Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Budget airlines worldwide
RevenueBase identified 111 budget airlines worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 85,201 professional contacts across them, including 32,699 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Nairobi the largest hub.
This list covers budget airlines worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for budget airlines follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest budget airlines worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14,754 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JetBlue, New York's Hometown Airline, was born at JFK in with the mission of bringing humanity back to air travel, and is now a leading carrier in NYC, Boston, Fort Lauderdale…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 11,348 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re on a mission to make low-cost travel easy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 8,139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We took to the skies in 1996 with just over 200 employees and three aircraft serving six destinations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 5,817 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pegasus Airlines, purchased by Esas Group in January 2005, is a leading low-cost airline in Türkiye, which provides reasonably priced transportation opportunities on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 5,391 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wizz Air is Europe’s fastest-growing and ultra-low-cost airline, flying 80M+ passengers as of 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 4,965 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Air Arabia Group, the leading low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 3,390 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Volaris (NYSE: VLRS and BMV: VOLAR), is an ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC), with point-to-point operations, serving Mexico, the United States and Central America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,350 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Las Vegas-based Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) is focused on linking travelers in small cities to world-class leisure destinations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,408 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Taking you further to a #SummerToRemember #ConnectingWorldToKingdom” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,404 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Viva Aerobus is the fastest growing and lowest cost airline in the Americas, operating one of the youngest fleet of Airbus A320/21 aircraft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,913 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quality flights at reasonable prices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,667 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Scoot is the low-cost subsidiary of Singapore Airlines (SIA).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,316 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to flyadeal, a new single-class low fares carrier in Saudi Arabia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,291 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in April 2004, Jazeera Airways is Kuwait’s leading low-cost carrier and the first privately owned airline in the Middle East.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,006 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FlySafair is South Africa's true low cost airline.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 850 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at HK Express, we are built on a culture of respect, opportunity, innovation and travel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 817 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Flair Airlines is Canada’s leading value carrier, founded in 2017 to bring competition and lower fares to a market long dominated by a small number of airlines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 796 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Riyadh Air, where we elevate travel experiences with modern comfort and exceptional service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 773 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are not just a Low Cost carrier but we are an airline that provides superior products and services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 764 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Oman’s Low-Cost Carrier.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 688 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La nouvelle compagnie Air Côte d’Ivoire, créée en mai 2012, a la particularité d’offrir des avantages compétitifs : des vols directs et fréquents, aux horaires avantageux.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 602 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos Viva.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 593 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Jambojet, Kenya's first low-cost airline, is set to revolutionize the way you travel by opening up the skies for all to fly for less.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 552 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are part of the Iberia Group, Madrid´s low-cost and the leading airline on routes to the Canary and Balearic Islands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 550 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Avelo Airlines was founded with a simple purpose, to Inspire Travel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: budget airlines. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names budget airlines.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of budget airlines, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name budget airlines. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Budget airlines worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among budget airlines, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for budget airlines are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “budget airlines”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names budget airlines), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among budget airlines, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 32,699 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Budget airlines by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Budget airlines list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names budget airlines, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many budget airlines are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 111 budget airlines worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Jetblue, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most budget airlines?
The United States leads with 25 companies. Every budget airlines list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most budget airlines?
Nairobi leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Bangkok (2) and Calgary (2).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 32,699 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 111 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.