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
Americas
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- Flybondi<ref>Flybondi official website</ref>
- JetSmart Argentina<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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- Mexicana de Aviación<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Viva
- Volaris
Asia
Europe
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- Aeroitalia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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- Pobeda
- Smartavia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Azimuth
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.
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- Template:Note Includes EasyJet Switzerland.
- Template:Note Includes AirAsia X, Indonesia AirAsia, Philippines AirAsia, Thai AirAsia and Thai AirAsia X.
- Template:Note 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).
- Template:Note Includes Wizz Air Abu Dhabi and Wizz Air UK.
- Template:Note Includes Jetstar Asia, Jetstar Japan and Jetstar Pacific.
- Template:Note Includes Cebgo.
- Template:Note Includes Transavia France.
- Template:Note Includes Thai Vietjet Air.
- Template:Note Includes Air Arabia Maroc, Air Arabia Egypt and Air Arabia Jordan.
- Template:Note 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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