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

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

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

Middle East

North America

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

Oceania

South America

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
2	Ryanair	101.4	86.4	81.4	79.6	76.4	72.7
3	easyJet1	69.9	65.3	61.4	59.2	55.5	49.7
4	Air Asia Group 2	50.6	45.6	42.6	34.1	29.9	25.7
5	Lion Air Group 3	-	45.0	37.9	32.0	27.0	20.5
6	Gol Transportes Aéreos 4	39.1	40.1	36.3	39.2	36.2	32.9
7	JetBlue	35.1	32.0	30.4	29.0	26.3	24.3
8	IndiGo	29.7	22.8	19.3	15.8	-	-
9	Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA	25.8	24.0	20.7	17.7	15.7	13.0
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
12	Wizz Air5	19.2	12.0	11.2	9.6	7.8	5.8
13	Cebu Pacific 6	18.4	16.9	14.4	12.3	10.5	-
14	Spirit Airlines	17.9	14.3	12.4	10.4	8.5	7.0
15	SpiceJet	11.7	12.6	11.7	9.5	8.6	6.6
16	Allegiant Air	9.4	8.0	7.1	6.6	6.1	5.9
17	flydubai	9.0	7.3	6.8	5.1	-	-
18	flybe	-	7.7	7.5	7.6	7.2	7.2
19	Monarch Airlines	-	7.0	6.8	6.3	5.9	5.8
20	Virgin America	7.0	6.5	6.3	6.2	-	-
21	AirArabia 7	-	6.8	6.1	5.3	4.7	4.5
22	Jet2.com	-	6.0	5.5	4.8	4.2	3.4
23	Tiger air	5.1	5.0	4.4	3.9	-	-
24	Mango	2.3	1.8	1.6	1.4	1.3	1.3
25	Fastjet 8	-	0.6	0.37	0.03	-	-

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

See also

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Low-cost airlines.

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

References