All Wizz Air articles – Page 7
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Wizz Air UK to have four A321neos by end of May
Wizz Air’s UK operation will have four new Airbus A321neos in its fleet by the end of May after today carrying out its first flight with the Pratt & Whitney GTF-powered narrowbody.
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Wizz to add new Italian base
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air is opening a new base at Palermo.
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Four-ship Welsh flypast marks Wizz Air UK’s upcoming Cardiff base
Four Wizz Air UK Airbus A321s have marked the upcoming opening of a Cardiff base by conducting a flypast of cities in south Wales. The aircraft formation departed London Luton between 13:45 and 14:00 on 6 March. Wizz Air UK says that, ahead of the base’s opening on 17 May, ...
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Wizz to close Trondheim base
Wizz Air is to close its recently opened Tronheim base as Covid-19 continues to disrupt air travel in Norway.
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Wizz to open Sarajevo base in May
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air is establishing a base in Sarajevo, in an effort to boost its market position in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Wizz Air optimistic that 2021 will be ‘transition’ year
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air is expecting travel limitations to continue impacting capacity levels over much of the its fiscal fourth quarter – the three months from January to March – but adds that 2021 will be a “year of transition” as restrictions ease. Wizz Air gave the outlook ...
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Wizz takes advantage of UAE-Israel ties to open Abu Dhabi-Tel Aviv
Wizz Air is the latest operator to take advantage of the political agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, with plans to serve the Abu Dhabi-Tel Aviv route. The airline will open the connection on 12 February, through its new Middle Eastern division Wizz Air Abu Dhabi. This division, ...
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Ryanair, Wizz ended 2020 with traffic still in the doldrums
Low-cost carriers Ryanair and Wizz Air saw another month of heavy traffic decline in December, as respective passenger numbers fell by 83% and 80% against the same month in 2019.
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Wizz Air Abu Dhabi confirms Athens for first flight
Wizz Air’s new Abu Dhabi unit will operate its first flight on 15 January, to Greek capital Athens, part of an initial network of destinations across the Mediterranean and Caucasus regions. Services to another Greek city, Thessaloniki, will begin on 4 February, to be followed in the coming months by ...
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Wizz Air imposes post-Brexit share restrictions to slash non-EU ownership
Central European budget airline operator Wizz Air Holdings is to implement a plan to align its ownership structure to ensure it continues to meet European Union requirements once the UK’s withdrawal from the EU is finalised on 1 January. Wizz Air Holdings says that, if it does not take action, ...
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In depth
How many jobs have Europe’s airlines cut in 2020?
Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost in Europe’s airline sector since the crisis began, as carriers seek to reduce cash burn and ‘right-size’ for the eventual recovery in demand.
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Fresh Europe travel restrictions ‘worst possible timing’ for airlines: analysts
New restrictions on travel to and from the UK amid concerns over a new Covid-19 variant are the “worst possible timing” for airlines expecting a desperately needed boost in fortunes over the holiday period, in the view of analysts at Bernstein.
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Analysis
Will Europe’s low-cost airlines lead the region out of the crisis?
The possibility that vaccines might begin to have a genuine impact on controlling the pandemic in Europe by the end of the first quarter of 2021 has changed the narrative.
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Wizz creates president role as it recruits senior EasyJet and Vueling executives
Former EasyJet commercial chief Robert Carey is to take up a newly-created role at budget carrier Wizz Air, serving as the company’s president. As part of the change, Wizz Air group chief operations officer Diederik Pen is to step down from his post, to be succeeded by budget carrier Vueling’s ...
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Opportunistic Wizz eyes UK leisure market chance
Wizz Air’s move to launch leisure routes from Cardiff airport next summer marks a further demonstration of how its UK unit is pivoting to take advantage of opportunities that have emerged in the past year.
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Ryanair wins Decade of Airline Excellence Award for Europe region
Recipient of the Decade of Airline Excellence Award for the Europe region, sponsored by Cirium.
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Wizz adds to UK operations with Cardiff base
Wizz Air is further expanding its UK footprint by opening a base at Cardiff airport from which it will initially operate seven routes this summer. The base, operated by its British subsidiary Wizz Air UK, is its fourth in the UK. Alongside its established operation at London Luton, Wizz has ...
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Ryanair and Wizz traffic slips to lowest point since crisis peak
Ryanair and Wizz Air passenger numbers in November slipped to their lowest level since the peak of the pandemic earlier this year, as the low-cost carriers cut capacity amid a swathe of fresh lockdowns and travel restrictions.
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Wizz chief urges airports to end ‘cosy status quo’ with airlines
Airports must reconsider their relationships with incumbent airlines which may not be able to deliver on capacity expectations during the Covid-19 recovery, in the view of Wizz Air chief executive Jozsef Varadi. “In certain places there used to be a cosy set-up, a cosy status quo,” Varadi stated during an ...
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Post-storage A321 aborted take-off over pitot blockage
Wizz Air UK has revised its return-to-service processes after an Airbus A321, whose crew aborted take-off at high speed, was found to have a pitot probe blocked by insect activity. The aircraft (G-WUKJ) had reached 120kt – the V1 decision speed – during its departure roll from runway 20 at ...