Wizz Air announces further expansion in Romania

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 aircraft in Bucharest, bringing its fleet in Romania to 17 Airbus A320, representing 29% capacity growth in 2015 year-on-year. The 9th  Bucharest based aircraft will be delivered at the end of July 2015. Wizz Air also announced operations from Iasi airport, which will take the number of airports served by WIZZ inRomania to 8. The new services from Iasi to Treviso will begin on 20 December 2014, Iasi –Milan Bergamo on 31st of March and a Iasi-London Luton service will start on 14 June 2015. From Bucharest Wizz Air launched new routes to Pescara and Stockholm Skavsta,commencing on 27th of July, as well as a summer route to Heraklion commencing on 20 June.

With these new services Wizz Air is now offering a combined total of 97 routes to 15 countries from its 8 Romanian airports. The airline has also increased frequencies on 22 of the most popular routes across its Romanian network.

Wizz Air’s major expansion in the capital city and the Romanian regions will further stimulate the job market in the aviation and tourism sectors with more visitors now able to travel to Romania on Wizz Air’s low fare services. Tickets on Wizz Air’s newest routes, as well as the entire summer 2015 schedule from Romania, are already on sale and can be booked at wizzair.com starting from RON 99**.

Speaking at a press conference in Bucharest today, John Stephenson, Executive Vice President of Wizz Air, said: “Today is another major step forward for Wizz Air in Romania. In just two months we have announced 3 new based aircraft, an additional airport, 20 new routes and 1.35 million additional seats in 2015. We are delivering more of our low fares and services to best meet the needs of the Romanian traveling public. WIZZ’s ever expandingnetwork and increasing frequencies on existing routes will certainly attract more passengers traveling on leisure or business. Our growth will support over 1,000 new jobs across Romania and boost tourism across the country.”

NEWEST ROMANIAN ROUTES:

New route

Days

Starting date

Fares from**

Iasi to Treviso

Tue, Sat

20 December

RON 129

Iasi to Milan Bergamo

Tue, Thu, Sat

31 March

RON 129

Iasi to London Luton

Wed, Sun

14 June 2015

RON 179

Bucharest to Pescara

Mon, Fri

27 July 2015

RON 99

Bucharest to
Stockholm Skavsta

Mon; Fri

27 July 2015

RON 129

Bucharest to Heraklion

Sat

20 June 2015

RON 229

 

FREQUENCY INCREASES ON SOME POPULAR ROUTES:

Destination

Weekly flights

Cluj-Napoca to London Luton

From 9 to 11

Cluj-Napoca to Milan Bergamo

From 5 to 7

Cluj-Napoca to Paris Beauvais

From 5 to 7

Cluj-Napoca to Barcelona

From 4 to 5

Cluj-Napoca to Dortmund

From 4 to 5

Cluj-Napoca to Rome Ciampino

From 3 to 4

Timisoara to Rome Ciampino

From 3 to 4

Timisoara to Treviso

From 2 to 3

Timisoara to Bologna

From 2 to 3

Timisoara to Milan Bergamo

From 4 to 5

Craiova to Rome Ciampino

From 2 to 3

Destination

Weekly flights

Bucharest to Pisa

From 3 to 4

Bucharest to Turin

From 2 to 3

Bucharest to Barcelona

From 5 to 7

Bucharest to Treviso

From 7 to 11

Bucharest to Milan Bergamo

From 7 to 11

Bucharest to Bologna

From 4 to 5

Bucharest to Brussels Charleroi

From 7 to 11

Bucharest to Perugia

From 2 to 3

Bucharest to Madrid

From 7 to 10

Bucharest to Malaga

From 2 to 3

Bucharest to Verona

From 2 to 3

 

*Source: Innovata, on the basis of scheduled departing seat capacity for the year ended 31 March 2014 (“FY 2014”) Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is a region comprised of Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

**One way price including taxes, non-optional charges and 1 small cabin bag.