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Old 26th Jun 2020, 11:23
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Originally Posted by fanrailuk
Wizz Air are to discontinue their KTW route.

The last flight will be Friday 17 July 2020.

Wizz have been at BRS for around 6 years serving various different routes, with KTW being the last remaining.
Mentioned on Twitter apparently (according to another aviation website message board) along with the axing of some Wizz Air routes to Birmingham, Edinburgh, Doncaster, Luton and Liverpool.

If Katowice has gone it will be for the third time - Ryanair tried it from 2007 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2014, after which Wizz took it on. Loads were always high and in 2019 passenger numbers increased by nearly 18% on 2018 (to over 50,000 at 2/3 times weekly, depending on season) with an A321 replacing the A320, so it must be assumed the yield was the problem.

Ryanair has operated six other Polish routes from BRS year-round for a number of years (Warsaw Modlin, Poznan, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Rzeszow and Krakow - the latter against easyJet). They were operated until the pandemic struck and currently remain in the Ryanair booking engine but no-one can accurately predict the full effects of the post-pandemic fallout at any airport.

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