World's biggest LCCs

[MUFC_fan]

Here I am trying to find out who are the biggest low cost airline on the planet on domestic and international travel.

Here is what I have found (2006):

96,277,000 Southwest Airlines (US)
40,532,000 Ryanair (Ireland)
34,023,000 easyJet (UK)
19,600,000 Air Berlin (Germany)
13,100,000 AirTran (US)
12,106,823 Air Asia GRP(Malaysia)
11,800,000 JetBlue (US)
10,000,000 ATA (US)
9,204,000 GOL (Brazil)
7,748,752 FlyBe (UK)
5,900,000 Air Deccan (India)
5,600,000 Air One (Italy)
5,100,000 Norweign (Norway)
5,000,000 WestJet (Canada)
3,134,230 Monarch Scheduled (UK)
2,831,922 Jet2 (UK)
2,700,000 Sky Europe (Slovakia)
1,900,000 Wizzair (Poland/Hungary)
1,900,000 Sterling (Iceland)
1,548,744 Thomsonfly (scheduled) (UK)
1,489,377 flyGlobespan (UK)
1,200,000 Tiger Airways (Singapore)

They are what I can find on Wikipedia etc. If you have any to add such as Virgin Blue please post and I will add it to the list, cheers.

[FLYboh]

the following is from the CAA stats for 2006

Jet2 2,831,922
Flyglobespan 1,489,377
Thomsonfly 9,617416 (this will include their charter passengers as well)

[eggc]

MUFC Fan - might be worth looking at Spirits figures.

[MUFC_fan]

As I said above, they are all I can find. There is also Virgin Blue, JetStar and many more but I can't find them.

Anybody else?

[dada]

MUFC FAN

fantastic research, but have you ever thought of getting yourself a life. maybe one in the industry would help.

[MUFC_fan]

lol!

Sorry, I get given all these holidays and I have just had a day of 'emptyness.' had nothing to do all day for probably the first time this year and I just don't know what to do with myself.

Really, I was just interested at how FR and EZY were faring against other lccs on different continents, and how smaller carriers were doing against them such as wizzair and jet2.

[Re-Heat]

Airline Business Rankings

1 Southwest Airlines United States 1971 83.8 108,915
2 Ryanair Ireland 1991 42.5
3 easyJet United Kingdom 1995 28.0 27,608
4 AirTran Airways United States 1993 20.1 22,263
5 Air Berlin Germany 2002 19.7 24,450
6 JetBlue Airways United States 2000 18.6 37,522
7 Gol Transportes Aereos Brazil 2001 17.4 14,812
8 Virgin Blue Australia 2000 14.3 16,515
9 WestJet Airlines Canada 1996 11.2 15,755
10 Lion Airlines Indonesia 2000 10.0
11 Thomsonfly United Kingdom 2004 9.6 24,019
12 Frontier Airlines United States 1994 8.9 13,395
13 germanwings Germany 2002 7.1
14 Air Deccan India 2003 5.9 5,124
15 Jetstar Australia 2003 5.8 6,410
16 AirAsia Malaysia 2001 5.7 6,702
17 Norwegian Norway 2002 5.1 4,223
18 Spirit Airlines United States 1990 5.0 7,326
19 Hapag-Lloyd Express Germany 2002 4.6 3,489
20 flybe United Kingdom 2002 4.5 2,500
21 bmibaby United Kingdom 2002 4.1 3,499
22 Sterling Airlines Denmark 2000 4.0
23 Vueling Airlines Spain 2004 3.5 3,253
24 Cebu Pacific Air Philippines 1996 3.5
25 Monarch Scheduled United Kingdom 1986 3.1

First # is pax, second is RPK.

[JulietNovemberPapa]

Your passenger figures for FR are wrong: by the 31st July, it had carried 45.3m. So it's probably 46-46.5m now.

[Cyrano]

Originally Posted by JulietNovemberPapa

Your passenger figures for FR are wrong.

Reheat's figures are from the Airline Business rankings which are usually based on full-year results to provide a reasonable baseline for comparisons. As such, they are perfectly correct and relate to Ryanair's last full financial year (until Mar 07).

The fact that Ryanair (and most of the others on the list) have been growing since then doesn't make these comparison figures "wrong".

Feel free to post an updated comparison table if you'd like.

[JulietNovemberPapa]

It is inaccurate and while it enables a snap-shot in history, it doesn't reflect the reality, and thus begs the question: how worthwhile is it?

What if the difference between easyJet and Ryanair was 2.5m? easyJet by now would be number 2 and Ryanair number 3. That would paint a much different picture.

If you're going to post such a list you should take the time not to copy-and-paste but rather to get the most up-to-date figures. Otherwise it's all rather adademic.

[Re-Heat]

It is the 2006 full year rankings from AB. The post is for someone's information, and if you are going to criticise it, you pull it together from scratch as I certainly don't have the time.

Why do some people bother replying...

[JulietNovemberPapa]

OK, let's not worry about the validity of statistics. Hell, why not submit the data from 1999? After all, its accuracy isn't important.

Actually, I'm criticising MUFC_fan more than you.

Still, unimportant in the grand scheme, so let's move on.

[ryansf]

JulietNovemberPapa, it isn't inaccurate at all....the way you are suggesting would only be a half year figure, which in my opinion isn't a complete view! If you want to add up the passengers for the year so far, by my (and everyone elses) guest!

[cesare.caldi]

Airone (the second italian airline) is not a low cost carrier.