Birmingham: Wizz Air Flights, New Routes & Schedule Updates

[nwoody2001]

Wizz announce new BHX-KRK route.

A321 3x weekly (Tu/Th/Sa) going up against 3x weekly Ryanair...

Great to see growth on a popular route that's been stagnant for years at 2x weekly.... now we have 6x weekly flights....

https://wizzair.com/en-gb/informati...ir-announces-further-developments-in-krakow#/

 

[jfy1999]

8x weekly overall - don't forget Jet2!

 

[nwoody2001]

Of course....

So for BHX-KRK Winter'19

Wizz = Tu/Th/Sa (1,430 seats a week)
Ryainair = Mo/Fr/Sun (1,130 seats a week)
Jet2.com = Mo/Fr (760 seats a week)

Total = 8x flights ( 3,320 seats a week)

 

[Ray Finkle]

Great to see growth on a popular route that's been stagnant for years at 2x weekly.... now we have 6x weekly flights....

Not that I am complaining but it would be nice to see growth on Gdansk and Katowice which have also been stagnant for many years.

That's four Wizz routes, Bucharest, Budapest, Warsaw and now Krakow, using the A321.

 

[JENNYJET]

A service into Russia? So close but why no interest?

 

[nwoody2001]

Russia - UK/USA/General west aren't the best right now....

 

[nwoody2001]

BHX press release here.....

https://www.birminghamairport.co.uk...-new-low-fare-services-from-the-uk-to-Poland/

The press release refers to Gdansk also but I think this is more a slip-up???

 

[Ray Finkle]

The press release refers to Gdansk also but I think this is more a slip-up???

The bit from the Wizz MD may have been from a general press release regarding Poland as they also announced a daily Gdansk-LGW service.

I still think that Wizz could do well adding capacity to Gdansk and Katowice which both seem well under served from Birmingham. It would also be nice to see them take on Vilnius and dare I say it, Riga?

 

[nwoody2001]

...I would happily let them replicate their LPL or DSA networks to BHX.....

 

[Matt995]

2 new routes in one day!!! wow!!

current Krakow summer 2019 timetable :-

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[Brum X]

A good news day at BHX. I didnt see that coming 👍

 

[Ianbutty]

Hang on: has the BHX forum changed to another airport? Everyone is smiling as new routes are announced.

Cool.

🙂

Whatever next: JetBlue daily to ORLANDO? 🤔

 

[andrew.clarkson]

Hi there Ianbutty, I agree on the Jet blue to Orlando daily, but I can't see it happening at all, like I have said many times before, until bhx management wake up and realise and understand that until they change there landing fees price structure policy, to a more simpler one, then Birmingham airport is going to find it hard to attract new or previous airlines back to bhx. Because bhx pricing fees are the reason why airlines do want to do business with them. For example, because of bad weather you are advised and told to divert to Birmingham airport, straight away, once you have landed, you are them subjected to there landing fees policy of £13.00 per tonne or part, so depending on the weight of the aircraft has landed will depend on the cost. So for every tonne of weight landed, it will cost the airline £13.00, so landing a 580 tonnes of a380 will cost you what.? Andyc

 

[IanFarquharson]

Not sure why this in the Wizz thread but JetBlue will not do Orlando from BHX but places like New York and Boston.
I don't see this happening at the meeting next month but I can see BHX in round 2 of Euro destinations.

 

[Matt995]

would be nice to see a daily service to Budapest, how are the Wizz routes doing in general? An increased frequency on their flights would be handy!

 

[Ianbutty]

Sorry but I was joking about Orlando! !😒

 

[IanFarquharson]

Wizz new route ?

Wroclaw in winter arrives BHX 16.00 and departs 22.00 which indicates another route of around 2 hours 15 minutes to be added.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Wroclaw in winter arrives BHX 16.00 and departs 22.00 which indicates another route of around 2 hours 15 minutes to be added.

Rather than opening a new market to a currently unserved destination we'll probably end up with a third airline on Vienna 🙄

 

[Ray Finkle]

New route (that's right NEW route) to Poznan.

Starts Sept 16th on Mon and Fri.

BHX 16:55 POZ 20:00
POZ 20:30 BHX 21:50

Oct 29th it then changes to Tue and Sat to utilise the gap in the Wroclaw schedule.

BHX 16:30 POZ 19:35
POZ 20:05 BHX 21:30

Not sure how it's going to operate from Sept 16th to Oct, will have a proper look at the times later.

 

[IanFarquharson]

New route (that's right NEW route) to Poznan.

Starts Sept 16th on Mon and Fri.

BHX 16:55 POZ 20:00
POZ 20:30 BHX 21:50

Oct 29th it then changes to Tue and Sat to utilise the gap in the Wroclaw schedule.

BHX 16:30 POZ 19:35
POZ 20:05 BHX 21:30

Not sure how it's going to operate from Sept 16th to Oct, will have a proper look at the times later.

Well re-instated route not new !
But great news