Not sure what you're getting at Buster, part of the Wizz statement in your linked article says - "This decision is unfortunately a result of Doncaster Sheffield Airport indicating that it is unable to guarantee the terms of its commercial agreement with Wizz Air."

If you read the full article, lower down it says it will help Wizz stabilise their programme elsewhere. It's based on a press release so blame someone else first, the first rule of PR.

I’m sure giving their pilots and crew a week’s notice to move their lives down to Crawley will really help retention levels.

Or even Luton, heaven forbid. Seriously I think is more to do with lack of sales on leisure routes. I think somebody said a little while ago there was one route and they hadn't one single sale.

The behaviour and timing of the decision to essentially withdraw Wizz UK operations from Doncaster is both reprehensible and cynical in equal measure. Cynical as this weekend in UK is exactly the right time to "bury bad news" when the media is totally preoccupied with a certain celebration; reprehensible since 7 days is hardly reasonable notice to give; had they announced the base would close in, say 4 weeks, that would at least hive given the passengers unfortunate enough to have paid them good money a chance to make alternative arrangements. I would suggest that the airport management at Cardiff may be worrying more than a little presently.

Given their behaviour I would counsel anyone thinking of doing so from booking Wizz flights unless it were to be 24 / 48 hours ahead of the departure date since they are obviously totally untrustworthy as a business, and frankly make Ryanair and Michael O'Leary appear corporate and personal saints respectively in comparison.

Hungarian Parliament passed a new law to create a departure tax from Hungarian airports. About 10 euros to EU, UK, Ukraine, Moldova, Albania and former Yugoslavia. 25 euros to fly anywhere else from Hungary. Comes into effect in July 2022

I wonder which “supply chain issue” caused only 3 people to turn up to a cabin crew recruitment event in LGW recently, of which none took the job.

Failure of the remuneration supply chain probably

According to their final result notice Wizz Air know just about everything about their people.

"Our team includes more than 50 different nationalities at all levels in the organisation."
"The Wizz Air team includes over 75 different nationalities at all levels in the organization."
"We have recruited in excess of 2,200 staff since the start of the last fiscal year and are
projecting to be a team of 6,700 people by the end of Summer 2022, up from around 4,000
people pre-COVID-19."

As far as I remember the 1000 people fired because of the covid was 19% of the workforce
therefore it was hardly around 4000 pre-covid.

Wizz interview
 

Hello everyone I wish you all well,

anyone help me with advise or tips for wizzinterview in Budapest this month,especially the test
applied as experienced A320 fo

thankyou everyone

Tell them that you are a company person and are more than happy to fly when fatigue sets in.

Wizz Air Bases

Below is a list showing where current fleet of 153x aircraft belonging to Wizz Air, Wizz Air UK and Wizz Air Abu Dhabi are currently based.
I'm sure this number fluctuates a little, but hopefully if gives a good overview (bases with over 5 or 10 aircraft have been highlighted):

Romania - 28
Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) - 11
Cluj-Napoca (CLJ) - 6
Iasi (IAS) - 5
Craiova (CRA) - 2
Timisoara (TSR) - 2
Bacau (BCM) - 1
Sibiu (SBZ) - 1

Poland - 22
Warsaw Chopin (WAW) - 8
Gdansk (GDN) - 6
Katowice (KTW) - 5
Kraków (KRK) - 2
Wroclaw (WRO) - 1

Italy - 19
Rome Fiumicino (FCO) - 5
Milan Malpensa (MXP) - 4
Catania (CTA) - 3
Naples Capodichino (NAP) - 2
Venice Marco Polo (VCE) - 2
Bari (BRI) - 2
Palermo (PMO) - 1

UK - 17
London Luton (LTN) - 11
London Gatwick (LGW) - 5
Cardiff (CWL) - 1

Hungary - 14
Budapest (BUD) - 13
Debrecen DEB - 1

Albania - 8
Tirana (TIA) - 8

Bulgaria - 8
Sofia (SOF) - 6
Varna (VAR) - 2

North Macedonia - 5
Skopje (SKP) - 5

Austria - 4
Vienna (VIE) - 4

UAE - 4
Abu Dhabi (AUH) - 4

Bosnia and Herzegovina - 4
Sarajevo (SJJ) - 2
Tuzla Int'l (TZL) - 2

Serbia - 3
Belgrade (BEG) - 3

Lithuania - 3
Vilnius (VNO) - 3

Cyprus - 2
Larnaca (LCA) - 2

Georgia - 1
Kutaisi (KUT) - 1

Ukraine - 4 (Aircraft are stuck in Ukraine)
Kyiv Igor Sikorsky (IEV) - 3
Lviv (LWO) - 1

Note - 7x aircraft not listed above are currently in maintenance, being repaired or are standby aircraft (in BUD, OTP, GDN, KTW, MXP, KUT)

I see Wizz have launched flights to Nepal from Abu Dhabi.

Can the aircraft they have on order be sent to any of their affiliate operations?

It just feels a bit strange to see them focusing so much on the Middle East. Are they struggling to see growth opportunities within the EU?

Hardly see a great focus in Abu Dhabi. 4 frames which is static number. Just trying new things which LCCs do all the time.
It always going to be tough at that base with competition having very deep pockets.
WUK have taken 4 new frames in 2022 to support their UK operations and the original WZZ have taken new aircraft as well, but returned some older CEOs to leasors.

Probably a knee jerk reaction from me. I just didn't think we would ever see the day with European locos going out to Nepal.

Pegasus Air based in Istanbul fly to Kyrgyzstan.
Vueling used to (I think) fly to Ghana
Air Arabia stretch from Morocco to Bangladesh
Scoot stretch from London to Sydney

Perhaps worth remembering that Budapest is a long way east of the UK, and for people in Wizz's head office, they will tend to look a lot further east than UK residents

Wizzair UK flight from Plovdiv to Luton diverts to Frankfurt
 

Does anyone know why G-UKG is sitting in Frankfurt with passengers being given no information or compensation? The flight on the route PDV-LTN was supposed to arrive before midnight yesterday. I'm worried about my cousins who have been told to 'try and survive' at Frankfurt airport. This is after 3 hours of sitting on the plane at Frankfurt Main and then told they would depart to Luton at 7am, then 2:15pm, now 7pm.

Wizz at Gatwick
 

I've been looking through FR24 on Wizz flights at Gatwick - there seem to be numerous cases of Wizz flights due to go out of LGW to EU destinations in the afternoon departing Gatwick a few hours late, even when the aircraft has been sitting on the ground at Gatwick for a few hours prior to scheduled departure. Yes, it could be aircraft suddenly going tech, but it would be odd for tech issues to be focussed particularly on LGW

Are the delays because of lack of crew ? Something to do with LGW ATC ? Flights being held at the gate to wait for pax who are stuck in security screening queues ? Not enough ground staff to dispatch flights ? Something else ?

Every airline is suffering from all of the above, at the same time. They all have a snowball effect.

A 7th aircraft will be based at Sofia.

In July available capacity exceeded 5 million with 4,760,725 passengers carried (LF 89.7%).

Fleet contains now more than 160 aircraft.

LGW summer delays are nothing new. Pre or post covid. It’s why I deliberately avoid the place in these months because [on easyJet particularly], nothing runs to time.

More bad press for Wizz.

https://ukaviation.news/wizz-air-pil...-for-problems/

Wizz to resume flights to Moscow on 03 October 2022

Rather despicable act when Ukraine is under attack. The airline has no shame.

From where?

Abu Dhabi in the UAE

I hope the airline makes big losses on this route

I am sure if the Eastern European customers knew this of despicable act, they would look to book with another airline. Wizzair boss has lost the plot!

Turkish are flying vast numbers of flights to/from Moscow for Russians, don't stop any Western customers using them for their hols!

I believe all the Gulf airlines continue to fly. dubai is full of Russians

This is an EU airline and sanctions are meant to be in place. This is the airline that had 3 aircraft and staff trapped in Kiev, as Russia sent in invasion forces. The war carries on with thousands of civilians killed that affects the whole world while this airline just doesn’t care, as it heads back into Moscow. Putin’s favourite EU airline no doubt.

Technically only 49pc owned by Wizzair holdings.

It'll be operated by the Abu Dhabi subsidiary, so not an EU airline. We all know sanctions are applied selectively, so not nice but legal.

G-WUKP after arrival to Catania yesterday.

A few LGW routes that were previously on sale for this winter incl SOF and VAR are now not available.