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Old 22nd Aug 2019, 16:00
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Originally Posted by tophat27dt
And now Ryanair announce they will start 5x weekly to Bucharest and 3x weekly to Vilnius. Am I missing something as to why?
Defending Fortress STN from attack to the east and west? Great news for Essex residents though looking to tick Lithuania and Romania off the list...I forecast £10 returns this winter.

Hopefully FR’s outbound times will be kinder than Wizz’s 3am arrival.
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Old 23rd Aug 2019, 10:14
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2 new Routes

Kutaisi - Bologna (23/11/2019)
Kutaisi - Cologne/Bonn (01/07/2020)
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Old 3rd Sep 2019, 16:05
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NEW ROUTESDAYSSTARTS
WARSAW – BOLOGNA Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 2 June 2020
WARSAW – TENERIFE Tuesday, Saturday 2 June 2020
WARSAW – MADRID Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday 1 June 2020
WARSAW – TURKU Wednesday, Sunday 4 June 2020
GDANSK – BARI Monday, Friday 1 June 2020
KRAKOW – TRONDHEIM Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 2 July 2020
KRAKOW – VERONA Wednesday, Sunday 2 August 2020
KRAKOW – BARCELONA Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday 1 July 2020
KRAKOW – BERGEN Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 1 August 2020
KRAKOW – MILAN Daily 1 July 2020
KRAKOW – BOLOGNA Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 1 August 2020
KRAKOW – HAUGESUND Monday, Friday 3 August 2020
KRAKOW – STAVANGER Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 1 August 2020
KRAKOW – LONDON GATWICK Daily 23 February 2020
KRAKOW – TROMSO Wednesday, Sunday 2 August 2020

WIZZ AIR’S FREQUENCY INCREASES ON EXISTING GDANSK ROUTES:
ROUTEFREQUENCY UPDATE
GDANSK – OSLO7x → 10x
GDANSK – ALESUND7x → 10x
GDANSK – MALMÖ5x → 7x
GDANSK – STAVANGER5x → 7x
GDANSK – BREMEN2x → 3x
GDANSK – BODO2x → 3x
GDANSK – KEFLAVIK3x → 4x
GDANSK – TRONDHEIM3x → 4x
GDANSK – HAUGESUND5x → 7x
KRAKOW – ROME5x → 7x
KRAKOW – BARI3x → 4x
KRAKOW – KUTAISI2x → 3x
WARSAW – KUTAISI3x → 4x
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Old 3rd Sep 2019, 17:55
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2 more a/c for KRK, one more each for GDN and WAW
https://wizzair.com/en-gb/informatio...-13-new-routes
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Old 18th Sep 2019, 14:40
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https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-soc...l-flights.html
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Old 19th Sep 2019, 10:51
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new route

Bucharest to Lyon

From June 2020
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Old 19th Sep 2019, 17:04
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Great to have another route from LYS (OTP, adding to existing BEG and WAW). About time there was a choice other than EasyJet at what is a pretty uncompetitive airport.
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Old 23rd Sep 2019, 16:50
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NEW LUTON ROUTE
Twice weekly flights to Tenerife are to start on 16 November increasing to three weekly in December.
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Old 24th Sep 2019, 10:19
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Originally Posted by racedo
Interesting conversation with some Wizzair crew who happened to be at same airport I was at, they delayed and we all in coffee shop and knew some mutual friends.

They Katowice based and senior guy said Wizzair opened up base in Krakow because Ryanair requesting slots and planned to base 8 aircraft at Katowice.
Met and shared coffee with couple of same people last week. They live in Katowice but indicated that pretty much only growth around there was at Krakow with a forecast Ryanair 10 aircraft at Katowice, this may be old plan because of the Max situation but they forecast very little growth from Wizz in Katowice next year. Journey times to either airport is pretty much the same from Katowice but some don't wish to transfer.
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Old 26th Sep 2019, 22:14
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Seems like Wizz Air are keen to continue growing its operation at London Gatwick, and want to buy up Thomas Cook slots!

Financial Times - Virgin and Wizz Air eye Thomas Cook’s Gatwick daily slots

Thomas Cook had around 8-10 aircraft based at Gatwick, if Wizz were keen to buy enough slots, they could possibly open a second London base, and expand their UK registered airline further.

They currently have eleven UK registered aircraft based at Luton, but as the airport reaches its 18 million passengers per annum cap, they will need to grow operations from other London airports, if they want to expand further.
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Old 27th Sep 2019, 07:15
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Originally Posted by gilesdavies
Seems like Wizz Air are keen to continue growing its operation at London Gatwick, and want to buy up Thomas Cook slots!

Financial Times - Virgin and Wizz Air eye Thomas Cook’s Gatwick daily slots

Thomas Cook had around 8-10 aircraft based at Gatwick, if Wizz were keen to buy enough slots, they could possibly open a second London base, and expand their UK registered airline further.

They currently have eleven UK registered aircraft based at Luton, but as the airport reaches its 18 million passengers per annum cap, they will need to grow operations from other London airports, if they want to expand further.
Hence it's commencing operations from SEN in the near future.
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Old 3rd Oct 2019, 16:26
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14th aircraft for Budapest in June 2020
https://wizzair.com/en-gb/informatio...-budapest-base

12th aircraft for Bucharest in June 2020
https://wizzair.com/en-gb/informatio...s-in-bucharest

3rd A320 for Iasi in August 2020
https://wizzair.com/en-gb/informatio...d-6-new-routes


In August Wizz passed 4 million passengers per month for the first time with double digit growth rates.
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Old 25th Oct 2019, 15:24
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Let the Wizz v Ryanair (Buzz) battle properly commence!

So Ryanair are closing their Budapest base down from the the 1st December, and then the airline will immediately re-open the base with its newly created "Buzz" airline, which is a fully owned subsidiary of Ryanair.

All routes Ryanair currently flies witj Budapest based aircraft will now be operated by Buzz.

Reading the below news article, it seems Ryanair has a higher cost base than Wizzair, but by operating a new airline based in Hungary they can lower these costs to match/best Wizzair.

Hope this doesn't mean crew and staff will be forced to accept lower pay and poorer working conditions?!

https://dailynewshungary.com/ryanair-to-shut-down-its-base-in-budapest/



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Old 25th Oct 2019, 16:25
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Originally Posted by gilesdavies
Hope this doesn't mean crew and staff will be forced to accept lower pay and poorer working conditions?!

https://dailynewshungary.com/ryanair-to-shut-down-its-base-in-budapest/
Of course it does, that’s the driving force in the lower cost than FR mainline
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Old 26th Oct 2019, 16:09
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Budapest Business Journal reporting Wizzair do have ambitions to India & North America with 321XLR and another new base to be announced soon.
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Old 29th Oct 2019, 18:31
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Ukrainian city Zaporizhzhya joins the network next summer
https://wizzair.com/en-gb/informatio...m-zaporizhzhya

For all of us who are not so familiar naming the largest cities in the Ukraine:
Kiev 2.9 million
Kharkiv 1.4 million
Odessa 1 million
Dnipropetrovsk 1 million
Donetsk 0.9 million
Zaporizhzhya 0.75 million
Lviv 0.73 million

Wizz don't fly to Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk wheras FR will launch Kherson (0.3 million).
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Old 29th Oct 2019, 21:22
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G-WUKB successfully escaped from Luton, re-registered to HA-LSC.
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Old 29th Oct 2019, 22:31
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Originally Posted by Seljuk22
Ukrainian city Zaporizhzhya joins the network next summer
https://wizzair.com/en-gb/informatio...m-zaporizhzhya

For all of us who are not so familiar naming the largest cities in the Ukraine:
Kiev 2.9 million
Kharkiv 1.4 million
Odessa 1 million
Dnipropetrovsk 1 million
Donetsk 0.9 million
Zaporizhzhya 0.75 million
Lviv 0.73 million

Wizz don't fly to Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk wheras FR will launch Kherson (0.3 million).
Those population numbers are not real. 2.5 million Ukrainians live in Poland at a minimum, add in those who moved to Russia believed to be close to 2 million then there is no way the population is evern close to the Govt stated figure of 43 Million.
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Air Astana are to replace a 757 between London and Astana / Nur-Sultan in Kazakhstan with an A321. I wonder what Wizz plans to do with their A321XLRs currently on order once they are delivered...
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Old 5th Nov 2019, 19:32
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Grrr

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Air Astana are to replace a 757 between London and Astana / Nur-Sultan in Kazakhstan with an A321. I wonder what Wizz plans to do with their A321XLRs currently on order once they are delivered...
India has been mentioned.
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