List of low-cost airlines

Last updated February 18, 2025

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.

Africa

Egypt

Kenya

Morocco

Air Arabia Maroc

Nigeria

Green Africa Airways

South Africa

Zimbabwe

Fastjet Zimbabwe

Asia

Afghanistan

Kam Air

Armenia

FlyOne Armenia

Bangladesh

Fly Dhaka Airlines

FlyArystan

Kuwait

Jazeera Airways

Malaysia

Nepal

Buddha Air

Oman

Salam Air

Tigerair Taiwan

Thailand

United Arab Emirates

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Europe

Oceania

Australia

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	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10
1	Ryanair	101.4	86.4	81.4	79.6	76.4	72.7
2	easyJet ¹	69.9	65.3	61.4	59.2	55.5	49.7
3	Air Asia Group²	50.6	45.6	42.6	34.1	29.9	25.7
4	Lion Air Group³	–	45.0	37.9	32.0	27.0	20.5
5	Gol Transportes Aéreos	27.1	25.7	21.0	15.0	13.6	10.9
6	Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA	25.8	24.0	20.7	17.7	15.7	13.0
7	Vueling	24.8	21.5	17.2	14.8	12.3	11.0
8	Pegasus Airlines	22.3	19.7	16.9	13.6	11.3	8.6
9	Wizz Air ⁵	19.2	12.0	11.2	9.6	7.8	5.8
10	Jetstar ⁶	18.9	17.1	15.2	10.5	9.7	8.0
11	Cebu Pacific ⁷	18.4	16.9	14.4	12.3	10.5	–
12	Spirit Airlines	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 ⁸	10.8	9.9	8.9	-	-	-
15	Allegiant Air	9.4	8.0	7.1	6.6	6.1	5.9
16	flydubai	9.0	7.3	6.8	5.1	–	–
17	VietJet Air ⁹	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 ¹⁰	–	6.8	6.1	5.3	4.7	4.5
20	Jet2.com	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 ¹¹	0.8	0.6	0.4	<0.1	–	–

Notes

^1 Includes EasyJet Switzerland.
^2 Includes AirAsia India, Airasia X, Indonesia Airasia, Philippines AirAsia, Thai AirAsia and Thai AirAsia X.
^3 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).
^5 Includes Wizz Air Abu Dhabi and Wizz Air UK.
^6 Includes Jetstar Asia, Jetstar Japan and Jetstar Pacific.
^7 Includes Cebgo.
^8 Includes Transavia France.
^9 Includes Thai Vietjet Air.
^10 Includes Air Arabia Maroc, Air Arabia Egypt and Air Arabia Jordan.
^11 Includes Fastjet Tanzania and Fastjet Zimbabwe.

Defunct low-cost carriers

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

Sri Lanka

Mihin Lanka (merged with SriLankan Airlines)

Taiwan

Thailand

United Arab Emirates

Kang Pacific Airlines

Europe

Albania

Austria

Belgium

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

Bulgaria

Wizz Air Bulgaria

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Blue Air Moravia

Denmark

Faroe Islands

FaroeJet

Finland

Flying Finn

France

Germany

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

Greece

Iceland

Ireland

Norwegian Air International

Italy

Netherlands

V Bird

Norway

Poland

Romania

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

Russia

Serbia

Centavia

Slovakia

SkyEurope

Spain

Spanair

Sweden

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Oceania

Australia

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)

New Zealand

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

References

↑ Flybondi official website
↑ "Indigo Partners acquires stake in Alas del Sur - report". ch-aviation. ch-aviation GmbH. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
↑ Jet Smart official website
↑ Gamboa, Víctor; Villa y Caña, Pedro (26 December 2023). "Mexicana de Aviación vuelve a volar con viajes "más baratos" y equipaje de hasta 25 kilos sin costo". El Universal (in Spanish). Compañía Periodística Nacional. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
↑ "Mexicana de Aviación will become the new regional, low-cost airline". The Yucutan Times. 11 August 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
↑ InterCaribbean Airways
↑ "Low Cost Cheap Flights to and from Forli Airport".
↑ "Smartavia войдет в лето с 15 воздушными судами, три из которых Airbus A320neo". ATO. 17 April 2021.
↑ Eastern Air Lines

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[1] Flybondi official website

[2] "Indigo Partners acquires stake in Alas del Sur - report". ch-aviation. ch-aviation GmbH. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2019.

[3] Jet Smart official website

[4] Gamboa, Víctor; Villa y Caña, Pedro (26 December 2023). "Mexicana de Aviación vuelve a volar con viajes "más baratos" y equipaje de hasta 25 kilos sin costo". El Universal (in Spanish). Compañía Periodística Nacional. Retrieved 4 January 2024.

[5] "Mexicana de Aviación will become the new regional, low-cost airline". The Yucutan Times. 11 August 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2024.

[6] InterCaribbean Airways

[7] "Low Cost Cheap Flights to and from Forli Airport".

[8] "Smartavia войдет в лето с 15 воздушными судами, три из которых Airbus A320neo". ATO. 17 April 2021.

[9] Eastern Air Lines

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List of low-cost airlines

Contents

Africa

Americas

Asia

Europe

Oceania

Largest low-cost carriers

Defunct low-cost carriers

Africa

Americas

Asia

Europe

Oceania

See also

References