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@ airman13
My understanding is that Wizz will base a second A320 at Bucarest and a first A320 at Cluj Napoca. |
Wizzair Email
Hello everybody !
Maybe a little bit off topic ... but I need your help. Anybody here having the email of the human resources department of wizzair. Feel free to send me a pm. I do not mean the email [email protected] . Need something for groundstaff and so on. Anybody here knows if the have part-time positions for students at their bases ? Thanks everybody !!!!! |
New route (I think)
Warsaw to Doncaster
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Warsaw to Doncaster is indeed a new route, announced today (3x per week from 1st April 2008).
Wizzair currently have scheduled 90 flights per week into Luton for summer 2008, excluding any new destinations (of which a further 2 are likely to be announced shortly). |
What might the 2 new routes be? SJJ and SKP?
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Bourgas is back for S08, LTN 3 x weekly starting 12 May.
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rumour has it that wizz is to start either poznan or budapest from coventry next year. is this just rumours or is there any truth in this comment.
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Is that really a good idea, when Ryanair have just started both BUD and POZ from EMA, which is not far at all from COV. When will other smaller airlines learn, Ryanair will just undercut them till the route is dropped. (If you want more proof about how Ryanair are not invincible look how Aer Arann, a small Irish airline which uses turboprops has remained on the Cork-Dublin in the face of huge competition on the route from Ryanair. They achieve higher load factors on the route than FR despite the fact that their fares are several multiples of those of Ryanair! Bully boy tactics don't always work) |
I would have thought that FR's biggest competiter on the EMA-POZ would be W6 from DSA?
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W6 vs FR
@en2r: Minor point: FR have never flown from Stockholm to Krakow. It has also worked the other way too, with W6 dropping HHN-BUD just as FR started flying the route.
In my view, FR vs W6 will be a key battle over the next couple of years (if it lasts that long). Both airlines have flooded the UK - Poland market with capacity and have emerged as the market leaders. The most recent figures (Q1 2007) showed that FR were already Poland's second largest airline by passengers carried, behind LOT and just ahead of W6, despite not having any aircraft based there. I can see Wizzair becoming an increasing source of irritation to FR as they ramp up the number of connections from traditional FR airports (BOH, PIK, LPL, CRL, NYO etc) on routes that FR might have planned for themselves in the future. I have still to see any evidence that Wizzair have made a single penny of profit so far. So far they are still running on private money. There was talk earlier this year of a possible floatation, but this hasn't happened. How deep are those pockets? |
I get the impression that the big boys at Ryanair seem to have decided to let Wizz Air be for the moment, letting them establish and have free reign on many Ryanair-esque routes. With the strategy being that once the routes are nicely established, Ryanair'll move in for the kill and in one year wipe them out, taking over all their routes.
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I take it one advantage Wizz has over FR is Eastern European bases, with crew being cheaper to employ in Eastern rather Western Europe
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Originally Posted by airhumberside
(Post 3758268)
I take it one advantage Wizz has over FR is Eastern European bases, with crew being cheaper to employ in Eastern rather Western Europe
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New Kiev Base
WizzAir is said to announce a new base in Kiev soon. They want to start serving Ukraine this year. They are now recruiting the crew. It is believed that at the biginning there will be one aircraft in this base flying to Katowice to make the passangers able to change the planes for another W6 flights out of KTW. WizzAir will set up a new brand called WizzAir Ukraine. A week before there was a meeting between Polish and Ukrainian goverments making KTW and KRK next Polish airports to be able to serve flights to Ukraine so that makes this rumour more believeble. In My opinion it is a great step for WizzAir to be the first LCC in Ukraine.
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Wizzair in Finland
Last Wednesday Wizzair has started flying to Finland and its very first route links Gdansk to Turku (where it became the first airline to use a new low-cost terminal). It will be interesting to observe the development here, because until now just one truely no-frills carrier is known in Finland (Ryanair flying to TMP).
As far as I know the bookings are going well and (assuming travel forums are relevant as the opinion polls) some other typical Wizzair destinations like BUD, Bulgarian coast or KTW/Krakow could also become popular here. :D Btw (edit). It's interesting to estimate the travellers' preferencies by counting the hits received by different countries on travel forums (like in Finland Suomi24.fi/matkailu). Spain, Italy, Bulgaria(!) and Turkey get the most. |
Why Finnish people love Bulgaria?
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Why Finnish people love Bulgaria? |
Loving the Wizzair advertisement on their homepage!
Liverpool/Manchester;) - Warsaw and Katowice. :}:}:} |
Strange to see Wizz spliting thier routes between 2 airports for some destinations:
Barcelona: BCN + GRO Rome: FCO + CIA Stockholm: VST + NYO |
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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. |
In their inflight magazine their Durham page tells all about Newcastle :}
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- 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). |
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. |
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! |
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? |
OK, it's all loaded now. Woohoo.
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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?
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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? |
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. |
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. |
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! |
What makes you think they are having financial problems?
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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.
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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 ?
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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. |
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 |
Apologies if this has been reported before, but it seems that the Katowice-LGW is "pulled", and is no longer bookable. |
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). :confused:
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Wizzair
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?
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