Hungarian Wizz Air ready to conquer the Middle East
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The Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air has announced 11 new routes and is ready to conquer the Middle East. However, most of the routes have competition from other airlines.
The new routes of Wizz Air
According to simpleflying.com, the new routes are the following:
- Athens to Tel Aviv
- London Luton to Łódź
- London Luton to Bydgoszcz
- Rome Fiumicino to Gothenburg
- Rome Fiumicino to Paris Orly
- Rome Fiumicino to Barcelona
- Rome Fiumicino to Valencia
- Rome Fiumicino to Porto
- Rome Fiumicino to Seville
- Rome Fiumicino to Malaga
- Tirana to Athens
The Hungarian airline has only operated one of these routes before (London Luton to Łódź), between September 2011 and May 2013. In addition, 10 of the 11 routes involve bases, therefore, they are simple there-and-back operations. Only Athens to Tel Aviv does not fall into this category and will use Albania-based aircraft and crew.
Wizz Air’s Polish network is expanding
Adding Łódź and Bydgoszcz means that there will be 12 Polish airports involved. These are Bydgoszcz, Gdansk, Katowice, Kraków, Łódź, Lublin, Olsztyn-Mazury, Poznan, Rzeszów, Szczecin, Warsaw Chopin, and Wrocław. As Łódź is very close to Warsaw, it has not attracted Wizz Air back so far. However, the situation has changed and now, Poland’s third-largest city is joining Wizz Air.
Perhaps also take over the Amsterdam – Budapest route from Easyjet, since they seem to have abruptly stopped the service