Jack1985
to me they seem to be underestimating strong base positions e.g. Budapest,
Warsaw. They could have and should have swooped on Malev's demise but they
didn't Ryanair beat them to it in there home market before they even announced
replacement flights. The move to Warsaw Modlin has seen Wizz shoot itself in the
foot twice. They move all operations to Modlin for a lower cost base, Ryanair
join them (virtually), then OLT set up at Chopin.
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Number of BUD-based aircraft doubled (from 3 to 6) within a month, announced the same day Malev went bust. Ryanair has only 5 a/c based, couple of routes (all against Wizz) announced initially are not operated.
Low load factors on FR flights started without market research (admitted by O'Clown) despite thousands of free tickets handed away in media campaign. Hungarian media is full of delays on first weeks of ops (lack of crew as even hungarians flying for them on other bases refused to "return" home for low salaries) and miserable boarding system used at BUD Terminal 2.
Wizz beat FR with moving to Warsaw Modlin as well (is lower cost a problem theye days??). OLT won't be around for long anyway if they keep wasting money like they do now (check the polish news about their investor). SkyEurope, Air Polonia, Norwegian, Centralwings and the likes were at Chopin as well but you don't see them recently...