the.com/low cost carrier
the airline that sells you a seat, then sells everything else separately.
means an airline built to strip air travel down to its cheapest possible fare by cutting or unbundling every extra cost.
from pioneered by southwest airlines in the 1970s using one plane type, no meals, and fast turnarounds, then perfected by ryanair and easyjet in europe as a whole business model of charging separately for anything beyond the seat itself.
one plane typecuts training and maintenance costs drastically
secondary airportscheaper landing fees, further from city centers
turnaround timeplanes fly more hours per day
ancillary revenuebags and seats often outearn the ticket