Category Archives: Wizz Air (Hungary)

Wizz Air to go public on the London Stock Exchange

Wizz Air (Budapest) according to Reuters plans to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange, with the goal to raise 200 million euros ($273 million) in order to grow further.

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In other news, on May 19 the low-fare airline celebrated its 10th anniversary. The company issued this statement:

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe on May 19 celebrated the 10 year anniversary of its first flight from Katowice in southern Poland to London Luton on May 19, 2004. Wizz Air was established with the ambition of making flying more affordable to the citizens of CEE. To the end of 2013, Wizz Air carried a total of 69 million passengers. Wizz Air has built a current network of over 300 routes and 96 destinations across 35 countries. In FY 2014, Wizz Air carried 13.9 million passengers and looks forward to welcoming many more passengers on board its flights in the years ahead.

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Wizz Air to open a new base at Riga, Latvia

Wizz Air (Budapest) has announced that it will open a new Riga base with one new Airbus A320 on 19 June 2014. Coinciding with the delivery of the aircraft the airline will start operating 4 new routes from Riga to Barcelona, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dortmund, Beauvais (near Paris) and increase frequencies on the services to London (Luton) and Torp (near Oslo).

With the new destinations Wizz Air is now offering 25 weekly flights on 8 routes from Latvia’s capital, representing 85% capacity growth year on year (July 2014). The airline believes its expansion in Riga will also stimulate the local job market in aviation and tourism sectors as consumers will have access to more low cost services. Seats on the new Riga routes are already on sale from just EUR 19.99** and can be booked on wizzair.com.

WIZZ AIR’S NEW ROUTES FROM RIGA:

To	Days	Starts	Fares from**
Barcelona	Wed, Sun	22 June	39.99 EUR
Doncaster Sheffield	Mon, Fri	20 June	29.99 EUR
Dortmund	Wed, Sun	22 June	19.99 EUR
Paris Beauvais	Tue, Thu, Sat	19 June	29.99 EUR

WIZZ AIR’S INCREASED FREQUENCIES FROM RIGA:

To	Flights per week
Oslo Torp	from 2 to 3
London Luton	from 7 to 8

Wizz Air started operations in Riga 4 years ago and already carried 200,000 passengers in 2013.

Copyright Photo: Paul Bannwarth/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-232 HA-LWV (msn 5660) with Sharklets lands at EuroAirport serving the Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg area.

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Wizz Air to open its 19th base in Craiova, Romania

Wizz Air (Budapest) has announced its 19th base to be opened in Craiova, Romania in July 2014 with one based aircraft. A new Airbus A320 aircraft will be delivered in Craiova on July 23, 2014.

The new aircraft will support operations of a total of six Craiova routes and increase seat capacity in the first 12 months of based operations to over 260,000 seats. The airline believes this will also stimulate the local job market in aviation and tourism sectors as consumers will have access to more low cost routes. Wizz Air announced more weekly flights on the existing services to Milan Bergamo and London Luton, and announced four new routes to Barcelona, Bologna, Dortmund and Rome Ciampino, that will start operating from July 23, 2014.

WIZZ AIR’S NEW ROUTES FROM CRAIOVA:

To	Days	Starts	Fares from**
Bologna	Wed, Sun	23 July	RON 99
Rome Ciampino	Wed, Sun	23 July	RON 99
Dortmund	Tue, Thu, Sat	24 July	RON 129
Barcelona	Mon, Fri	25 July	RON 129

WIZZ AIR’S INCREASED FREQUENCIES FROM CRAIOVA:

To	Days per week
London Luton	from 2 to 4
Milan Bergamo	from 2 to 3

Copyright Photo: Paul Bannwarth/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-232 WL HA-LWV (msn 5660) with Sharklets lands at EuroAirport serving Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg.

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Wizz Air Hungary takes delivery of its first Airbus A320 with Sharklets

Wizz Air (Hungary) (Budapest) has taken delivery of its first A320 aircraft equipped with Sharklet fuel saving wing tip devices. The carrier becomes one of the first Eastern European Airlines to do so, following the delivery in March of the first A320 with Sharklets to Wizz Air (Ukraine). Wizz Air’s cumulative orders stand at 112 aircraft. Including this delivery, Wizz Air Hungary’s in service fleet rises to 38 A320 Family aircraft.

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Wizz Air to add more flights from its Budapest base next summer

Wizz Air (Hungary) (Budapest) has announced it will base a new Airbus A320 in Budapest to grow passenger traffic by 20% up to 2.2 million passengers at its Budapest base in 2013. This 7th Budapest aircraft will start operations on March 13, 2013.

Following a strong Budapest traffic growth of 30% in 2012, Wizz Air is now announcing further frequency increases on six routes to Dortmund, Eindhoven, Kiev, Larnaca, Malaga and Naples and will reinstate the holiday route to Thessaloniki (Greece). In total the airline will operate 30 routes and 155 weekly flights from Budapest in the summer period.

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Wizz BUD 12:2012 Route Map

Wizz Air to start Budapest-Geneva service on December 14

Wizz Air (Hungary) (Budapest) will launch a new route from Budapest to Geneva starting on December 14. The new route will operate on three days a week. In addition, the company will launch a new route from from Belgrade to Beauvais.

Wizz Air to move operations from Bucharest Baneasa to Otopeni on March 25

Wizz Air (Budapest) will move its entire Bucharest Baneasa Airport operations to the newer Henri Coanda (Otopeni) Airport on March 25, 2012.

Wizz Air has received official confirmation about the closure of Baneasa airport to commercial aircraft traffic which will result in the need to move its operations to Otopeni.

Meanwhile Ryanair and Wizz Air are battling for the Hungarian market in the wake of the collapse of MALEV Hungarian Airlines (Budapest). Ryanair has alleged that Wizz Air’s ownership structure violates the European Union ownership rules and has asked the EU to investigate its ownership structure. Wizz Air stated its ownership structure has not changed since it was first reviewed by the EU according to this report by realdeal.hu.

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Wizz Air to expand its Budapest operation

Wizz Air (wizzair.com) (Hungary) Airbus A320-232 HA-LPS (msn 3771) LTN (Rob Skinkis), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

Wizz Air ((wizzair.com) (Hungary) (Budapest) has announced it will invest HUF 25 billion ($100 million) into expanding its operations in Budapest due to the termination of MALEV Hungarian Airlines. As of March 2012, the airline will add two Airbus A320 aircraft to its Budapest base, a 66% increase in overall capacity.

Wizz Air has increased its projections for the number of passengers carried yearly from 1.4 million to 2 million. This will result in the addition of approximately 700 new (direct and associated) jobs in Hungary. The airline will launch one new route and increase frequencies on several existing routes. The number of available flights per week will nearly double from 67 to 129:

The Budapest-Bucharest flight will initially operate three times per week. With the addition of three flights to London Luton, Wizz Air will now offer triple daily service. Flights to Eindhoven and Brussels Charleroi will double in frequency, now operating twice daily. The frequency of flights to Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Milan, and Malmo will also double and be available at least daily.

Table of Budapest changes:

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With the previous announced new routes by Ryanair, coupled by these Wizz Air increases, Budapest is becoming a new low-fare center of Europe.

Wizz Air’s routes from BUD:

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Wizz Air carries over 11 million passengers in 2011, up 15%

Wizz Air (wizzair.com) (Hungary) Airbus A320-232 HA-LPS (msn 3771) LTN (Rob Skinkis), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

Wizz Air (Hungary) (Budapest) announced it carried over 11 million passengers in 2011, representing 15% growth year on year.

Average load factor reached over 84%, in line with previous years.

The airline opened three new operating bases in 2011: Belgrade in Serbia, Vilnius in Lithuania and Tirgu Mures in Romania.

Currently, Wizz Air operates from 15 bases and offers over 200 routes across Europe. The carrier employs 1,500 people in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Serbia, Lithuania and Switzerland.

In other news, the low-fare carrier launched the Budapest-Dortmund route on January 13.

Additionally the carrier, starting on April 25 2012, will add Stavanger (Norway) from Katowice. The new Katowice – Stavanger service will operate initially twice a week on Wednesdays and Sundays.

Wizz Air (Hungary) Slide Show: CLICK HERE

Wizz Air routes from the Budapest base (click on the map to enlarge):