From 'Travel Mole':
Wizz Air is to expand its Luton base, with the addition of four aircraft to its Luton fleet by June 2018.
The allocation of four more Airbus A320 aircraft, each equipped with 186 seats, brings the total number of aircraft in Wizz Air's Luton fleet to five.
Five new routes have been added, including daily flights to Larnaca and Bratislava. A four-flights-per-week service to Tallinn and three-per-week to Tirana in Albania and Lviv in Ukraine make up the remaining new routes.
The additional aircraft will also allow an increase in frequency of flights on three of the airlines most popular routes.
Wizz Air is expanding its capacity at Luton by 15% year on year, and will offer in 2018 more than 6.9 million seats on its 46 routes to 20 countries.
Starting spring 2018 flights to Tel Aviv and Suceava become daily, while Prishtina in Kosovo flights will increase from two to three times per week
Over the 12 months to October 31 2017, the airline has carried more than 5.5 million passengers on its Luton routes alone, an increase of 11% compared to 2016, making it the second largest carrier at Luton airport.
The arrival of the new aircraft and additional routes will create 150 new direct local jobs, increasing the number of Wizz Air employees at Luton to 180.
Wizz Air chief corporate officer Owain Jones said: "Our main markets in Central and Eastern Europe are all enjoying strong economic growth. More people want to fly because they can afford to do so. There's growing demand and a lack of supply."
The interesting thing to me is the Larnaca route -
afaik only the second route wholly outside Central/Eastern Europe (the other being Luton-Tel Aviv).