Wizz Air to operate new route from Bucharest to Budapest in Hungary and Bucharest to Cluj-Napoca in Romania

Budapest, Hungary, 2016-Jan-19 — /Travel PR News/ — Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced a new route from Bucharest to Budapest and a domestic route from Bucharest to Cluj-Napoca, another of Wizz Air’s five bases in Romania. Wizz Air will begin the Bucharest to Cluj-Napoca route beginning 22 July with six weekly flights, operating every day except Saturday. The Bucharest to Budapest service begins 19 September with four weekly flights, Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. To mark the new service, Wizz Air is offering introductory fares on the Bucharest-Cluj-Napoca route from RON 39, and RON 99 on Bucharest-Budapest flights. In October, Wizz Air announced four new routes from Cluj-Napoca to Alicante, Berlin Schoenefeld, Billund and Doncaster Sheffield. Wizz Air now offers service on 108 routes from eight Romanian airports to 17 countries.

WIZZ AIR’S NEW ROUTE FROM BUCHAREST:

Destination

Days

Starts

Fares From*

Cluj-Napoca

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday

22 July 2016

RON 39

Budapest

Monday, Wednesday,Friday, Sunday

19 September 2016

RON 99

Wizz Air carried more than 4.5 million people through Romanian airports in 2015 compared with 3.9 million in 2014. Another highlight from 2015 was the announcement that Iasi will become the 23rd operating base for Wizz Air, and the sixth Romanian base, beginning in July. Wizz Air announced last October that it will add a 5th aircraft at the base in Cluj-Napoca, also coming in July. Gyorgy Abran, Wizz Air Chief Commercial Officer said: “We’re excited to be adding new, low-fare service in Romania where our traffic numbers grew 16 percent in 2015. We’ve been working on these routes for some time as part of our continued commitment to Romania, where more and more people continue to respond to our low fares and excellent on-board service.” Wizz Air was recently named Value Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine for its success in 2015.

communications@wizzair.com

SOURCE: Wizz Air Hungary Ltd.