Wizzair to fly from Luton
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WHBM,
I found that as soon as you click on the "departure airport" tab, the drop down menu shows "London-Luton" and "Milan-Bergamo". The rest of the site just talks about London and Milan.
The BA site only shows the airport AFTER you have entered city and date of travel. It also has general tabs on New York, Prague etc.
Maybe Wizzair have updated their website since you last looked.
I found that as soon as you click on the "departure airport" tab, the drop down menu shows "London-Luton" and "Milan-Bergamo". The rest of the site just talks about London and Milan.
The BA site only shows the airport AFTER you have entered city and date of travel. It also has general tabs on New York, Prague etc.
Maybe Wizzair have updated their website since you last looked.
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Some good news for Luton at last.
So summer 04 compared to 03 will show:
Cagliari
Berlin
Budapest
Katowice
Dortmund
Any others that I have forgotten?
So summer 04 compared to 03 will show:
Cagliari
Berlin
Budapest
Katowice
Dortmund
Any others that I have forgotten?
Buster -
Ye-es but....
Reduced Jersey (1 rather than 3 a week)
Dortmund doesn't start until September
ITs look pretty thin, Britannia especially
And if you compute the growth, then compare it with STN for example (or MCR, NCL, EMA, LGW, even COV(!!)), it's not keeping up with industry trends.
The really sad part is that by so many measures, LTN is the second-best positioned of all UK airports after LHR, yet it languishes at eighth-busiest.
'53
Ye-es but....
Reduced Jersey (1 rather than 3 a week)
Dortmund doesn't start until September
ITs look pretty thin, Britannia especially
And if you compute the growth, then compare it with STN for example (or MCR, NCL, EMA, LGW, even COV(!!)), it's not keeping up with industry trends.
The really sad part is that by so many measures, LTN is the second-best positioned of all UK airports after LHR, yet it languishes at eighth-busiest.
'53
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Certainly a shame NOW did not get up and running, but NOW did not include any of WIZZ AIR's destinations in their collection of departures. So I doubt it would have been much of a "head-to-head" on that score between NOW and WIZZ-AIR. There is room for another operator out of Luton to run along side easyJet, as WIZZ-AIR will be coming into Luton and back out. Is the NOW management listening?
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Dear Wizzers,
Just taking a break from the lunchtime Bingo session to point out to all that RE: Existence of their a/c - if you take a look on the airline's website:-
www.wizzair.com
You will see that they have a link to a gallery where you can download some nice (and a few crappy) hi-rez jpgs in zippididoodah format.
These show one of their cabs actually being painted (In Hamburg?) and the finished version. They also claim in the press release shown on:-
www.london-luton.com
To have 6 a/c already.
So there...
Love and kisses,
Fast Eddie
Just taking a break from the lunchtime Bingo session to point out to all that RE: Existence of their a/c - if you take a look on the airline's website:-
www.wizzair.com
You will see that they have a link to a gallery where you can download some nice (and a few crappy) hi-rez jpgs in zippididoodah format.
These show one of their cabs actually being painted (In Hamburg?) and the finished version. They also claim in the press release shown on:-
www.london-luton.com
To have 6 a/c already.
So there...
Love and kisses,
Fast Eddie
Wizz to Budapest too?
In a Hungarian National Tourist Office advert in the Travel section of today's 'Telegraph' they claim that Wizz will be flying Budapest-Luton from 12th May.
Now I don't think the date's right, but the route......?
(It also mentions EZY LTN-BUD from 1st May).
Now I don't think the date's right, but the route......?
(It also mentions EZY LTN-BUD from 1st May).
The Wizz website refers to an agreement recently made with the airport at Gdansk, so hopefully that will be a base for Luton ops too. In their press releases Wizz refer to operating from various Eastern European bases to major EU cities, so presumably the destination points of Rome, Milan, Berlin and London (Luton) will feature from each eastern base?
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Understand five bases within central & eastern europe is the initial target for Wizz, so it would seem likely that LTN could benefit by up to four new routes at least, or five, if allowing Budapest, although this will already be served by easy from 1 May. Understand bookings on that route are selling very well and a second daily service could be on the cards before the year end.
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Daily evening arr/dep into LTN from BUD starting 24 June. Other new routes announced are :-
wef 24/6 Budapest to ATH,GRO,LTN,BVA,PRG,CIA.
wef 1/7 Katowicz to ATH,GRO,DTM,MUC,BVA,CIA,NYO
wef 24/6 Budapest to ATH,GRO,LTN,BVA,PRG,CIA.
wef 1/7 Katowicz to ATH,GRO,DTM,MUC,BVA,CIA,NYO
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Why high risk?
Your excellent post on another thread makes your view a serious one, so please expand on it.
PS I note that Wizz has now dropped plans for KTW-SXF. Were they just too close?
Why high risk?
Your excellent post on another thread makes your view a serious one, so please expand on it.
PS I note that Wizz has now dropped plans for KTW-SXF. Were they just too close?
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Thanks for the compliment LGS 6753. The reason that I think that Wizz might be high risk is that they do not seem to be trading from a position of strength. In my years in the airline business I got to know very well that unless you had trading strengths you tended to get dead very quickly. To succeed Wizz has to get customers. To do that it has to have a public profile in the markets that it serves. What profile does it have in the UK market for example? How does the public get to know that it flies from the UK to Katowice or anywhere else? You give you a good illustration of the risks that it faces in the markets that it plans to serve, justlook what might happen of either Easy jet or Ryanair were to target Wizz markets. There would be a flood of advertising and some stunning introductory offers. That has proved to be a successful formula. How has Wizz advertised in the UK market? Do please remember that the UK market is the largest air transport market in Europe. If an airline reallywants to succeed in Europe it must ultimately succeed in Britain. I have seen nothing yet that suggests that Wizz have taken the necessary steps to achieve that.
I would be very pleased if they succeeded and I am a passionate believer in the prospects of air tarnsport growth in eastern europe. I would also happily help any company to derisk their commercial operations. But so far I see expansion plans that might end in shattered hopes.
I would be very pleased if they succeeded and I am a passionate believer in the prospects of air tarnsport growth in eastern europe. I would also happily help any company to derisk their commercial operations. But so far I see expansion plans that might end in shattered hopes.
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In 1997, who had encountered easyJet? Very few.
Marketing and marketing, busting ones ears with offers and savings. Hearing the easy brand all the time and having a high profile boss made easyJet. It is called playing the media.
No advertising=no airline.
You cannot spend all of your budget on fancy aircraft and paint jobs. Most of the budget has to be spent on making folk aware that you exist, for if they are unaware, you could miss a booking.
I fancy that Wizz are advertising big time in Poland and its neighbouring countries.
Marketing and marketing, busting ones ears with offers and savings. Hearing the easy brand all the time and having a high profile boss made easyJet. It is called playing the media.
No advertising=no airline.
You cannot spend all of your budget on fancy aircraft and paint jobs. Most of the budget has to be spent on making folk aware that you exist, for if they are unaware, you could miss a booking.
I fancy that Wizz are advertising big time in Poland and its neighbouring countries.