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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.

Wizz Air:

Routes from Riga:

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.

Wizz Air:

Routes from the new base: