Airport Hundreds of staff of Wizz Air UK should check their contracts carefully as it seems the company they work for may not legally exist.
The company that took millions from the UK government at the height of the coronavirus pandemic and a subsidiary of the Hungarian Wizz Air doesn't have a legal presence in the UK. According to
Mail on Sunday's financial investigator Tony Hetherington the airline has been ignoring a large number of court cases and orders for payment because the carrier says it has no legal presence in the UK.
This should be a big worry for all the passengers booked on Wizz Air UK flights in the coming months, as they will have no legal recourse should something go wrong. If it is true and Wizz Air UK has no legal presence in the UK it could very well mean its licence to operate as an airline is invalid and its planes and pilots flying illegally.
It appears according to Hetherington that the airline has ignored more than 400 county court judgments and not paid out the money the court has ordered it to pay and the airline hasn't given a reason why.
Has Wizz Air UK refused to pay out your county or other court judgement by telling you it has no presence in the UK? Is this just the tip of the iceberg or is something more sinister and serious? Is the airline ignoring the law because it wants to or is it not paying up because it can't? Hetherington reports that 'the group's recent accounts showed it lost about £336million last year, and had borrowings totalling almost £4 billion.' so maybe the cash has run out, either way, the UK's Civil Aviation Authority has been informed.