# List of low-cost airlines

The following is a list of low-cost carriers organised 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

   * Air Arabia Egypt
   * Air Cairo

### Kenya

   * Fly540
   * Jambojet

### Morocco

   * Air Arabia Maroc

### Nigeria

   * Green Africa Airways

### South Africa

   * Fastjet
   * FlySafair

### Zimbabwe

   * Fastjet Zimbabwe

## Americas
### Argentina

   * Flybondi
   * JetSmart

### Brazil

   * Gol Transportes Aéreos
   * Azul Linhas Aéreas

### Canada

   * Air Canada Rouge
   * Flair Airlines
   * Sunwing Airlines

### Chile

   * JetSmart
   * Sky Airline

### Colombia

   * Clic Air
   * Wingo

### Costa Rica

   * Volaris Costa Rica

### Dominican Republic

   * AraJet
   * RED Air

### El Salvador

   * Volaris El Salvador

### Mexico

   * Mexicana de Aviación
   * Viva
   * Volaris

### Paraguay

   * Paranair

### Peru

   * JetSmart Perú
   * Sky Airline Peru

### Turks and Caicos

   * InterCaribbean Airways

### United States

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

## Asia
### Afghanistan

   * Kam Air

### Armenia

   * FlyOne Armenia

### Bangladesh

   * Fly Dhaka Airlines

### Cambodia

   * AirAsia Cambodia
   * Cambodia Airways

### China

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

### Hong Kong

   * Greater Bay Airlines
   * HK Express

### India

   * Air India Express
   * Akasa Air
   * IndiGo
   * SpiceJet

### Indonesia

   * Citilink
   * Indonesia AirAsia
   * Lion Air
   * Super Air Jet
   * TransNusa
   * Wings Air

### Japan

   * Air Japan
   * Jetstar Japan
   * Peach Aviation
   * Spring Airlines Japan
   * Zipair Tokyo

### Kazakhstan

   * FlyArystan

### Kuwait

   * Jazeera Airways

### Malaysia

   * AirAsia
   * AirAsia X
   * Firefly

### Nepal

   * Buddha Air

### Oman

   * Salam Air

### Pakistan

   * Air Sial
   * Airblue
   * Fly Jinnah
   * Serene Air

### Philippines

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

### Saudi Arabia

   * Flyadeal
   * Flynas

### Singapore

   * Jetstar Asia
   * Scoot

### South Korea

   * Aero K
   * Air Busan
   * Air Premia
   * Air Seoul
   * Eastar Jet
   * Jeju Air
   * Jin Air
   * T'way Air

### Taiwan

   * Tigerair Taiwan

### Thailand

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

### United Arab Emirates

   * Air Arabia
   * Air Arabia Abu Dhabi
   * flydubai
   * Wizz Air Abu Dhabi

### Uzbekistan

   * Centrum Air
   * HumoAir

### Vietnam

   * Pacific Airlines
   * VietJet Air

## Europe
### Austria

   * EasyJet Europe
   * Eurowings Europe

### Czech Republic

   * Smartwings

### France

   * French Bee
   * Transavia France

### Germany

   * Eurowings

### Hungary

   * Wizz Air

### Iceland

   * Play

### Ireland

   * Ryanair

### Italy

   * Aeroitalia

### Malta

   * Lauda Europe
   * Malta Air
   * Wizz Air Malta

### Moldova

   * FlyOne
   * HiSky

### Netherlands

   * Transavia

### Norway

   * Norse Atlantic Airways
   * Norwegian Air Shuttle

### Poland

   * Buzz

### Romania

   * Dan Air
   * Fly Lili
   * HiSky Europe

### Russia

   * Pobeda
   * Smartavia

### Spain

   * Air Europa Express
   * Iberia Express
   * Iberojet
   * Level
   * Volotea
   * Vueling

### Sweden

   * Norwegian Air Sweden

### Switzerland

   * EasyJet Switzerland

### Turkey

   * AJet
   * Pegasus Airlines

### Ukraine

   * SkyUp

### United Kingdom

   * EasyJet
   * Jet2.com
   * Norse Atlantic UK
   * Ryanair UK
   * Wizz Air UK

## 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 | 69.9 | 65.3 | 61.4 | 59.2 | 55.5 | 49.7 |
| 3 | Air Asia Group | 50.6 | 45.6 | 42.6 | 34.1 | 29.9 | 25.7 |
| 4 | Lion Air Group | – | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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

   * ^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
### Africa
#### Algeria

   * Antinea Airlines
   * Ecoair International

#### Morocco

   * Atlas Blue
   * Jet4you

#### Mozambique

   * Fastjet Mozambique

#### South Africa

   * 1time
   * Kulula
   * Mango
   * SA Express
   * Skywise Airlines
   * Velvet Sky

#### Tanzania

   * Fastjet Tanzania

#### Zimbabwe

   * Zimbabwe flyafrica.com

### Americas
#### Argentina

   * Norwegian Air Argentina
   * Sol Líneas Aéreas

#### Barbados

   * REDjet

#### Brazil

   * BRA Transportes Aéreos
   * OceanAir
   * WebJet Linhas Aéreas

#### Canada

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

#### Chile

   * Latin American Wings

#### Colombia

   * AIRES
   * Intercontinental de Aviación
   * Viva Air Colombia

#### Costa Rica

   * Aeropostal Alas de Centroamerica

#### Honduras

   * EasySky

#### Ecuador

   * Icaro Air

#### Mexico

   * 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

#### Peru

   * Viva Air Perú

#### United States

   * Air Florida
   * AirTran Airways (acquired by Southwest Airlines)
   * America West Airlines (merged into US Airways
   * ATA Airlines
   * Braniff (1991–1992)
   * Eastern Air Lines (2015)
   * Hooters Air
   * Independence Air
   * 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

#### Uruguay

   * U Air

### Asia
#### Azerbaijan

   * AZALJet
   * Buta Airways

#### Bahrain

   * Bahrain Air

#### Georgia

   * Flyvista

#### Hong Kong

   * Oasis Hong Kong Airlines

#### India

   * 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

#### Indonesia

   * Adam Air
   * Bali Air
   * Batavia Air
   * Indonesia AirAsia X

#### Israel

   * Up

#### Japan

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

#### Jordan

   * Air Arabia Jordan

#### Kuwait

   * Wataniya Airways

#### Kyrgyzstan

   * Air Manas

#### Macau

   * Viva Macau

#### Malaysia

   * MYAirline
   * Rayani Air

#### Nepal

   * Cosmic Air
   * Fly Yeti

#### Pakistan

   * Bhoja Air
   * Rayyan Air
   * Shaheen Air

#### Philippines

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

#### Republic of Korea

   * Air Pohang

#### Saudi Arabia

   * Sama

#### Singapore

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

#### Sri Lanka

   * Mihin Lanka (merged with SriLankan Airlines)

#### Taiwan

   * U-Land Airlines
   * V Air

#### Thailand

   * NokScoot
   * One-Two-GO Airlines
   * Solar Air

#### United Arab Emirates

   * Kang Pacific Airlines

### Europe
#### Albania

   * Albatros Airways
   * Belle Air

#### Austria

   * Laudamotion
   * Level Europe
   * Niki

#### Belgium

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

#### Bulgaria

   * Wizz Air Bulgaria

#### Cyprus

   * Eurocypria
   * Helios Airways

#### Czech Republic

   * Blue Air Moravia

#### Denmark

   * Sterling Airlines
   * Transavia Denmark

#### Faroe Islands

   * FaroeJet

#### Finland

   * Flying Finn

#### France

   * Air Turquoise
   * Flywest

#### 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

   * Ellinair
   * Hellas Jet
   * Macedonian Airlines

#### Iceland

   * Iceland Express
   * Loftleiðir
   * WOW Air

#### Ireland

   * Norwegian Air International

#### Italy

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

#### Netherlands

   * V Bird

#### Norway

   * Color Air
   * Feel Air
   * Flyr
   * Norwegian Long Haul

#### Poland

   * Air Polonia
   * Centralwings
   * Direct Fly
   * GetJet
   * OLT Express Poland

#### Romania

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

#### Russia

   * Avianova
   * Dobrolet
   * Sky Express

#### Serbia

   * Centavia

#### Slovakia

   * SkyEurope

#### Spain

   * Spanair

#### Sweden

   * Flyme
   * FlyNordic
   * Snowflake

#### Ukraine

   * Bees Airline
   * Wizz Air Ukraine

#### United Kingdom

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

### 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)