Wizz air to grow in poland
Wizz Air will grow 30% in Poland in 2010 - 3 new aircraft, 22 new routes, 1500 new jobs
Wizz Air, the largest low fare - low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced at a press conference in Warsaw today that it would increase capacity on its Polish network by 30% in 2010.
Wizz Air carried 3.6 million passengers in Poland in 2009 and plans to fly 4.7 million passengers in 2010.
The airline's Polish fleet will increase to 14 Airbus A320 aircraft by March 2010. Following the earlier announced expansions in Gdansk and Warsaw as well as the opening of the Wroclaw base Wizz Air will also expand operations in Katowice by adding a new aircraft in March 2010.
Also in March Wizz Air will start flying Łodz, the 6th Polish airport the airline operates from. The carrier will open 22 new routes and reinstate the summer seasonal services. The airline's Polish network will consist of 86 routes next summer.
The new services are as follows:
From To Start date
Katowice - Madrid 30 March 2010
Hamburg Lübeck 30 March 2010
Pisa 29 March 2010
Bergen 28 March 2010
Bourgas 12 June 2010
Łodz - Dortmund 30 March 2010
Gdansk- Eindhoven 17 December
Bergen 18 December
Paris Beauvais 18 December
Milan Bergamo 20 December
Wroclaw - Oslo Sandefjord Torp 17 December
Dortmund 17 December
Paris Beauvais 18 December
Doncaster/Sheffield 12 March 2010
Eindhoven 12 March 2010
Forli/Bologna 12 March 2010
Milan Bergamo 13 March 2010
Cork 14 March 2010
Poznan - Paris Beauvais 14 March 2010
Milan Bergamo 28 March 2010
Bourgas 12 June 2010
Warsaw Barcelona 29 March 2010
Eindhoven 30 March 2010
Venice Treviso 30 March 2010
Bourgas 12 June 2010
Could we see a new lodz - luton service in the future to compete with ryanair, and any news on belgrade services starting?