Wizzair
 

Good news for PIK over past couple weeks as Amsterdam and now Gdansk and Warsaw all annouced in past couple weeks.
This is taken from Wizzair Website:
Wizz Air opens new routes to Glasgow Prestwick from Warsaw and Gdansk
Wizz Air, the largest low cost – low fare airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced at press conferences in Glasgow and Gdansk today that it would start new flights between Poland and the UK. Wizz Air will strengthen its positions in Warsaw and Gdansk by introducing flights to Glasgow Prestwick from 28 March 2006.
Wizz Air remains the undisputed market leader in Central and Eastern Europe with close to 1.9 million passengers in 2005, 1.3 million of whom traveled on the airline's Polish routes. In 2005 Wizz Air was one of the fastest growing airlines in Europe with growth rate of 233% over 2004.
The airline has recently made a series of announcements on new destinations across its network including Wroclaw-Dortmund, Gdansk-Liverpool and Gdansk-Lübeck. These flights will commence at the beginning of March. Glasgow Prestwick will be Wizz Air’s first Scottish and third UK city after London Luton and Liverpool served from Poland.
The first flights will take off on 28 March 2006, both of them 3 times a week initially.
Regular one way fares start from as low as GBP 30 including taxes and charges. As an introductory offer a limited number of seats are available at a promotional fare of GBP 20 (including taxes and charges) till 31 January 2006.
József Váradi, Chief Executive Officer of Wizz Air said: "Poland has been rewarding Wizz Air for its continuous commitment and market expansion by flying with us in ever increasing numbers. Today we are offering Glasgow as a brand new UK destination for the Polish people, who can now choose to fly to 3 cities in Great Britain. We are also bringing Poland closer to the citizens of Scotland who will now be able to choose to fly easy and at low fares on our new Airbus A320 aircraft 3 times per week. We are delighted to work with Glasgow Prestwick airport, not only because of their mindset and understanding of the low cost model and particularly Wizz Air’s needs but also, because of their perfect location within Scotland."
Glasgow Prestwick is part of the Infratil Airports Europe group. Infratil Airports Europe Chief Executive Steve Fitzgerald said: "It's "pure dead brilliant" that Wizz has chosen Glasgow Prestwick as the airport to launch into the Scottish market. A low-cost airline needs a fast, friendly and efficient airport, with transport links serving all of Scotland. We are able to offer Wizz exactly that - plus twelve years' experience serving the low-cost sector. It's a real pleasure to welcome Wizz, Central and Eastern Europe's largest low cost airline, and I am confident we will grow together profitably. The fact that we both have bright pink and purple branding is perhaps a good omen for future success! Scotland is a destination that is going to be increasingly popular with people from Central and Eastern Europe and I am confident that Scots will jump at the opportunity to get quickly and inexpensively to great destinations like Warsaw and Gdansk."
Passengers travelling on the new routes are entitled to free rail travel to and from anywhere in Scotland for the first 6 months of operation and half price thereafter. Passengers simply present their official flight confirmation at the airport information desk or any staffed railway station to take advantage of this special offer.

Re: Wizzair launch PIK routes
 

Katowice planned from PIK from late July apparently. Katowice a bit close to Krakow for MOL & FR no doubt!

Re: Wizzair launch PIK routes
 

Let's face it these are not flights for holidaymakers. They are to make sure that my plumber can't speak English!!!! Yaaay globalisation rocks.:)

Re: Wizzair launch PIK routes
 

Looks like Glasgow is going down the same road as Luton, get ready for the massive influx of polish people into bonnie scotland

Re: Wizzair launch PIK routes
 

There are many Polish and Eastern Europeans living and worlking in the big cities here in Scotland already.

Wizzair b
 

What is going on in Wizzair after the new political situation in Hungary? Anyone knows the situation in the company.

New Routes on the Dropdown Menu -

Sofia to:

Frankfurt
Malmo
Paris

No official news though, yet!

Sofia routes
 

toledoashley

Possibly those Sofia flights will just be via Budapest... I can't imagine them introducing Sofia to Malmö direct...

(I wonder will Ryanair ever wish to takeover Wizzair...)

They are not currently bookable and are not in the timetable - just on the bropdown menu for searching flights.

"I wonder will Ryanair ever wish to takeover Wizzair"

Think there has been speculation on this before - they have very similar business models (lowest cost wins), but different fleets, so would FR really want to buy them out? Presumably, as they generally stick to the cheaper secondary airports, what other value would Wizz offer to FR in terms of slots etc?

Looking at gaps in their route network, I think MME has been speculated on, but there is also plenty of untapped demand for routes here in the Midlands. FR have EMA-Poland fairly well covered, and I can't see Wizz using BHX, so how likely would they be to look at CVT? Would there be any technical probs with an A320 on CVT-GDN/WAW?

But a take-over by easyJet (or perhaps some sort of marketing agreement between the two airlines a la Air Berlin / Fly Niki) would make lots of sense, particularly as it is pretty much agreed that easyJet have missed the boat with Eastern Europe.

Heard they are looking into the north east airports also.

Heard NCL may be getting a warsaw route in spring?

Does anyone think they will ever come to dublin...Ryanair have been unable to reach a deal with Katowice, so does anyone think they could take advantage of that?

Very it would seem!

Wizzair have today announced Coventry to Katowice from July 2007.

Coventry Telegraph Story

Wizz Air was set up with the help of an American guy called Bonderman who was one time chairman at Ryanair.

Interesting that Wizz Air operate into a lot of the Ryanair bases/airports such as Liverpool, Luton, Prestwick, Brussels Charleroi, Eindhoven, Gerona, Frankfurt Hahn, Hamburg Lubeck, Paris Beauvais, Malmo, Gothenburg City, Stockholm Skavsta, Oslo Torp, Milan Bergamo and Rome Ciampino.

Gerona
 

Surprisingly though they seem to be moving more towards Barcelona El Prat, and away from Girona...

Katowice to Dublin
 

Central Wings already operate this route.
It is true that the majority of airports that Wizzair operate to are also Ryanair airports. They seem to be one of the few LCCs who aren't afraid of Ryanair. Ryanair surprisingly don't seem that bothered about them operating to Ryanair airports. I thought their starting of flights to Cork this year from Gdansk and Katowice would provoke some response from Ryanair but Ryanair didn't seem to care.

Wizzair have also announced Bournemouth 3 times per week (for Southampton/Portsmouth/Exeter/Bristol region) But this is just the start. They also want to fly BOH-WAW and Gdansk.

Good news. I presume they will wait to see how the 1st route works before launching others?

Any1 know why EGS (Egilstadir) is to find under timetables at the wizz page?

Wizz Air are starting a thrice-weekly Doncaster Sheffield to Gdansk service in July 2007.

Services from Liverpool to both Gdansk and Katowice are being increased from 3 to 5 flights a week.

larshakan -

EGS (Egilstadir) is the largest town in Eastern Iceland. Wizz are running once weekly overnight Sat/Sun flights to/from Katowice.

But I don't know why. (Polish emigres or trips to see reindeer?)

WZZ expects to be carrying around 2.5m annual pax through Luton by Summer 2007 with a number of new routes planned for next year.
;)

A little bird told me today that Durham Tees Valley, as the next UK destination, is to be announced soon? Anyone know any more? :} ;)

Well Peel and Wizz have a good relationship and Wizz are announcing next summer's WAW expansion next week so its quite possible

Cork
 

Does anyone know is there any chance of any more Wizzair routes for Cork?

The purpose of this weekly flight is to exchange the polish workers (blue-collar mostly), who are building aluminium plant somewhere in Iceland, I don't know exactly where.

> OSkar Lima, thx for the info!

Does any1 know since when Milan-Arad is gone from the map and booking engine?

I don't think that there is much chance of anything happening at EMA now that they have announced Coventry, but I have always thought that Wizzair could do well with an EMA to Katowice, Warsaw or Gdansk, because I can't see FR starting these destinations.

SAM-EMA

SAM-EMA

Wizzair aren't interested in EMA due to large Ryanair base.

phil_2405

Has not stopped either airline at the even larger Ryanair base at Liverpool or indeed Luton.

Just look at the shareholders of both Ryanair and Wizz, any of them look familiar? So yes they will work against each other but yes they will line each others pockets.

SAM - Polish routes are very strong performers from EMA. FR have WW well within their sights down at BHX and you can be sure they will give them a good pounding. Likewise they will not let Wizzair get the upper hand from either CVT or DSA. Both Gdansk and Warsaw are both destinations FR fly in to - therefore keep your ears open for future FR expansion from EMA to Poland.

Cheers egnxema

SAM-EMA

Route map
 

In the last week or so Wizz Air have put a new route map on their website. No new destinations or routes, but more countries in Eastern Europe are now visible.

Possibly Wizz Air will announce new routes soon to one / some of these countries?

New countries on the map include:
Ukraine
Finland
Turkey
The Baltics
Russia
North Africa

It could be very interesting indeed. In fact Finland is so underserved by low-cost carriers that anything new will be received very well. Look at Ryanair's load factors to London or Frankfurt-Hahn! Unfortunately FR doesn't want to see the opportunities that could be created if they decided to make ANY links further to the Central and especially SOUTHERN Europe. People in Finland do miss a few sunny days, in particular during the autumn and winter months. ANYTHING counts. For many of us even low-season breaks are very attractive. :O
So, if RYR really doesn't want to start a few routes more, Wizz is welcome as well :D

Ljubljana expansion
 

Someone editing Wikipedia seems to think (know?) that Wizzair plan to shortly introduce:

Ljubljana - Dortmund
Ljubljana - Malmo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brnik_Airport

What are the chances of Wizzair doing a route to CWL as there are a high increase of polish coming to Wales.

:ok:

HI, does any1 know how many aircraft W6 have at each of their bases? What are the delivery dates for those coming 2007?

There was a rumour that Wizz Air were looking at CWL to start some polish routes, but nothing seems to have come about so far.