Category Archives: Wizz Air (Hungary)

Wizz Air helps Ukrainian refugees reach their destinations with 100,000 free seats

Wizz Air made this announcement:

Wizz Air is committed to helping Ukrainian refugees reach their destination, wherever that may be. We are providing 100,000 free seats on short-haul flights departing from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania in March.

Wizz Air adds two new aircraft at Tirana

Wizz Air has announced the allocation of two new aircraft to its Tirana base. The new Airbus A320neo will join the fleet, enabling the start of two new routes from Tirana to Friedrichshafen and Rimini. As a result of that investment. The airline will also start operations to and from Kukรซs International Airport to Vienna, Memmingen/Munich West, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg.

Wizz Air started operations in Albania in April 2017 and has carried over 500,000 passengers over four years of successful operations. With todayโ€™s announcement, the airline will have a fleet of eight modern, state of the art young aircraft at its Tirana base by this Summer.ย  Together with the six new routes, Wizz Air now offers 42 routes to 13 countries from Tirana.

WIZZ AIRโ€™S NEW ROUTES FROM ALBANIA

DESTINATION DAYS LOWEST FARE* STARTS
Tirana โ€“ Friedrichshafen Monday, Friday 19.99 EUR 15April 2022
Tirana – Rimini Monday, Friday 19.99 EUR 15April 2022
Kukรซs โ€“ Vienna Tuesday, Saturday 19.99 EUR 4 June 2022
Kukรซs โ€“ Memmingen/Munich West Tuesday, Saturday 19.99 EUR 4 June 2022
Kukรซs โ€“ Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Wednesday, Sunday 19.99 EUR 1 June 2022
Kukรซs โ€“ Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Monday, Friday 19.99 EUR 3 June 2022

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* One-way price, including administration fee. One carry-on bag (max: 40x30x20cm) is included. Trolley bag and each piece of checked-in baggage is subject to additional fees. The price applies only to bookings made on wizzair.com and the WIZZ mobile app. Number of seats at indicated prices are limited.

** ACI suggests creation of 750 on-site jobs for every 1 million carried passengers per year

Wizz Air continues to expand at London Gatwick

Wizz Air previously announced that it will launch new routes from its London Gatwick Airport base to 14 destinations including, Faro, Palma, Larnaca, Catania, Podgorica, Tel Aviv, Chania, Mykonos and Funchal.

Now the airline has also announced new routes from LGW to Bourgas, Palermo, Varna and Venice.

There will also be new routes from Milan, Rome, Vienna, Bari and Naples to Gatwick Airport, with those flights operated by Wizz Air Hungary.

New routes from the London area:

 

 

Wizz Air acquires 15 daily slot pairs from Norwegian for London’s Gatwick Airport

Delivered on May 20, 2021

Wizz Air has announced it has acquired 15 daily slot pairs from Norwegian Air Shuttle.

Since bankruptcy Norwegian has basically given up on LGW.

This acquisition will allow Wizz Air to expand in the London area.

Previously Wizz Air launched a new base at LGW in October 2020. Wizz Air also operates from Luton Airport in the London area.

Meanwhile the carrier continues to expand with new routes from Milan to Prague, Naples to Nice, Palermo to Prague and Rome, from Sarajevo to London (Luton), from Lamezia to Turin, from Tirana to Nice, or from Warsaw to Nice.

In other news, Wizz Air has announced the following new routes from Bari to Dubai, from Cluj-Napoca to Nice, from Craiova to Barcelona, Paris and Brussels, from Rome to Marrakesh, from Krakรณw to Dubai, from Katowice to Naples, or from Kutaisi to Paris.

Additionally the carrier for next summer will add new routes from Belgrade to Nice, from Bari to Chania and Olbia, from Cluj-Napoca to Malta, from Catania to Mykonos, from Venice to Olbia, or from Naples to Corfu.

Top Copyright Photo: Wizz Air (UK) Airbus A321-271NX WL G-WUKO (msn 10479) PMI (Javier Rodriguez). Image: 954301.

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Indigo Partners portfolio airlines order 255 A321neo Family aircraft including 91 for Frontier

Wizz Air (Hungary), Frontier (United States), Volaris (Mexico) and JetSMART (Chile, Argentina), Indigo Partners portfolio airlines, have announced an order for 255 additional A321neo Family aircraft under a joint Indigo Partners agreement. The firm order was signed at the Dubai Airshow.

This order brings the total number of aircraft ordered by the Indigo Partnersโ€™ airlines to 1,145 A320 Family aircraft. The aircraft ordered today are a mix of A321neos and A321XLRs, which will be delivered to the individual airlines as follows:

  • Wizz Air: 102 aircraft (75 A321neo + 27 A321XLR)
  • Frontier: 91 aircraft (A321neo)
  • Volaris: 39 aircraft (A321neo)
  • JetSMART: 23 aircraft (21 A321neo + 2 A321XLR)

In addition to this order, Volaris and JetSMART will upconvert 38 A320neo to A321neo from their existing aircraft backlogs.

Indigo Partners LLC, based in Phoenix, Arizona, is a private equity fund focused on worldwide investments in air transportation.

Wizz Air to open its 7th base in Italy at Venice, adds new routes to Jordan

Wizz Air  (Hungary) Airbus A321-231 WL HA-LTH (msn 8724) FCO (Richard Vandervord). Image: 956221.

Wizz Air has announced the opening of its seventh Italian base, at Venice Marco Polo Airport.

With 2 Airbus A321neo aircraft in one of Italyโ€™s most important aviation markets, and with the launch of 4 new domestic services and 12 international destinations to 9 countries, Wizz Air continues to grow its Italian offer in order to provide passengers with a wide variety of destinations.

Wizz Air started flying to Italy in 2004, and since then has carried over 40 million passengers to and from Italy on its over 200 routes.

The establishment of Wizz Airโ€™s newest base in Venice Marco Polo airport, which follows the opening of six bases (Milan Malpensa, Catania, Palermo, Bari, Naples and Rome Fiumicino) of the airline in Italy within just one year, underpins Wizz Airโ€™s commitment towards the country.

The 2 Airbus A321neo aircraft will support the operations of 16 routes to Cagliari, Naples, Lamezia Terme, Lampedusa, Casablanca, Reykjavik, Mykonos, Santorini, Fuerteventura, Tenerife, Palma de Mallorca, Tallinn, London Luton, Tel Aviv, Prague, Sharm el Sheikh. Wizz Airโ€™s extensive Venice network will support local tourism, bring more capital to the region as well as connect Venice with 3 new and exciting, currently unserved destinations such as Reykjavik, Tallinn and Fuerteventura. Wizz Air already operates 10 services from Venice Marco Polo airport to Catania, Tirana, Chisinau, Skopje, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Timisoara, St. Petersburg and Kyiv Zhulyany.

WIZZ AIRโ€™S NEW ROUTES FROM VENICE MARCO POLO

DESTINATION DAYS LOWEST FARE*ย  STARTS
VENICE โ€“ CAGLIARI Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 19.99 EUR 3 March 2022
VENICE โ€“ NAPLES Daily 19.99 EUR 3 March 2022
VENICE โ€“ LAMEZIA TERME Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 9.99 EUR 3 March 2022
VENICE โ€“ LAMPEDUSA Wednesday, Sunday 19.99 EUR 6 March 2022
VENICE โ€“ CASABLANCA Monday, Wednesday, Friday 29.99 EUR 4 March 2022
VENICE โ€“ REYKJAVIK Tuesday, Saturday 29.99 EUR 2 April 2022
VENICEย โ€“ย MYKONOS

 

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 19.99 EUR 1 April 2022
VENICEย โ€“ย SANTORINI

 

Tuesday, Saturday 19.99 EUR 2 April 2022
VENICEย โ€“ย PALMA DE MALLORCA

 

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 19.99 EUR 1 April 2022
VENICEย โ€“ย FUERTEVENTURA

 

Thursday, Sunday 29.99 EUR 3 April 2022
VENICEย โ€“ย TENERIFE

 

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 29.99 EUR 31 October 2022
VENICEย โ€“ย TALLINN

 

Monday, Friday 19.99 EUR 4 March 2022
VENICEย โ€“ย LONDON LUTON Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 14.99 EUR / 12.99 GBP 3 March 2022
VENICEย โ€“ย TEL AVIV Tuesday, Saturday 19.99 EUR / 79 ILS 2 April 2022
VENICEย โ€“ย PRAGUE Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9.99 EUR / 259 CZK 1 April 2022
VENICEย โ€“ย SHARM EL SHEIKH Tuesday, Saturday 29.99 EUR / 35.99 USD 1 November 2022

* One-way price, including administration fee. One carry-on bag (max: 40x30x20cm) is included. Trolley bag and each piece of checked-in baggage is subject to additional fees. The price applies only to bookings made on wizzair.com and the WIZZ mobile app. Number of seats at indicated prices are limited.

In other news, the company has also announced new routes from Amman to Rome, Milan, Vienna and Budapest.

In addition, the airline will also fly from Aqaba to Rome, Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest.

Top Copyright Photo: Wizz Air (Hungary) Airbus A321-231 WL HA-LTH (msn 8724) FCO (Richard Vandervord). Image: 956221.

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Wizz Air to require pilots and cabin crew to be vaccinated, Green Pass now required for Italian domestic travel

Wizz Air will require all flight crews and cabin crews to be vaccinated by December.

In other news, from September 1, 2021 passengers will need a Green Pass to travel on domestic flights in Italy. Passengers can obtain the pass after vaccination, recovery from COVID-19 or a negative test result.

Wizz Air expands in Skopje and Ohrid

Wizz Air (Hungary) Airbus A321-231 WL HA-LXA (msn 6848) CFU (Stefan Sjogren). Image: 954825.

Wizz Air has announced four new routes from North Macedonia to Italy, Germany and Denmark – Skopje to Bologna and Turinโ€“ Italy, Skopje to Billund – Denmark, and Ohrid to Friedrichshafen, Germany. The first flights to all destinations will depart in December 2021.

The new routes will add up to the existing services already operated from both Skopje and Ohrid airports and will restate the airlineโ€™s commitment to offering Macedonian passengers flights to diverse destinations. The new services to Bologna, Turin, Friedrichshafen and Billund will start being operated thanks to the allocation of the 5aircraft to the Wizz Air base in Skopje.

ย ย ย ย THE NEWEST WIZZ AIR ROUTES FROM NORTH MACEDONIA

ROUTE DAYS STARTING FROM FARES FROM
Skopje โ€“ Bologna Wednesday, Sunday 19 December 2021 19.99 EUR / 1229 MKD
Skopje – Turin Tuesday, Saturday 18 December 2021 19.99 EUR / 1229 MKD
Skopje โ€“ Billund Thursday, Sunday 19 December 2021 19.99 EUR / 1229 MKD
Ohrid โ€“ Friedrichshafen Tuesday, Saturday 18 December 2021 19.99 EUR / 1229 MKD

* One-way price, including administration fee. One carry-on bag (max: 40x30x20cm) is included. Trolley bag and each piece of checked-in baggage is subject to additional fees. The price applies only to bookings made on wizzair.com and the WIZZ mobile app. Number of seats at indicated prices are limited.

The carrier is also adding new routes from Plovdiv.

Top Copyright Photo: Wizz Air (Hungary) Airbus A321-231 WL HA-LXA (msn 6848) CFU (Stefan Sjogren). Image: 954825.

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Wizz Air announces four new routes from Belgrade, Serbia

Wizz Air, Europeโ€™s fastest growing airline, has announced four new routes from Belgrade to Barcelona in Spain, Billund in Denmark, Vaxjo in Sweden, Frankfurt in Germany. The first flights will depart in December 2021.

ROUTE DAYS STARTING FROM* FARES FROM
Belgrade โ€“ Barcelona Tuesday, Saturday 18 December 2021 29.99 EUR / 3529 RSD
Belgrade โ€“ Frankfurt Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 16 December 2021 19.99 EUR / 2349 RSD
Belgrade โ€“ Vaxjo Wednesday, Sunday 18 December 2021 29.99 EUR / 3529 RSD
Belgrade โ€“ Billund Monday, Wednesday, Friday 17 December 2021 19.99 EUR / 2349 RSD

In other news, the company also announced a new route from Banja Luka to Hamburg in Germany. The route will be launched on December 17, 2021.

Photo: Hungary Air Cargo – Government of Hungary – Wizz Air Airbus A330-243F HA-LHU (msn 1578) BUD (Ton Jochems). Image: 954736.

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Copyright Photo: Hungary Air Cargo – Government of Hungary – Wizz Air Airbus A330-243F HA-LHU (msn 1578) BUD (Ton Jochems). Image: 954736.

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