Budapest, Hungary, 2015-2-24 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*,has announced today that, reflecting customer demand, it will open its base in Kosice, Slovakia on 5 June, 3 months earlier than originally planned. The airline also announced an increase in weekly flights on the London Luton service,… Read the full press release
AND CONTINUES TO OPERATE 6 ROUTES TO 5 COUNTRIES FROM GOTHENBURG Budapest, Hungary, 2015-2-3 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe,* announced today that due to the permanent closure of Gothenburg City Airport (GSE) as of 1 February the airline will permanently move all operations to a… Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2015-1-28 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe,* today announced that it will open its 20th base in Kosice, Slovakia with one new Airbus A320 on 14 September. Coinciding with the delivery of the aircraft the airline will start operating 2 new routes from Kosice… Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2015-1-28 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, announced today that due to planned runway works at Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport between 13 and 14 June 2015, the airline will be operating a reduced flight schedule from Bydgoszcz Airport (BZG), located 2 hours away from… Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2015-1-23 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe,* today announced further expansion in Macedonia. The airline will deploy a third Airbus A320 aircraft at its Skopje base from 29 June adding 5 new services from the Macedonian capital to Friedrischshafen, Oslo-Torp, Barcelona, Hamburg Luebeck and… Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2015-1-14 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, announced today that it carried 15.8 million passengers in 2014, representing 17% passenger growth year on year. At year-end, the airline had flights on sale to 106 destinations in 37 countries on a total of 355 routes…. Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2014-12-18 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced two new services from Budapest to Hurghada in Egypt and to Alghero in Italy for the 2015 summer season. The new routes will commence on 16 May and 15 June respectively. Wizz Air is… Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2014-11-25 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today announced that, for the first time in its 10 year history, it has operated 100,000 flights over a 12 month period. This represents almost 30 billion flown seat kilometers and over 1.3 million crew hours… Read the full press release
AFFORDABLE CAR RENTALS AT 106 WIZZ DESTINATIONS IN 36 COUNTRIES Budapest, Hungary, 2014-11-13 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today announced a recently signed partnership with rentalcars.com as its car rental booking platform. During the flight booking process, WIZZ customers will be offered the option… Read the full press release
1 BASED A320 IN TUZLA, 4 NEW ROUTES Budapest, Hungary, 2014-11-7 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today announced further expansion in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The airline will deploy 1 new Airbus A320 aircraft in Tuzla in June 2015 whenTuzla will become Wizz Air’s 19th base…. Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2014-10-7 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Tours, the flight & hotel booking platform powered by Wizz Air, today celebrates its first anniversary. Wizz Tours was launched in October 2013 to bring more convenience and savings to holidaymakers*, by pairing Wizz Air’s low fares to many international destinations, offering great value holiday packages. Relying… Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2014-9-22 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Hungarian Ministry ofForeign Affairs and Trade, the University of Debrecen and Pharma-Flight Kft., to establish an ATO-certified pilot school for talented individuals willing to pursue a career in aviation…. Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2014-9-18 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost, low-fare airline in Central and Eastern Europe, announced today that it had entered into a sale and leaseback agreement with Goshawk Aviation Limited (‘Goshawk’) for seven new Airbus A320 aircraft. The airplanes are planned for delivery between November 2014 and June 2015. This… Read the full press release
IASI BECOMES 8TH WIZZ AIRPORT Bucharest, Romania, 2014-9-11 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today announced further expansion in Romania. This news follows theannouncement of 13 new routes and additional based aircraft in Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara just a month ago. The airline will deploy 1 new… Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2014-9-3 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today launched its live Flight Information tool on wizzair.com. The Flight Information tool allows passengers to check the status of their flights in real time, conveniently displaying all on time flights of the day and any delayed or… Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2014-8-26 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today announced further expansion in Budapest. From 15 May 2015 the airline will deploy a ninth Airbus A320 aircraft and open new services to Lisbon and Maastricht starting on 30 March and 15 May, respectively. Wizz Air… Read the full press release
1 NEW AIRCRAFT; 3 NEW ROUTES AND MORE FLIGHTS ON POPULAR ROUTES RIGA, Latvia, 2014-8-11 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe,* today announced further expansion in Riga. The airline will deploy a second Airbus A320 aircraft at Riga Airport from 22 April 2015 adding 3 new… Read the full press release
3 NEW ROUTES AND FREQUENCY INCREASES FROM APRIL 2015 VILNIUS, Lithuania, 2014-8-11 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today announced further expansion of its low fare route network in Lithuania. From 22 April 2015 the airline will start operating flights from Vilnius to Frankfurt Hahn three… Read the full press release
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2014-8-6 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today announced a new route from Belfast to Vilnius which will commence on 22 April 2015. The new service will initially operate two times a week. Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, will be Wizz Air’s launch route… Read the full press release
5th BASE IN ROMANIA, 1 BASED AIRBUS A320, 6 ROUTES Budapest, Hungary, 2014-7-23 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today celebrated the opening of its newest Romanian base in Craiova. The airline is initially deploying one Airbus A320 aircraft to be based at Craiova airport operating 4… Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2014-7-14 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today announced further enhancements to its low fare route network from Poland, with 6 new routes from 5 different airports. Flights to Glasgow from Katowice and Poznan will start on 26 October and 28 October respectively, from 27… Read the full press release
4 NEW ROUTES AND 1 NEW AIRCRAFT TIMISOARA, Romania, 2014-7-4 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe,* today announced further expansion in Timisoara. The airline will deploy a second Airbus A320 aircraft from 1 November 2014 adding 4 new services: from 1 November twice weekly flights will operate… Read the full press release
3 NEW ROUTES AND EXTRA FLIGHTS ON POPULAR ROUTES Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014-7-4 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe,* today announced further expansion at its Cluj-Napoca base. The airline will deploy a fourth aircraft and launch 3 new services: from 20 December twice weekly flights will operate from… Read the full press release
BUDAPEST, 2014-6-25 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today celebrates the 10 year anniversary of its very first flights from Budapest, back in June 24th 2004. This is an important milestone for the airline that was established by 6 local aviation professionals in Hungary with the ambition… Read the full press release
NEW ROUTES FROM TUZLA TO DORTMUND AND EINDHOVEN Sarajevo, 2014-04-24 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, announced today that it will expand its operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina this summer by adding 2 new services from Tuzla to Dortmund and Eindhoven. The flights to Dortmund will… Read the full press release
Over 130,000 seats and over 700 flights lost in 2014 BELGRADE, 2014-04-4 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced the halving of its Belgrade capacity with the closure of low fare services to Oslo Torp and Brussels Charleroi and the reduction of flight frequencies to… Read the full press release
Kiev, Ukraine, 2014-03-24 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air Ukraine announced today that it would react to changing travel demand in Ukraine by cutting fares and adjusting its network and capacity plan. To stimulate air travel in an environment of lower market demand the airline has cut fares sharply – on average by 20%* – in… Read the full press release
Riga, Latvia, 2014-03-24 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe*, today announced that it will open its Riga base with one new Airbus A320 on 19 June 2014. Coinciding with the delivery of the aircraft the airline will start operating 4 new routes from Riga to Barcelona, Doncaster… Read the full press release
Budapest, Hungary, 2014-2-28 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced the new title sponsorship of the Budapest Half Marathon in partnership with the Budapest Sport Office (BSI). It is the first time in 18 years that the Budapest Half Marathon has changed its name. It will… Read the full press release
Skopje, Macedonia, 2014-2-28 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced the new title sponsorship of the Skopje Marathon in partnership with the city of Skopje. It is the first time that the Skopje Marathon has added a partner to its name. It will be held on… Read the full press release