Wizz Air, the largest low cost low fare airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced today that the Company would be entering Slovakia by operating flights between Bratislava and Rome 4 times a week initially, starting from 20 September 2009.
The Slovak customers will now benefit from Wizz Air’s offer of low fares coupled with a great customer experience onboard of its brand new Airbus A320 aircraft. Wizz Air also extends its lowest fare guarantee to the Slovak market to reinforce its commitment to offer the best value for money.
„Slovakia has always been on our horizon. We believe that now is the time to step up and benefit from the arising opportunities on the market. This is the first step, many more to follow.” – said John Stephenson, Executive Vice President of Wizz Air.
Wizz Air carried over 6,5 million passengers in the last 12 months. The airline's fleet is currently consisting of 25 Airbus A320 aircraft operating from 11 bases in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and the Czech Republic.
any chance of Wizz making a return to BFS with new aircraft of the way, there is the market for the routes as EZY only serves the polish market 3x week and all flights are full (149 PAX inbound and outbound)
any chance of Wizz making a return to BFS with new aircraft of the way, there is the market for the routes as EZY only serves the polish market 3x week and all flights are full (149 PAX inbound and outbound) Yesterday 18:16
I'd doubt it. If the routes from Belfast to Warsaw and Katowice didn't work in the boom times when there were lots of Poles living in the North, I don't see why they'd work now, with a lot of Poles either gone home, or having moved south because of the weak Pound and the strong Euro. The routes would not have been withdrawn if they had been profitable!
Wizz Air launches flights from Romania to Grenoble
Wizz Air the largest low fare - low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced today that it would launch new routes from Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca to Grenoble in France. The flights to the new winter destination will be operated once a week between 12 December 2009 and 27 March 2010 as seasonal ski services.
Tickets are already on sale with one-way all-inclusive fares starting from as low as 52,49 EUR from Cluj and 62,49 EUR from Bucharest on wizzair.com and via call center by calling 0903 760 100.
Wizz seem to be quietly carving up a huge niche in the European and 'close to' Europe market.
I was very eager to fly with Wizz this summer and decided to travel some 300kmtrs by car to Turku to be able to try it out. And... you know what? It was a very positive experience. Well, WIZZ is certainly a follower of a "big brother" Ryanair. They do have a very similar business model, in many regards. Having probably as low cost base as FR have, serving the same or similar airports and targeting comparable passenger groups they've succeeded in creating a more sympathetic brand (pax-friendlier), so being on some occasions a counterpart and sometimes a rival of FR, they do have all chances to succeed in carving these niches in the future as well.
I wasn't myself if I didn't mention our Finnish "niche" market. You have some planes in Bulgaria, don't you? Try some connections to Finland therefrom. I'm not a special enthusiast of the Bulgarian beaches, but many young Finnish people really are. Give it a try (or take them anywhere towards the sun).
Almost every airline in the CE Europe is offering stranded SkyEurope passengers discounted flight tickets, Wizz Air is no exception. The demand is huge apparently, as Wizzair's website just... disappeared (a while ago). There is no reason to be distressed, though. Wizz uses the same software provider as Ryanair does and, as already proven with them, both Open Skies and New Skies obviously hate such an intense traffic.
Pee, top marks to you for always trying to promote your own airports in Finland and for trying to encourage Ryanair and Wizz to start some new routes.
I should now like to propose we all get together to do our best to encourage Ryanair or Wizz to do a Tampere - Cork, even if it was just on a summer seasonal basis doing two flights a week!
30 September
Wizz Air opens its 12th base in Wroclaw
6 new routes to Paris Beauvais, Oslo Torp, Eindhoven,
Forli Bologna, Cork and Milan Bergamo.
Re-opening flights to Dortmund and Doncaster Sheffield.
Increasing frequency on existing route to London Luton.
What are the odds that wizz open a new base at Belgrade sooner rather than later considering JAT's troubles recently or where else could there next base be? Not many places left in eastern europe without wizz
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