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Small change when it is backup up with UK Plc government cheap money while many UK businesses are struggling and are going out of business, as they didn’t go into this pandemic with billion of euros stuffed into Jersey bank accounts to avoid tax.
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Not surprising. They’ve failed miserably on more or less everything they’ve done since moving away from the Eastern European market.
There’s only so long you can dump capacity into a non existent market in an attempt to hurt competitors. Their average load out of LGW since they opened the base is 67 passengers, the majority of which would be in the lowest fare bracket.
There’s only so long you can dump capacity into a non existent market in an attempt to hurt competitors. Their average load out of LGW since they opened the base is 67 passengers, the majority of which would be in the lowest fare bracket.
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Also hearing they are far behind Norwegian and SAS on their domestic flights in Norway. Don't think Italy vs. Ryanair, easyJet or Alitalia looks better in terms of load/yield.
At some point they have to make a deciscion to continue losing money or step out.
At some point they have to make a deciscion to continue losing money or step out.
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Wizz have seen the pandemic as an opportunity to dump low fares into a crippled market in the hope of gaining market share and to further impact competitors such as easy, Ryanair, Norwegian and TUI. Unfortunately what they didn’t consider is that this pandemic would go on as long as it has. It’s all very well saying “given the circumstances”, but given the circumstances every other airline has chosen to be cautious. Flying 67 passengers on a 220 seat A321 to the Canary Islands is only sustainable for a certain length of time.
Wizz will never be able to get a foothold in LGW because the existing operators won’t let them. We’ve already seen easyJet take ex-Norwegian short haul slots. I can’t imagine they paid a lot for them - it’s in nobody’s interest for any airline to let Wizzair get a foot in the door, and easy aren’t going to make the same mistake they made in Luton.
Wizz will never be able to get a foothold in LGW because the existing operators won’t let them. We’ve already seen easyJet take ex-Norwegian short haul slots. I can’t imagine they paid a lot for them - it’s in nobody’s interest for any airline to let Wizzair get a foot in the door, and easy aren’t going to make the same mistake they made in Luton.
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Well, Wizz could have made the same move Easy did and buy Norwegian slots,nobody was stopping them, but U2 beat them to the punch..Or maybe Wizz was counting more on the abolishment of the 80-20slot rule for S21..so far they have added one route..LGW-AGP which i don't really understand what it offers with BA,Easy and TUI already flooding the market with seats...
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I think Wizzair decided they'd attempt to get the Norwegian Gatwick slots by dumping capacity into the Norwegian domestic market in an attempt to bankrupt them, and then taking the released slots fairly pain free. This is why it was mutually beneficial for Norwegian to sell/give the slots to easyJet. Keeps Wizz out of LGW and nullifies any real reason for Wizz to hang around in Norway, another market which they've failed miserably in (the Norwegian long haul slots at Gatwick would be fairly useless to Wizz).
