Wizz Air UK sees London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) as its primary focus for expansion in the UK according to Owain Jones, Managing Director of Wizz Air UK. Speaking to The Mail on Sunday Mr Jones said that Wizz Air wants to take control of up to 20 of the daily 110 [read more]
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air has announced an expansion to its Winter 20/21 network at Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB). Wizz Air already flies to 5 destinations from Birmingham including Budapest, Bucharest, Cluj, Wroclaw and Warsaw but 5 more destinations will commence in the winter season. Starting on the 24th October 2020, [read more]
A last minute airframe change on a Wizz Air UK flight caused incorrect passenger distribution information to be used prompting take-off issues according to an AAIB report. The flight from London Luton (LTN/EGGW) to Prague (PRG/LKPR) on 16th January 2020 was originally due to be operated by an Airbus A320 [read more]
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air, and its UK subsidiary Wizz Air UK are to set up a base London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) putting it in direct competition with Easyjet. Wizz Air will initially launch with a single aircraft operating flights to Athens, Lanzarote, Malta and Naples which all are all [read more]
Wizz Air UK (W9/WUK) has confirmed it is adding 5 new routes from London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW). The new routes start from 7th August and include 4 Spanish and 1 Greek destination. Based at London Luton, Wizz Air UK is a wholly-owned subsidiary of its Hungarian parent airline, Wizz Air. [read more]
London Southend Airport (SEN/EGMC) welcomes Wizz Air back to its apron today with a flight to Bucharest that is scheduled to depart at 19:50 local time. The Hungarian low-cost carrier stopped flying earlier this year due to coronavirus travel restrictions but like other airlines has slowly been resuming operations. Glyn [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has stepped in with “rescue fares” on the London Southend (SEN/EGMC) to Vilnius (VNO/EYVI) route that was dropped by Wizz Air (W6/WZZ). The fares start at just £9.99 and are designed to help out passengers left without flights to the Lithuanian capital after the cancellation [read more]
Hungarian Airline Wizz Air (W6/WZZ) has announced that it will open a new base in the Romanian city of Bacău. The base at George Enescu International Airport (BCM/LRBC) will be the Seventh in the country consolidating Wizz Air’s position as the No1 operator in Romania. Routes from Bacău will include [read more]
Wizz Air has announced five new routes from London Luton, most of which will start in Summer 2020. The new routes are all to destinations in mainland Spain, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands showing that, as travel restrictions ease, Wizz Air is thinking that Spain will be a busy destination [read more]
Hungarian owned low-cost carrier Wizz Air has announced that it plans to resume operations from London Luton (LTN/EGGW) Airport from 1st May. The airline has said that it will restart a limited program to destinations in Israel, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Spain with enhanced safety and distancing measures [read more]
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