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- List of largest low-cost carriers
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{{short description|Wikimedia list article}}{{More citations needed|date=November 2016}}{{Expand list|date=November 2011}}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. Regional airlines, which may compete with low-cost airlines on some routes, are listed at list of regional airlines. Africa {{EGY}}- Air Arabia Egypt
- Air Cairo
- Nile Air
{{KEN}}{{MAR}}{{MOZ}} | | {{ZAF}}{{TZA}}{{ZWE}} |
Americas {{ARG}}- Flybondi [1]
- Norwegian Air Argentina
{{BRA}}- Azul Brazilian Airlines
- Gol Transportes Aéreos
{{CAN}}- Air Canada Rouge
- Air Transat[2]
- Canada Jetlines (planned)
- Flair Airlines
- Sunwing Airlines[2]
- Swoop
- WestJet (formerly)[3]
{{CHI}}{{COL}} | | {{CRI}}{{flag|Dominican Republic}}{{flag|Honduras}}{{MEX}}- Interjet
- VivaAerobus
- Volaris
{{PER}}{{USA}}- Allegiant Air
- Frontier Airlines
- JetBlue
- Southwest Airlines
- Spirit Airlines
- Sun Country Airlines
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Asia {{flag|Bangladesh}}{{flag|Cambodia}}{{CHN}}- 9 Air
- Beijing Capital Airlines
- Colorful Guizhou Airlines
- China United Airlines
- Jiangxi Air
- Lucky Air
- Ruili Airlines
- Spring Airlines
- Urumqi Air
- West Air
{{HKG}}{{IND}}- Air India Express
- AirAsia India
- GoAir
- IndiGo
- SpiceJet
{{IDN}}- Citilink
- Indonesia AirAsia
- Lion Air
- Wings Air
{{JPN}}- AirAsia Japan
- Jetstar Japan
- Peach
- Spring Airlines Japan
- Vanilla Air
{{KGZ}} | | {{MYS}}{{PAK}}{{PHL}}- Cebgo
- Cebu Pacific
- Philippines AirAsia
{{SGP}}- Jetstar Asia Airways
- Scoot
{{KOR}}- Air Busan
- Air Seoul
- Eastar Jet
- Jeju Air
- Jin Air
- T'way Air
{{TWN}}{{THA}}- Nok Air
- NokScoot
- Thai AirAsia
- Thai AirAsia X
- Thai Lion Air
- Thai Vietjet Air
{{VNM}}- Jetstar Pacific Airlines
- VietJet Air
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Middle East Europe {{ALB}}{{AUT}}- easyJet Europe
- Eurowings Europe
- Lauda
{{AZE}}{{CZE}}{{FRA}}- French Bee
- Transavia France
{{GER}}{{HUN}}{{IRL}}- Ryanair
- Norwegian Air International
{{ITA}}- Blue Panorama Airlines
- Ernest Airlines
{{LVA}} | | {{MLD}}{{NLD}}{{NOR}}{{POL}}{{ROM}}{{RUS}}{{ESP}}- Iberia Express
- Level
- Volotea
- Vueling
{{SWE}}{{CHE}}{{TUR}}{{UKR}}{{GBR}}- EasyJet
- Flybe
- Jet2.com
- Norwegian Air UK
- Ryanair UK
- Wizz Air UK
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Oceania {{AUS}}- Jetstar Airways
- Tigerair Australia
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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 |
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1 | {{flagicon|United States}} Southwest Airlines | 144.6 | 135.8 | 133.2 | 134.0 | 135.2 | 106.2 | |
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2 | {{flagicon|Ireland}} Ryanair | 101.4 | 86.4 | 81.4 | 79.6 | 76.4 | 72.7 | [https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/useful-info/about-ryanair/about-us] |
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3 | {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} easyJet{{ref|1|1}} | 69.9 | 65.3 | 61.4 | 59.2 | 55.5 | 49.7 | |
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4 | {{flagicon|Malaysia}} Air Asia Group {{ref|2|2}} | 50.6 | 45.6 | 42.6 | 34.1 | 29.9 | 25.7 | |
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5 | {{flagicon|Indonesia}} Lion Air Group {{ref|3|3}} | – | 45.0 | 37.9 | 32.0 | 27.0 | 20.5 | |
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6 | {{flagicon|Brazil}} Gol Transportes Aéreos {{ref|4|4}} | 39.1 | 40.1 | 36.3 | 39.2 | 36.2 | 32.9 | |
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7 | {{flagicon|United States}} JetBlue | 35.1 | 32.0 | 30.4 | 29.0 | 26.3 | 24.3 | |
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8 | {{flagicon|India}} IndiGo | 29.7 | 22.8 | 19.3 | 15.8 | – | – | |
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9 | {{flagicon|Norway}} Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA | 25.8 | 24.0 | 20.7 | 17.7 | 15.7 | 13.0 | [https://www.norwegian.com/en/about/company/investor-relations/] |
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10 | {{flagicon|Spain}} Vueling | 24.8 | 21.5 | 17.2 | 14.8 | 12.3 | 11.0 | |
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11 | {{flagicon|Turkey}} Pegasus Airlines | 22.3 | 19.7 | 16.9 | 13.6 | 11.3 | 8.6 |
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12 | {{flagicon|Canada}} WestJet | 20.2 | 19.6 | 18.5 | 17.4 | 16.0 | 15.2 | |
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13 | {{flagicon|Hungary}} Wizz Air{{ref|5|5}} | 19.2 | 12.0 | 11.2 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 5.8 | [https://web.archive.org/web/20150214200929/https://wizzair.com/en-GB/about_us/news/wizzen292] |
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14 | {{flagicon|Philippines}} Cebu Pacific {{ref|6|6}} | 18.4 | 16.9 | 14.4 | 12.3 | 10.5 | – | [https://web.archive.org/web/20140517173136/https://www.cebupacificair.com/about-us/Pages/operating-statistics.aspx] |
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15 | {{flagicon|United States}} Spirit Airlines | 17.9 | 14.3 | 12.4 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.0 | |
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16 | {{flagicon|India}} SpiceJet | 11.7 | 12.6 | 11.7 | 9.5 | 8.6 | 6.6 | |
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17 | {{flagicon|Netherlands}} Transavia {{ref|7|7}} | 10.8 | 9.9 | 8.9 | - | - | - | |
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18 | {{flagicon|United States}} Allegiant Air | 9.4 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 5.9 | |
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19 | {{flagicon|UAE}} flydubai | 9.0 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 5.1 | – | – | [https://www.flydubai.com/en/news/flydubai-2015-annual-results] |
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20 | {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} flybe | – | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.2 | |
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21 | {{flagicon|United States}} Virgin America | 7.0 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 6.2 | – | – | [https://www.virginamerica.com/cms/about-our-airline/press/2015.html] |
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22 | {{flagicon|UAE}} AirArabia {{ref|8|8}} | – | 6.8 | 6.1 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 4.5 | |
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23 | {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Jet2.com | 5.9 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.4 | |
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24 | {{flagicon|South Africa}} Mango | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |
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25 | {{flagicon|Tanzania}} Fastjet {{ref|9|9}} | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | <0.1 | – | – | |
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- Notes
- {{note|1|1}} Includes EasyJet Switzerland.
- {{note|2|2}} Includes AirAsia India, AirAsia Japan, Airasia X, Indonesia Airasia, Philippines AirAsia, Thai AirAsia and Thai AirAsia X.
- {{note|3|3}} Includes Batik Air, Wings Air, Malindo Air and Thai Lion Air.
- {{note|4|4}} Includes Gol Transportes Aéreos and VARIG.
- {{note|5|5}} Includes Wizz Air Ukraine and Wizz Air Serbia.
- {{note|6|6}} Includes Cebgo.
- {{note|7|7}} Includes Transavia France.
- {{note|8|8}} Includes Air Arabia Maroc, Air Arabia Egypt and Air Arabia Jordan.
- {{note|9|9}} Includes Fastjet Tanzania and Fastjet Zimbabwe.
Defunct low-cost carriers See also {{wikivoyage|Low-cost airlines}}- Flag carrier
- List of regional airlines
- Lists of airlines
References 1. ^[https://www.flybondi.com/ Flybondi official website] 2. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Vowles|first1=Timothy M.|last2=Lück|first2=Michael|editor1-last=Gross|editor1-first=Sven|editor2-last=Lück|editor2-first=Michael|title=The Low Cost Carrier Worldwide|date=2016|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=9781317025054|chapter=Low Cost Carriers in the USA and Canada}} 3. ^{{cite web |title=Canadian Low-Cost Carrier Departs From No-Frills Model |publisher=Wall Street Journal |date=2015-07-28 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/westjet-airlines-profit-climbs-19-1438083009 |accessdate=2015-11-17}} 4. ^Jet Smart official website
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