexicana de Aviación Viva Volaris

Wingo Panama

Paranair

JetSmart Perú Sky Airline Peru

InterCaribbean AirwaysInterCaribbean Airways

Allegiant Air Avelo Airlines Breeze Airways Frontier Airlines JetBlue Airways Southwest Airlines Sun Country Airlines

Asia

FlyOne Armenia

AirAsia Cambodia Cambodia Airways

9 Air Beijing Capital Airlines China United Airlines Colorful Guizhou Airlines Jiangxi Air Lucky Air Ruili Airlines Spring Airlines Urumqi Air West Air

Greater Bay Airlines HK Express

Air India Express Akasa Air IndiGo SpiceJet

Citilink Indonesia AirAsia Lion Air Super Air Jet Wings Air

Air1Air

Jetstar Japan Peach Aviation Spring Airlines Japan Zipair Tokyo

FlyArystan VietJet Air Qazaqstan

Jazeera Airways

AirAsia AirAsia X Firefly

SalamAir

Air Sial Airblue Fly Jinnah Serene Air

Cebgo Cebu Pacific PAL Express Philippines AirAsia Royal Air Philippines Sky Pasada SkyJet Airlines

Flyadeal Flynas

Scoot

FitsAir

Aero K Air Busan Air Premia Air Seoul Eastar Jet Jeju Air Jin Air Parata Air Trinity Airways

Tigerair Taiwan

Nok Air Thai AirAsia Thai AirAsia X Thai Lion Air Thai Summer Airways Thai VietJet Air

AJet Pegasus Airlines

Air Arabia Air Arabia Abu Dhabi flydubai

FlyOne Asia

Pacific Airlines VietJet Air Vietravel Airlines

Europe

EasyJet Europe

TUI fly Belgium

Smartwings

TUI fly Nordic

TUI fly Nordic

French Bee Transavia France

Eurowings TUI fly Deutschland

Wizz Air Smartwings Hungary

Ryanair

Aeroitalia Neos

Eurowings Europe Lauda Europe Malta Air Wizz Air Malta

FlyOne HiSky

Transavia TUI fly Netherlands

Norse Atlantic Airways Norwegian Air Shuttle TUI fly Nordic

Buzz Smartwings Poland

FlyOne Airline HiSky Europe

Azimuth Pobeda Smartavia

Air Europa Express Iberia Express Iberojet Level Volotea Vueling

Norwegian Air Sweden TUI fly Nordic

EasyJet Switzerland

SkyUp

Smartwings Slovakia

EasyJet Jet2.com Norse Atlantic UK Ryanair UK TUI Airways Wizz Air UK

Oceania

Jetstar

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 '25 '24 '23 '22 '21 '20 '19 '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 '13 '12 '11 '10 Sources 1 Ryanair 206.6 197.1 181.7 160.4 72.5 52.1 152.4 139.1 128.8 116.8 101.4 86.4 81.4 79.6 76.4 72.7 2 easyJet 93.4 89.7 82.8 69.7 20.4 48.1 96.1 88.5 80.2 73.1 69.9 65.3 61.4 59.2 55.5 49.7 3 Air Asia Group – – – 34.2 14.5 23.0 83.5 73.0 63.3 56.6 50.6 45.6 42.6 34.1 29.9 25.7 4 Lion Air Group – 16.0 18.7 18.9 9.9 12.7 25.5 36.4 35.4 32.4 – 45.0 37.9 32.0 27.0 20.5 5 Gol Transportes Aéreos – – 30.2 27.3 18.8 16.7 36.4 33.4 32.5 30.7 27.1 25.7 21.0 15.0 13.6 10.9 6 Norwegian Air Shuttle 27.3 22.6 20.6 17.8 3.1 6.8 36.3 37.3 33.2 29.3 25.8 24.0 20.7 17.7 15.7 13.0 7 Vueling – – 36.7 31.9 14.3 9.6 34.5 32.7 29.6 27.8 24.8 21.5 17.2 14.8 12.3 11.0 8 Pegasus Airlines – – 31.9 26.9 20.1 14.7 30.8 30.0 27.8 24.1 22.3 19.7 16.9 13.6 11.3 8.6 9 Wizz Air 69.7 63.4 62.0 51.1 27.1 10.2 16.7 39.8 33.8 28.3 22.8 19.2 12.0 11.2 9.6 7.8 5.8 10 Jetstar – – – – – – – – – – 18.9 17.1 15.2 10.5 9.7 8.0 11 Cebu Pacific – – – – – – 22.5 20.3 19.7 19.1 18.4 16.9 14.4 12.3 10.5 – 12 Spirit Airlines – – – – – – 34.5 29.3 24.1 21.6 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 Transavia – – 21.4 – – – 16.6 15.8 14.8 13.3 10.8 9.9 8.9 - - - 15 Allegiant Air – – – – – – – – – – 9.4 8.0 7.1 6.6 6.1 5.9 16 flydubai – 13.8 10.6 – – – – – 10.9 10.4 9.0 7.3 6.8 5.1 – – 17 VietJet Air – – – – – – – – – – 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 AirArabia – – – – – – – – – – – 6.8 6.1 5.3 4.7 4.5 20 Jet2.com – – – – – – 14.4 12.2 9.7 7.1 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 Fastjet – – – – – – – – – – 0.8 0.6 0.4 <0.1 – – Notes Includes EasyJet Switzerland. Includes AirAsia X, Indonesia AirAsia, Philippines AirAsia, Thai AirAsia and Thai AirAsia X. 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). Includes Wizz Air Abu Dhabi and Wizz Air UK. Includes Jetstar Asia, Jetstar Japan and Jetstar Pacific. Includes Cebgo. Includes Transavia France. Includes Thai Vietjet Air. Includes Air Arabia Maroc, Air Arabia Egypt and Air Arabia Jordan. Includes Fastjet Tanzania and Fastjet Zimbabwe.

Defunct low-cost carriers

Africa

Antinea Airlines Ecoair International

FlyEgypt

Atlas Blue Jet4you

Fastjet Mozambique

1time Kulula Mango SA Express Skywise Airlines Velvet Sky

Fastjet Tanzania

Zimbabwe flyafrica.com

Americas

Norwegian Air Argentina Sol Líneas Aéreas

REDjet

BRA Transportes Aéreos OceanAir WebJet Linhas Aéreas

Air Canada Tango Canada 3000 Canada Jetlines CanJet Greyhound Air Harmony Airways Jetsgo Lynx Air Swoop (re-integrated into WestJet) Sunwing Airlines (merged into WestJet) Vistajet Wardair WestJet (transitioned to full-service carrier) Zip Zoom Airlines

Latin American Wings

AIRES Intercontinental de Aviación Viva Air Colombia

Aeropostal Alas de Centroamerica

EasySky

Icaro Air

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

Viva Air Perú

Air Florida AirTran Airways (acquired by Southwest Airlines) America West Airlines (merged into US Airways) ATA Airlines Braniff (1991–1992) Eastern Air Lines (2015)Eastern Air Lines Hooters Air Independence Air JetTrain MetroJet Midway Airlines National Airlines Pacific Southwest Airlines People Express Safe Air Skybus Airlines SkyValue Song (operations folded into Delta Air Lines) Southeast Airlines Spirit Airlines Streamline Air Ted (operations folded into United Airlines) Tower Air ValuJet Airlines Vanguard Airlines Virgin America (merged with Alaska Airlines) Western Pacific Airlines

U Air

Asia

Fly Arna

AZALJet Buta Airways

Bahrain Air

Flyvista

Oasis Hong Kong Airlines

Air Asia India (merged with Air India Express) Go First JetKonnect (merged with Jet Airways) Jetlite (merged with Jet Airways) Kingfisher Red Paramount Airways Simplifly Deccan

Adam Air Bali Air Batavia Air Indonesia AirAsia X

Up

Air Next AirAsia Japan Link Airs JAL Express Vanilla Air (merged with Peach Aviation)

Air Arabia Jordan

Wataniya Airways

Air Manas

Viva Macau

MYAirline Rayani Air

Cosmic Air Fly Yeti

Bhoja Air Rayyan Air Shaheen Air

Spirit of Manila Airlines Zest Airways (merged into Philippines AirAsia)

Air Pohang T'way Air (Rebranded as Trinity Airways)

Sama

Jetstar Asia Tigerair (merged with Scoot) Valuair (acquired in 2005 by Jetstar Asia; dissolved in 2014)

Mihin Lanka (merged with SriLankan Airlines)

U-Land Airlines V Air

NokScoot One-Two-GO Airlines Solar Air

Kang Pacific Airlines Wizz Air Abu Dhabi

HumoAir

Europe

Albatros Airways Belle Air

Laudamotion Level Europe Niki

Virgin Express (merged with SN Brussels Airlines to form Brussels Airlines)

Eurocypria Helios Airways

Blue Air Moravia

Sterling Airlines Transavia Denmark

FaroeJet

Flying Finn

Air Turquoise Flywest

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

Ellinair Hellas Jet Macedonian Airlines

Iceland Express Loftleiðir Play WOW Air

Norwegian Air International

Air One Air Service Plus Alpieagles Blu-express Club Air MyAir Volare Airlines

V Bird

Color Air Feel Air Flyr Norwegian Long Haul

Air Polonia Centralwings Direct Fly GetJet OLT Express Poland

Bees Airlines Blue Air Carpatair (now operates as a regional airline) Fly Romania

Avianova Dobrolet Sky Express

Centavia

SkyEurope

Flyme FlyNordic Snowflake

Bees Airline Wizz Air Ukraine

AB Airlines Air Scotland bmibaby Court Line Debonair Duo Airways Flybe flyglobespan Go Laker Airways Monarch Airlines Norwegian Air UK

Oceania

Air Australia Bonza 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)

Freedom Air Kiwi Airlines Pacific Blue Airlines (now codeshares with Air New Zealand and is a full service brand — Virgin Australia)

See also

Flag carrier List of regional airlines Lists of airlines

References