List of low-cost airlines
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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.
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Oceania
List of 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 | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Southwest Airlines |
144.6 | 135.8 | 133.2 | 134.0 | 135.2 | 106.2 | [1] |
| 2 |  Ryanair |
101.4 | 86.4 | 81.4 | 79.6 | 76.4 | 72.7 | [2][3] |
| 3 |  easyJet1 |
69.9 | 65.3 | 61.4 | 59.2 | 55.5 | 49.7 | [4] |
| 4 |  Air Asia Group 2 |
50.6 | 45.6 | 42.6 | 34.1 | 29.9 | 25.7 | [5][6] |
| 5 |  Lion Air Group 3 |
– | 45.0 | 37.9 | 32.0 | 27.0 | 20.5 | [7] |
| 6 |  Gol Transportes Aéreos 4 |
39.1 | 40.1 | 36.3 | 39.2 | 36.2 | 32.9 | [8] |
| 7 | JetBlue |
35.1 | 32.0 | 30.4 | 29.0 | 26.3 | 24.3 | [9] |
| 8 |  IndiGo |
29.7 | 22.8 | 19.3 | 15.8 | – | – | [10][11] |
| 9 |  Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA |
25.8 | 24.0 | 20.7 | 17.7 | 15.7 | 13.0 | [12] |
| 10 |  Vueling |
24.8 | 21.5 | 17.2 | 14.8 | 12.3 | 11.0 | [13] |
| 11 |  Pegasus Airlines |
22.3 | 19.7 | 16.9 | 13.6 | 11.3 | 8.6 | |
| 12 |  WestJet |
20.2 | 19.6 | 18.5 | 17.4 | 16.0 | 15.2 | [14] |
| 13 |  Wizz Air5 |
19.2 | 12.0 | 11.2 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 5.8 | [15] |
| 14 |  Cebu Pacific 6 |
18.4 | 16.9 | 14.4 | 12.3 | 10.5 | – | [16] |
| 15 | Spirit Airlines |
17.9 | 14.3 | 12.4 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.0 | [17] |
| 16 | SpiceJet |
11.7 | 12.6 | 11.7 | 9.5 | 8.6 | 6.6 | [18] |
| 17 |  Transavia 7 |
10.8 | 9.9 | 8.9 | - | - | - | [19] |
| 18 | Allegiant Air |
9.4 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 5.9 | [20] |
| 19 |  flydubai |
9.0 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 5.1 | – | – | [21] |
| 20 | flybe |
– | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.2 | [22] |
| 21 | Virgin America |
7.0 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 6.2 | – | – | [23] |
| 22 | AirArabia 8 |
– | 6.8 | 6.1 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 4.5 | [24] |
| 23 | Jet2.com |
5.9 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.4 | [25] |
| 24 |  Mango |
2.3 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | [26] |
| 25 |  Fastjet 9 |
0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | <0.1 | – | – | [27] |
- Notes
- ^1 Includes EasyJet Switzerland.
- ^2 Includes AirAsia India, AirAsia Japan, Airasia X, Indonesia Airasia, Indonesia AirAsia X, Philippines AirAsia, Thai AirAsia and Thai AirAsia X.
- ^3 Includes 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 Cebgo.
- ^7 Includes Transavia France.
- ^8 Includes Air Arabia Maroc, Air Arabia Egypt and Air Arabia Jordan.
- ^9 Includes Fastjet Tanzania and Fastjet Zimbabwe.
Defunct low-cost carriers
See also
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Low-cost airlines.
References
- ^ Flybondi official website
- ^ a b Vowles, Timothy M.; Lück, Michael (2016). "Low Cost Carriers in the USA and Canada". In Gross, Sven; Lück, Michael (eds.). The Low Cost Carrier Worldwide. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317025054.
- ^ "Canadian Low-Cost Carrier Departs From No-Frills Model". Wall Street Journal. 2015-07-28. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
- ^ Jet Smart official website
