Hungarian Wizz Air to restart its service but with limited number of sold seats on each plane

The Hungarian low-cost airline said that they will not postpone the takeover of the new planes they ordered before the coronavirus epidemic even though experts say that the air passenger market will not start to grow again until 2022. The budget airline is thinking about selling only a limited number of seats to get permission to restart its services as soon as possible.

According to AIRportal.hu, the company announced the reduction of their crew by 1,000 and the lowering of the salaries for those remaining, last Tuesday. Furthermore, they said that they will take out of circulation the old planes of their fleet. In a phone interview, József Váradi, Wizz Air’s CEO, added that, based on their calculations, the market will start to grow again only from 2022.

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Despite all these, Wizz Air does not plan to postpone the takeover of the new Airbus A320neo planes it ordered before the epidemic broke out. AIRportal.hu says in this regard that, contrary to the plans, the company will receive fewer planes because the Airbus was not able to produce as many as they promised in the contract.