Wizz Air

[IanFarquharson]

Optimistically, perhaps they are holding back for an even bigger announcement?

Realistically, the BHX marketing and route development team are still on furlough!

Got a chance

 

[Nethercote2019]

Get Kjay on the case..

 

[IanFarquharson]

Get Kjay on the case..

Please dont - all in hand !

 

[Nethercote2019]

 

[Wrightfly73]

Optimistically, perhaps they are holding back for an even bigger announcement?

Realistically, the BHX marketing and route development team are still on furlough!

Hopefully it is a bigger announcement!

The twitter team are still managing to tweet about taking golf clubs on Jet2 though

 

[Mitchhall22]

https://www.facebook.com/birminghamairport/photos/a.131438310253457/3589478057782781

 

[hishaq96]

Any chance of long haul routes from Wizz Air?

 

[Angie88]

I know Berlin & Milan are more likely but is Athens & Lisbon a possibility?

 

[jfy1999]

I know Berlin & Milan are more likely but is Athens & Lisbon a possibility?

Lisbon - already announced from Doncaster so it’s a very big possibility.

Athens - I believe Aegean struggled to get good loads outside of July-August, even with onward connections to other Greek destinations, so I think it might be better served by more of a household name such as easyJet.

I think Berlin might actually be less likely than the others since Wizz don’t fly to the UK from there yet and Germany‘s “green taxes“ are off-putting for low cost airlines right now.

As far as Eastern Europe is concerned, I think the lowest hanging fruit is Chisinau, Kosice, Lublin and Varna which already have flights to DSA and/or LPL. Hopefully we could get Poznań back at some point too.

 

[Brum X]

Any chance of long haul routes from Wizz Air?

Maybe Abu Dhabi when things improve, hopefully ??

 

[Nethercote2019]

Taken From airlinerroutes on line
Wizz Air at the launch of winter 2020/21 season plans additional service expansion to Birmingham, as the airline schedules 2 additional routes, including Craiova and Iasi. Planned operation as follows.

Craiova – Birmingham eff 24OCT20 2 weekly
W63765 CRA1400 – 1525BHX 320 26
W63766 BHX1605 – 2115CRA 320 26

Iasi – Birmingham eff 23OCT20 2 weekly
W63683 IAS1835 – 2005BHX 320 37
W63684 BHX2050 – 0205IAS 320 37

 

[smithy108]

Taken From airlinerroutes on line
Wizz Air at the launch of winter 2020/21 season plans additional service expansion to Birmingham, as the airline schedules 2 additional routes, including Craiova and Iasi. Planned operation as follows.

Craiova – Birmingham eff 24OCT20 2 weekly
W63765 CRA1400 – 1525BHX 320 26
W63766 BHX1605 – 2115CRA 320 26

Iasi – Birmingham eff 23OCT20 2 weekly
W63683 IAS1835 – 2005BHX 320 37
W63684 BHX2050 – 0205IAS 320 37

We must be inching towards justification to open a new base sometime in 2021

 

[IanFarquharson]

We must be inching towards justification to open a new base sometime in 2021

These two new routes were announced a while ago, I think a BHX base all depends on what do at Gatwick.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Iasi now starts 16th Dec.

Craiova still on for this month though (at the moment).

 

[Wrightfly73]

Craiova starts tomorrow!! A glimmer of light in these dark times for aviation. Will be nice to see a new destination on the boards. I'm also told that loads are looking decent for the first flight.

 

[Ray Finkle]

An 'as it stands' update but obviously an ever changing situation.

Budapest - returns on Dec 20th at 2x weekly
Riga - due to start on Dec 18th at 2x weekly
Vilnius - due to start Dec 19th, 3x weekly from Jan 14th
Krakow - returns Dec 17th at 3x weekly, S21 showing 2x weekly
Warsaw Chopin - returns Dec 18th at 3x weekly, S21 showing 2x weekly
Wroclaw - returns Dec 18th at 2x weekly
Bucharest - still operating weekly on a Fri. It goes 2x weekly on Dec 4th and 3x weekly on Dec 23rd
Cluj Napoca - returns Dec 18th at 2x weekly
Craiova - returns Dec 19th at 2x weekly
Iasi - due to start Dec 20th at 2x weekly

 

[Ray Finkle]

Bit of a change with Bucharest as it's now back to 3x weekly.

Nice to finally see something going up rather than down.

 

[Nethercote2019]

I see wizzair & going to introduce fit to fly covid tests by post to your home for £85,

 

[Wrightfly73]

I see wizzair & going to introduce fit to fly covid tests by post to your home for £85,

Very good on Wizzs part, I do think that BHX need to take a look at the testing introduced by LGW and LHR for arriving and departing passengers and get a similar set up in place at BHX to aid the airports recovery. I hope that the airport have something in the pipeline so that BHX won't be left behind yet again. One flaw with the LGW testing is that they only do the test if you're in a car which isn't practical for passengers arriving at the airport by train or another form of transport. I think any potential testing at BHX should be available for foot passengers aswell.

 

[Ray Finkle]

A bit of a mini update as we're hopefully getting closer to the other routes returning. As always it's very much subject to change.

Budapest - Flights on 20th and 23rd Dec before returning 2x weekly on Jan 3rd.
Riga - Still returns on the 18th.
Vilnius - Still returns on the 19th but now 2x weekly for the rest of the winter (3x weekly from April).
Krakow - Flights added on the 16th and 19th, still 3x weekly from then (2x weekly from April).
Warsaw - Flight added on 12th Dec, still 3x weekly from the 18th (2x weekly from April).
Wroclaw - Still 2x weekly from the 18th.
Bucharest - Now back to 3x weekly with an extra flight added this Sunday.
Cluj - Napoca - The return has been bought forward a week to the 11th, still 2x weekly.
Craiova - Been bought forward a week to 12th Dec, still 2x weekly.
Iasi - Also been bought forward a week to 13th Dec, doesn't go 2x weekly until 10th Jan.