Wizzair

[pwalhx]

Liverpool/Manchester

Wizzair seem to brand all their flights to Liverpool as being Liverpool/Manchester.

I flew with them recently, albeit from Luton not Liverpool and was amused by the fact that they dual brand the airport and the destination guide including both cities.

Interestingly they also show Coventry/Birmingham.

I guess this is for the benefit of overseas visitors as it is unlikely to fool the locals.

[Charlie Roy]

In their inflight magazine their Durham page tells all about Newcastle

[TBSC]

• BCN/GRO: don't know why.
• FCO/CIA. It's probably impossible to get new slots (or anyway to increase the number of flights) at CIA, that's why they can add some new routes to FCO only.
• VST/NYO. Trying out Västerĺs and considering a total moving from NYO???

- FCO/CIA : correct
- VST/NYO: don't think so
- BCN/GRO: BCN is used for romanian/bulgarian routes (better for workers), GRO is used for leisure routes from Hungary/Poland (closer to Costa Brava and of course a lot cheaper).

[eu01]

Wizz Air Ukraine opens Kiev base

A new chapter in the low-cost development in Europe?

Wizz Air Ukraine announced at a press conference in Kiev today that it would start operating an initial network of seven Ukrainian domestic routes from its operating base at Kiev Boryspil Airport on 11 July 2008. Wizz Air Ukraine will provide low fare air travel service from Kiev Boryspil Airport to Lviv, Odessa, Simferopol, Kharkov and Zaporozhye. Flights from Lviv and Kharkov to Simferopol, the popular Krym resort will also be available to the Ukrainian travellers.

Wizz Air Ukraine’s new routes include:
Kiev – Lviv 4 flights/week
Kiev - Kharkov 4 flights/week
Kiev - Odessa 7 flights/week
Kyiv - Zaporozhye 3 flights/week
Kiev - Simferopol 10 flights/week
Simferopol – Kharkov 3 flights/week
Simferopol – Lviv 4 flights/week

Ticket sales will be opened on 24 April with all inclusive fares starting from as low as UAH 79.
Wizz Air Ukraine will operate brand new Airbus A320 aircraft configured with 180 leather seats offering low fares and convenient air travel experience to the Ukrainian public.
“Today is a milestone event in the development of Wizz Air as well as for the Ukrainian traveling public. Wizz Air Ukraine’s high quality service and low fares will change the dynamics of the Ukrainian transportation market. Now all those who never thought of flying before will have the opportunity to travel fast, safely and comfortably on our new Airbus A320 aircraft for the fraction of the current prices.” - said Natália Kázmér, Director General of Wizz Air Ukraine. “Wizz Air Ukraine has ambitious plans to quickly expand its operations by adding international routes and more domestic services, opening further operating bases in various regions in Ukraine and ultimately deploying an increasing number of aircraft.” - she added.

Undoubtlessly, it's a truely innovative move on the part of lccs trying to explore a vast potential out there. Which will be the first lo-co to snatch a piece of a (much bigger) Russian market?

[Buster the Bear]

Well they call Luton, London...or is it, London-Luton?

Liverpool to Manchester is a similar distance (city to city).

Lviv, that will please my friend if they venture towards London....Luton!

[JulietNovemberPapa]

Excellent news!

The article stated that the flights would be bookable from the 24th April = yesterday. But nothing's yet loaded on its website. Anyone know why?

Anyone know what W6's CASM is?

[JulietNovemberPapa]

OK, it's all loaded now. Woohoo.

[DTVAirport]

Are Wizz pulling an aircraft out of Warsaw? Hopefully it's nothing, but MME, BFS and DTM are only bookable until mid-September, along with their summer only routes (BOJ, CFU etc) and PIK, LPL and LTN are all losing rotations? Does anyone know anything?

[en2r]

Are Wizz pulling an aircraft out of Warsaw? Hopefully it's nothing, but MME, BFS and DTM are only bookable until mid-September, along with their summer only routes (BOJ, CFU etc) and PIK, LPL and LTN are all losing rotations? Does anyone know anything?

I doubt it. Centralwings are after axing a significant proportion of its Polish based network so presumably Wizz will want to capitalise on this. They're probably just late loading the routes. Wizz are often quite late loading routes.

[LGS6753]

It could be true

There have been a number of services from Gdansk axed recently (see Gdansk thread). If the some of the massive wave of Polish immigrants is returning to their homeland, demand on all Polish routes will diminish.

I think Centralwings must be a basket case (their CEO seems to think so), so Wizz may pick up pax from them, but if the market is shrinking, the contraction of CW may not help overall.

[kingston_toon]

All change in Ukraine already

It looks like Wizz have had a bit of a shuffle around before the first flight has even taken off!

Originally, they planned to do this:

Route Frequency
Kiev – Lviv 4 flights/week
Kiev - Kharkov 4 flights/week
Kiev - Odessa 7 flights/week
Kyiv - Zaporozhye 3 flights/week
Kiev - Simferopol 10 flights/week
Simferopol – Kharkov 3 flights/week
Simferopol – Lviv 4 flights/week

Now they are doing this:

Route Frequency
Kiev – Lviv 6 flights/week
Kiev - Kharkov 0 flights/week
Kiev - Odessa 6 flights/week
Kyiv - Zaporozhye 0 flights/week
Kiev - Simferopol 8 flights/week
Simferopol – Kharkov 0 flights/week
Simferopol – Lviv 8 flights/week

So some winners (Simferopol to Lviv) and some losers (Zaporozhye and Kharkov completely). Seems they are going for the bucket-and-spade market, rather than linking cities.

[aeroarce]

wizzair 2009

Hi you all!
Wizzair was supossed to receive 8 or 9 aircrafts in 2009, and I've recently heard that they may cancel some of them and may only receive 2 aircrafts.
Does anyone have any more information?
I know they are having finacial problems. but are so big so as to cut so many aircrafts?
Thank you very much!

[LGS6753]

What makes you think they are having financial problems?

[aeroarce]

As long as I Know

Well, as long as I know they are cutting all the office personal they can and also the Fuel charges are reising a lot.

[Powerjet1]

Apologies if this has been reported before, but it seems that the Katowice-LGW is "pulled", and is no longer bookable. When did his happen ?

[eu01]

Wizz Air Ukraine launches international flights from Kiev

I wouldn't say it's something "breathtaking", but Wizzair's development in Ukraine should be watched very carefully, they are trying to be the low-cost leader not only in Central Europe, but more to the East as well... and it's a vast market.

Wizz Air Ukraine, the first low fare - low cost airline in Ukraine announced during the airline’s Kiev-Odessa-Kiev demonstration flight today that it intended to operate international routes to London Luton, Dortmund and Milan Bergamo from its Kiev base later this year. The company will provide affordable and comfortable travel to many Ukrainian holidaymakers and millions of students and workers who live abroad and will now have the opportunity to travel back to Ukraine for less and consequently more often. The new flights are planned to start from 15 September and will complement the airline’s domestic network. The start of ticket sales for the international flights remains subject to regulatory approvals expected to take place in the course of July.

Wizz Air Ukraine’s [international] schedule:

Kiev - London Luton* 3 flights/week
Kiev - Dortmund* 3 flights/week
Kiev - Milan Bergamo* 3 flights/week
*Subject to regulatory approvals

(...)
"Today's announcement of our intent to launch international routes from Kiev and the very first Wizz Air Kiev-Odessa demonstration flights are new milestones in the development of Wizz Air Ukraine. We are pleased to make the next steps as we have been experiencing excessive demand for low fare air tickets by the Ukrainian people since we started sales a couple of weeks ago." – said Natasa Kázmér, Director General of Wizz Air Ukraine.

[TBSC]

Wizzair was supossed to receive 8 or 9 aircrafts in 2009, and I've recently heard that they may cancel some of them and may only receive 2 aircrafts.

Well, as long as I know they are cutting all the office personal they can

Company actually trying to have earlier deliveries for all a/c planned for 2009 (maybe you mean SkyEurope ?? ). Not a single job has been cut, only a hiring ban took place recently on office jobs.

[TBSC]

Apologies if this has been reported before, but it seems that the Katowice-LGW is "pulled", and is no longer bookable.

It was only to keep Ryanair off from KTW anyway.

[mmeteesside]

Anyone know whether Wizz are just late loading routes or if Warsaw to Belfast, Bourgas, Brussels-Charleroi, Corfu, Cork, Durham Tees Valley are all dropped after the week ending 14th September? All other routes from Warsaw are bookable until the end of the summer in October (with the exception of Luton which is until end of March 2009).

[Coka]

What do you think how will Wizzair perform in this high fuel prices environment. It is obvious now that it is a downturn in economy and airline industry. Wizzair is going for quite a big market (Eastern Europe), that is true, but majority of people in the east can afford to spend much less on travel then the guys in the west. If oil price is high inflation goes up and people have even less extra money to spend on travel. Wizzair ordered a lot’s of Airbuses! Will they cancel the orders, will they delay planes, will they go for 82 airplanes or will they stick with 20 plus or minus that they have now? What do you think?