Wizzair-3
 

Wizz reporting £219m loss for the first six months of the year.

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.

From Travel Mole:

https://www.travelmole.com/news_feat...ews_id=2045285

Cardiff Base
 

New base at CWL with 9 routes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-wa...mpression=true

Wizzair Air Cymru, could be a specific brand?

why? They already have a UK arm. There is no need for another and it would be a pointless waste of money.

No needs for a seperate AOC, just from a marketing point of view.

Perhaps would not bode well as no operator with "Wales" or "Cymru" painted on the side of the a/c have lasted too long.

Wizz do not seem adverse to a special livery.

How about a large image of a Welsh legend? Perhaps Gareth Edwards, Max Boyce or Vaughan Gething....

Yeah Vague Guessing or even Drippy Drakeford - that’ll get them flying haha (no alcohol to be served though)

Whoever will throw in a couple of quid, it all about getting brand awareness.

Some of the Wizz schedules for 2021 starting to be adjusted/cancelled.
Worth watching...

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.

Is that average pre pandemic? Not likely to get good loads at the moment.

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.

67 sounds quite respectable given the circumstances considering the base only opened towards the end of summer

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.

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...

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).

So are easy one of those pushing for the exemptions to be extended while at the same time buying more slots?

mariofly12

I guess with Norweigian's future up in the air and with Wizz's move to develop UK routes to leisure destinations Gatwick - Malaga is a no-brainer. Over a million people flew the route a few years ago so, theoretically, plenty of market for them to grab.

Update on Wizzair Abu Dhabi from Routes Online:
https://www.routesonline.com/news/29...et-for-launch/

Wizz Air UK are now recruiting cabin crew for all of their bases - LTN, LGW, DSA & CWL.



https://wizzair.com/en-gb/informatio...ght-attendant/

They will also need a few more G- registered aircraft.

Not necessarily. All of their LGW, DSA and CWL (apart from SSH*) routes are to the EU so they can keep the aircraft based there on the Hungarian register.

*Not sure on the requirements for UK-Egypt. Is it possible to keep that route on an EU register?

New base at Sarajevo from mid May

Retrying the Luton - Sarajevo route which FlyBosnia didn't have much success on the other year. FlyBosnia averaged loads of less than 50 pax per flight only a few months after starting the route. Perhaps Wizz's stronger brand and marketing will make a difference?

LGS6753 - One more for the UK arm G-WUKM A321 msn 10283 due late March/April

And another three.

Due to continuation of the slot waiver, being denied any further Gatwick access.

cavokblues

Perversely having left the EU there is now greater scope for Bosnians to move to the UK than when FlyBosnia operated. But perhaps don’t mention that to the Brexiteers

Cardiff
 

Anyone know how the CWL loads are looking?

Anyone have further info on this?
Aside from BAMC, there's no dedicated maintenance space at CWL. Is it St Athan?
https://www.key.aero/article/wizz-ai...12902517034110

Someone has suggested elsewhere that the aircraft could be stored at Cardiff for a bit. It's possible the maintenance part could just be line maintenance related to that maybe.

Storm Aviation. They have a line maintenance base at Cardiff and probably taking the airframes into their care.

G-WUKM was due to be delivered into Luton today, the first A321Neo for Wizzair UK

Arrived LTN 19:57 UTC

Palermo will be a new base with 2 A321 starting June
https://wizzair.com/en-gb/informatio...w-base-palermo

4th aircraft for Tirana with new routes to Italy and Scandinavia
https://wizzair.com/en-gb/informatio...tirana-network