List of low-cost airlines
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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
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Americas
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Oceania
Largest low-cost carriers
Template:Update section 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 | Template:Flagicon Ryanair | 101.4 | 86.4 | 81.4 | 79.6 | 76.4 | 72.7 | [1] [2] |
| 2 | Template:Flagicon easyJet{{#if:1|1|[3]}} | 69.9 | 65.3 | 61.4 | 59.2 | 55.5 | 49.7 | [4] |
| 3 | Template:Flagicon Air Asia Group{{#if:2|2|[5]}} | 50.6 | 45.6 | 42.6 | 34.1 | 29.9 | 25.7 | [6] [7] |
| 4 | Template:Flagicon Lion Air Group{{#if:3|3|[8]}} | – | 45.0 | 37.9 | 32.0 | 27.0 | 20.5 | [9] |
| 5 | Template:Flagicon Gol Transportes Aéreos | 27.1 | 25.7 | 21.0 | 15.0 | 13.6 | 10.9 | |
| 6 | Template:Flagicon Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA | 25.8 | 24.0 | 20.7 | 17.7 | 15.7 | 13.0 | [10] |
| 7 | Template:Flagicon Vueling | 24.8 | 21.5 | 17.2 | 14.8 | 12.3 | 11.0 | [11] |
| 8 | Template:Flagicon Pegasus Airlines | 22.3 | 19.7 | 16.9 | 13.6 | 11.3 | 8.6 | |
| 9 | Template:Flagicon Wizz Air{{#if:5|5|[12]}} | 19.2 | 12.0 | 11.2 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 5.8 | [13] |
| 10 | Template:Flagicon Jetstar{{#if:6|6|[14]}} | 18.9 | 17.1 | 15.2 | 10.5 | 9.7 | 8.0 | |
| 11 | Template:Flagicon Cebu Pacific{{#if:7|7|[15]}} | 18.4 | 16.9 | 14.4 | 12.3 | 10.5 | – | [16] |
| 12 | Template:Flagicon Spirit Airlines | 17.9 | 14.3 | 12.4 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.0 | [17] |
| 13 | Template:Flagicon SpiceJet | 11.7 | 12.6 | 11.7 | 9.5 | 8.6 | 6.6 | [18] |
| 14 | Template:Flagicon Transavia{{#if:8|8|[19]}} | 10.8 | 9.9 | 8.9 | - | - | - | [20] |
| 15 | Template:Flagicon Allegiant Air | 9.4 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 5.9 | [21] |
| 16 | Template:Flagicon flydubai | 9.0 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 5.1 | – | – | [22] |
| 17 | Template:Flagicon VietJet Air{{#if:9|9|[23]}} | 8.5 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 6.5 | 6.0 | – | |
| 18 | Template:Flagicon Spring Airlines | 7.9 | 7.6 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 5.3 | |
| 19 | Template:Flagicon AirArabia{{#if:10|10|[24]}} | – | 6.8 | 6.1 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 4.5 | [25] |
| 20 | Template:Flagicon Jet2.com | 5.9 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.4 | [26] |
| 21 | Template:Flagicon Nok Air | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 3.9 | |
| 22 | Template:Flagicon Mango | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | [27] |
| 23 | Template:Flagicon Fastjet{{#if:11|11|[28]}} | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | <0.1 | – | – | [29] |
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- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^8{{#if:| }} Includes Transavia France.
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^9{{#if:| }} Includes Thai Vietjet Air.
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^10{{#if:| }} Includes Air Arabia Maroc, Air Arabia Egypt and Air Arabia Jordan.
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^11{{#if:| }} Includes Fastjet Tanzania and Fastjet Zimbabwe.
Defunct low-cost carriers
Africa
Americas
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- 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
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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
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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)<ref>Eastern Air Lines</ref>
- 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
- Streamline Air
- Ted (operations folded into United Airlines)
- Tower Air
- ValuJet Airlines
- Vanguard Airlines
- Virgin America (merged with Alaska Airlines)
- Western Pacific Airlines
Asia
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- 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
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- Air Next
- AirAsia Japan
- Link Airs
- Vanilla Air (merged with Peach Aviation)
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- Jetstar Asia
- Tigerair (merged with Scoot)
- Valuair (acquired in 2005 by Jetstar Asia; dissolved in 2014)
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- Mihin Lanka (merged with SriLankan Airlines)
Europe
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- Virgin Express (merged with SN Brussels Airlines to form Brussels Airlines)
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- Air Berlin (became a full-service airline in 2010 and collapsed in 2017)
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- Germanwings (merged with Eurowings)
- HLX (merged with Hapagfly to Tuifly, city routes then sold to Air Berlin)
- OLT Express Germany
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- Bees Airlines
- Blue Air
- Carpatair (now operates as a regional airline)
- Fly Romania
Oceania
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- 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)
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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
References
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