Wizz Air welcomes three new European airports to its network
Budapest Airport welcomed the arrival of Wizz Air’s new connection to Faro on 1 April, with the Hungarian gateway also baking a cake to mark the occasion. Seen on the apron in the Hungarian capital to create their moment to remember the new route are Gabor Vasarhelyi, Corporate Communications Manager, Wizz Air and Balázs Bogáts, Head of Airline Development at Budapest Airport. The 2,503-kilometre route will face no direct competition.
Wizz Air inaugurated flights to Santander in Spain on 31 March. On hand to celebrate the new service was Gabor Vasarhelyi, Corporate Communications Manager, Wizz Air, and Miguel Angel Revilla, President of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria. Revilla also handed out goodie bags to the first passengers who had arrived from Warsaw Chopin. The new connection from the Polish capital will be operated by the airline twice-weekly (Mondays and Fridays) on its fleet of A320s facing no direct competition.
Passengers disembarking the inaugural Wizz Air flight between Budapest and Faro were greeted with a bottle of traditional sweet liqueur from the company Farrobinha. Wizz Air will link the Hungarian capital to Faro with a weekly (Saturdays) service.
- Wizz Air added a further 10 routes to its network for the start of S17 this week, joining the 13 routes that it launched last week. Among the routes launched this week, the most significant are those to Faro (FAO), Lamezia Terme (SUF) and Santander (SDR) as these are new airports in the Wizz Air network. The biggest airport to see expansion this week is Budapest (BUD), with it seeing three new routes to Faro, Skopje (SKP) and Podgorica (TGD). Only two routes will see direct competition, with Wizz Air’s new link from Cluj-Napoca (CLJ) to Larnaca (LCA) seeing Blue Air competition from 9 April, the day the later carrier will begin flights on the 1,563-kilometre sector. The average length of Wizz Air’s new routes that launched this week is 1,387 kilometres. With Wizz Air adding Faro, Lamezia Terme and Santander to its network, the airline now serves 124 airports across Europe on over 3,000 weekly flights with London Luton (303 weekly departures), Budapest (202) and Bucharest (176) being its top three airports. Vote for either Lamezia Terme, Faro or Santander’s FTWA in this week’s Arch of Triumph Public Vote. Vote for either Lamezia Terme or Budapest Airport’s cakes in this week’s Cake of the Week Public Vote.
| Launched | From | To | Aircraft (WF) | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28-Mar | Chisinau (KIV) | Barcelona (BCN) | A320 (2) | Air Moldova (2) |
| Cluj-Napoca (CLJ) | Larnaca (LCA) | A320 (3) | Blue Air (3) | |
| Suceava (SCV) | Bologna (BLQ) | |||
| Rome Ciampino (CIA) | ||||
| Tuzla (TZL) | Nuremberg (NUE) | A320 (2) | ||
| 30-Mar | Bucharest (OTP) | Lamezia Terme (SUF) | ||
| 31-Mar | Warsaw Chopin (WAW) | Santander (SDR) | ||
| 01-Apr | Budapest (BUD) | Faro (FAO) | ||
| 02-Apr | Skopje (SKP) | |||
| 03-Apr | Podgorica (TGD) | |||
| Source: OAG Schedules Analyser data for w/c 4 April 2017. WF = Weekly Frequency. | ||||
You forgot to mention that Wizz is opening a destinationa in Asia, namely Astana in Kazakhstan…