Wizz Air

[Jerry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1352187638757908483

 

[nwoody2001]

indeed.... some good boost to capacity for Summer....

Seems Wizz will offer 24x weekly departures to 10x Destinations this Summer.... that's at least 9,000 seats if all are A320s but we know some will be the bigger 220 pax A321s

Not far from a record schedule for them....

 

[Ray Finkle]

Winter now bookable, great to see this years increases continue

https://twitter.com/x/status/1357682638065180673

 

[superking]

Lets hope covid 19 plays ball and these routes operate.

 

[HPsauce]

This is very encouraging news from Wizz. Let's hope it all goes well and we can look forward to more routes in 2022 and dare we say a base at BHX.

 

[Matty_85]

Great news. I’d love them to add Sofia and Kyiv !

 

[IanFarquharson]

Great news. I’d love them to add Sofia and Kyiv !

Wizz dropped Sofia and now Ryanair have too !

 

[Matty_85]

Wizz dropped Sofia and now Ryanair have too !

Oh shame. I didn’t realise Wizz had already tried.... dropped because of pandemic or low loads pre pandemic?

 

[Ray Finkle]

Oh shame. I didn’t realise Wizz had already tried.... dropped because of pandemic or low loads pre pandemic?

Sofia was dropped as part of a base reduction. Quite a few other UK routes were dropped at the same time and even Luton saw a cut in frequency.

I hope they do look at bringing it back if Ryanair have dropped it.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Another update, it would be nice if this was the last one but it's still subject to change.

Budapest - weekly from March 27th, 2x weekly from May
Riga - 2x weekly from June 2nd
Vilnius - weekly from March 27th, 2x weekly from May
Krakow - 2x weekly from March 22nd, 3x weekly from May
Warsaw - weekly from March 19th, 2x weekly in May, 3x weekly from June
Wroclaw - weekly from March 26th, 2x weekly from May
Bucharest - continues at 2x weekly, 4x weekly from the end of April
Cluj-Napoca - weekly from March 28th, 2x weekly from the end of April
Craiova - 2x weekly from April 29th
Iasi - 2x weekly from April 28th

 

[smithy108]

Another update, it would be nice if this was the last one but it's still subject to change.

Budapest - weekly from March 27th, 2x weekly from May
Riga - 2x weekly from June 2nd
Vilnius - weekly from March 27th, 2x weekly from May
Krakow - 2x weekly from March 22nd, 3x weekly from May
Warsaw - weekly from March 19th, 2x weekly in May, 3x weekly from June
Wroclaw - weekly from March 26th, 2x weekly from May
Bucharest - continues at 2x weekly, 4x weekly from the end of April
Cluj-Napoca - weekly from March 28th, 2x weekly from the end of April
Craiova - 2x weekly from April 29th
Iasi - 2x weekly from April 28th

I think this will have to change as the status on allowing International travel isn't being lifted that early. While some of the European countries are keen , will they set vaccination requirements on any visitors?
This bit was clipped from the BBC News coverage

Boris Johnson has said a global travel taskforce would put forward a report by 12 April on how to return to international travel.
The government would then make a decision on removing restrictions on international travel, but not before 17 May at the earliest.

 

[KARFA]

I think this will have to change as the status on allowing International travel isn't being lifted that early. While some of the European countries are keen , will they set vaccination requirements on any visitors?
This bit was clipped from the BBC News coverage

Boris Johnson has said a global travel taskforce would put forward a report by 12 April on how to return to international travel.
The government would then make a decision on removing restrictions on international travel, but not before 17 May at the earliest.

For leisure travel yes it is unlikely to be allowed by March. However, travel for work where needed continues to be allowed so I don't know how sustainable they would be between March and May based on that alone.

 

[Wrightfly73]

I agree as there will be demand for work or other permitted purposes. No flights to Poland have operated for months from BHX. Many people using these flights will be nationals of Poland/Lithuania/Hungary so they will be more than welcome to return. It seems as wizz have recognised this by slowly increasing frequencies. Bucharest has operated throughout and still achieving loads in excess of 200 passengers but at a reduced frequency. Any increase in flights is much needed and with the testing requirements any flights pose less risk than going to Tesco.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Bucharest has operated throughout and still achieving loads in excess of 200 passengers but at a reduced frequency.

I've been keeping an eye on the Blue Air website and Bucharest is still available from March 30th so the inbound demand must be there.

 

[Ray Finkle]

2x weekly Larnaca from May 17th, year round route

 

[Karl C]

That won't stay at two a week I'm thinking....

 

[Nethercote2019]

Is that wizz to LCA ? Or blue air has/had a base

 

[Ray Finkle]

Is that wizz to LCA ? Or blue air has/had a base

Wizz.

The seat map I checked showed an A321.

 

[Ray Finkle]

As I'm bored, the schedule for this summer. Quite a nice little network building now with 26 weekly flights to 11 destinations, we just need a couple of based aircraft, although there are plenty of routes from other Wizz bases that would be most welcome.

Obviously subject to change.

Mon

Warsaw arr 07:40 dep 08:15
Krakow arr 08:00 dep 08:35
Bucharest arr 15:40 dep 16:10
Larnaca arr 19:10 dep 19:50

Tue

Vilnius arr 7:10 dep 07:40
Budapest arr 12:40 dep 13:10
Wroclaw arr 16:10 dep 16:40

Wed

Warsaw arr 07:40 dep 08:15
Krakow arr 08:00 dep 08:35
Bucharest arr 15:40 dep 16:10
Riga arr 17:10 dep 17:40
Iasi arr 21:10 dep 21:40

Thur

Craiova arr 20:20 dep 20:50
Cluj - Napoca arr 21:25 dep 21:55

Fri

Warsaw arr 07:40 dep 08:15
Krakow arr 08:00 dep 08:35
Bucharest arr 15:40 dep 16:10
Larnaca arr 19:10 dep 19:50

Sat

Vilnius arr 7:10 dep 07:40
Budapest arr 12:40 dep 13:10
Wroclaw arr 16:10 dep 16:40

Sun

Bucharest arr 15:40 dep 16:10
Craiova arr 20:20 dep 20:50
Riga arr 20:45 dep 21:15
Iasi arr 21:10 dep 21:40
Cluj - Napoca arr 21:25 dep 21:55

 

[Nethercote2019]

Ray- Is this the good news that was mentioned earlier in the week to be coming next week ?