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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2011)

 Australia

• Bonza
• Jetstar Airways

This section needs to be updated. (December 2022)

This is a list of largest low-cost carriers in the world, ranked by number of transported passengers, shown below in millions.

More information Ranks, Airline / Holding ...

Ranks	Airline / Holding	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	Sources
1	Ryanair	101.4	86.4	81.4	79.6	76.4	72.7
2	easyJet1	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 Air5	19.2	12.0	11.2	9.6	7.8	5.8
10	Jetstar6	18.9	17.1	15.2	10.5	9.7	8.0
11	Cebu Pacific7	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	Transavia8	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 Air9	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	AirArabia10	–	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	Fastjet11	0.8	0.6	0.4	<0.1	–	–

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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.

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