Wizz Air

[Rob c DSA]

Anecdotal evidence I know but over the years I have spoken to many people who travel regularly to the likes of Poland and Romania from LTN when direct flights are available from Birmingham as Luton has a greater choice of frequency and the prices are usually cheaper.

Just as an example a one way flight to Bucharest on Nov 24th with Wizz from BHX is currently showing at £77.99, the same date from Luton is £34.99, less than half the price. From Luton you also have the choice of three flights per day compared to three flights per week from BHX. Even so Wizz generally get good load factors out of Birmingham and seem to be making decent money so the demand must be there but whether a potential BHX base would dilute LTN and to what extent only Wizz would know.

Loads everywhere do seem good for Wizz it's probably the same for each airport they fly to making money wise too with the cheap as chips model they have successfully implemented Europe wide.


I do hope so.

I get the feeling that the next few years will be mostly about LGW, I could see them going very big there. I've always thought that DSA was the most likely candidate for their first base outside of London, it seems a good destination for Wizz.

They look to be open to offers at the moment so who knows what will happen.

Lots of juggling about at the moment and like you say they have said they are open to offers.

I would think any UK base outside of London would be for 2 or 3 aircraft I guess the factor that would possibly play against Birmingham may be if easyJet got in first if they and if Jet 2 increased an already sizeable operation squeezing Wizz out however at present I assume that the airport still has fair amount of scope for more sand and sea after the demise of Monarch and others at the airport. Wizz would be certainly bringing sand and sea on top of the current Eastern Europe schedule the next question would be how they would work a schedule to suit both the summer and winter seasons with the allotted 2-3 based aircraft.

 

[jfy1999]

This is devastating if it is permanent

Just our luck that with explosive growth everywhere else they give all the UK airports the short end of the stick!

Bristol, Edinburgh, Doncaster, Luton, and Liverpool are also losing flights.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1276240862050213891

 

[Brum X]

I wasn't expecting this news tbh

 

[Brum X]

One to watch I think rather than take the above as confirmed ?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1276263646990082049

 

[Ray Finkle]

Deep cuts across the UK with even LTN losing 7 routes so at least we're not alone.

Krakow - Covered (for now) by 3x weekly Ryanair and 2x weekly Jet2.
Warsaw - We still have Ryanair to Modlin although that is down to just twice weekly for winter. There was interest from LOT a few years ago but I wouldn't expect them anytime soon.
Bucharest - From 8 flights per week to nothing, can only hope that Ryanair see potential but I won't hold my breath on that one.
Wroclaw - Could only be Ryanair but again I won't hold my breath for anything.

The losses keep stacking up and the already extensive list of lost destinations just keeps getting longer. Unless they can get some orange tails in sooner rather than later I really don't see where they can go from here.

 

[Wrightfly73]

I think we all need to wait and see on this one. I would be extremely surprised if we lost those routes and what makes me more surprised is which destinations have been dropped as those are the strongest routes, the Bucharest for example has solid passenger figures all year-round, I think if they sent an A330 for that service they'd fill it . I think it is more likely that Wizz are updating frequencies or moving aircraft. Let's all not be too disheartened at this point!

You never know by some miracle we might get some new routes.

 

[Wrightfly73]

ALL WIZZ ROUTES ARE BOOKABLE AGAIN FROM BHX

It looks like W!ZZ were just doing some schedule changes probably due to the changing around of aircraft numbers at certain bases and addition of routes across the network.

Bucharest- Remains 3x Weekly
Operates on Tue, Thur & Sat departing BHX at 21:50.

From 20th July Schedule Change will then operate on Mon, Wed & Fri departing BHX at 20:45*

*Changes to 20:55 from 25th Oct.

Budapest -Remains 2x Weekly
Operates Tue at 18:30 and Sat at 08:30.

From 25th Oct flights depart on Wed & Sun at 18:40.

Cluj-Napoca- Remains 2x Weekly
Operates Wed & Sun departing BHX at 21:05*

*From 28th Oct departs at 21:40.

Warsaw- Remains 2x Weekly
Operates Tue at 19:30 and Sat at 19:50.

From 20th July operates on Mon and Fri departing BHX at 19:10.

Wrocław- Remains 2x Weekly
Operates Mon and Fri at 16:25

Only currently bookable until end of summer schedule.

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Kraków
This route also looks to be remaining at 2x Weekly but schedule still appears to be being loaded as it is currently gappy with no departures in September.

 

[Brum X]

Brum X is a happier boy now, I did say earlier up the page too to watch this one

 

[whateverg]

Phew, I had a feeling it was too bad to be true.

Warsaw and Krakow are both reductions I believe

 

[Ray Finkle]

Woo hoo, good news to head into the weekend.

Wroclaw is now bookable right through until Oct 21.

With three airlines on the route Krakow is probably a sensible reduction, if that's what it needs to avoid being dropped then I'm all for it.

 

[thunderchild]

Good grief!!! I had to double check the date!

Gemma Collins to become the face of budget airline Wizz Air

The self-proclaimed diva, 39, shared her thrilling news to Instagram on Friday, uploading a mock-up of the airline's pink aeroplane with her picture plastered on the side.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Good grief!!! I had to double check the date!

Gemma Collins to become the face of budget airline Wizz Air

The self-proclaimed diva, 39, shared her thrilling news to Instagram on Friday, uploading a mock-up of the airline's pink aeroplane with her picture plastered on the side.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Who's Gemma Collins?

Kevin

 

[thunderchild]

Who's Gemma Collins?

You’re better off not knowing!

 

[richard winterbourn]

Using TV or film personalities to promote a business is a very risky strategy. And while there was a certain charm and authenticity with George Clooney and his Nespresso adverts, i somehow don't think Gemma Collins will cut the mustard with Wizzair. The first, probably tactful, the second, more tacky....

 

[JENNYJET]

Looks desperate to me, though I suppose someone has to front up the publicity and I too have no clue about Ms. Collins and taking Thunderchild advice, I am not going to Wikipedia to find out!

 

[Matt995]

Oh dear personally I am not a fan of Gemma Collins, a z rated celebrity in my eyes, think she's a bit like Marmite, you either love her or hate her!

Guess it might attract people from Essex to fly with Wizz or the young females!! Apparently she tweet about her new deal and spelt the airline "Whizz Air"" need I say more??

Kevin and Jenny, your so lucky not knowing who she is!!!

 

[Ray Finkle]

Another one here who has no idea who she is and from what I've read I don't think I'll bother doing any investigating.

I did notice an advert on the Wizz website with her image in the background, something about a diva travelling from Luton?

 

[Kevin Farnell]

something about a diva travelling from Luton?

Wasn't that Lorraine Chase in a 1980's TV advert? 'Were you whisked here from paradise? Nah, Luton Airport!'

Kevin

 

[JENNYJET]

Yeah!! The great Leonard Rossiter and Cinzano down the boobs of Collins.

Why cannot Birmingham Airport come up with a memorable marketing campaign that Luton stumbled upon and we are talking about today?

 

[Wrightfly73]

We may be seeing a bit more of Wizz Air at Birmingham soon!

I'm hearing that more than just LCA is in the pipeline, I just hope that the route team can get it over the finishing line!

I wonder when we will see the Wizz GC-1 touching down at Birmingham?