Back to Ukraine: Wizz Air CEO’s baffling plans about Eastern expansion

The CEO of the Hungarian low-cost airline, Wizz Air, talked about the company’s plans at a lunch of the English Aviation Club.

Regarding Wizz Air’s return to Ukraine, he said that the Hungarian company would be the first to reenter the marker when the war was over. We wrote before that when the Russian invasion started, Wizz Air had four planes in Ukraine, three in Kyiv, and one in Lviv. Last September, the aircraft in West Ukraine could escape from the war-torn country and flew to Katowice in Poland. However, three Airbuses are still in Kyiv, and it does not seem they will be able to get out soon. Anyway, the company plans to return to the Ukrainian market as soon as the fight is over, Budflyer wrote.

Mr Váradi told his audience in the English Aviation Club that they would expand their fleet with brand new Airbus A321XLR planes from 2024 year-end. But they will not commute from Hungary. Their base will be in the United Kingdom and the Middle East.