Hungarian Wizz Air landed in India for the first time
A Wizz Air plane landed at the international airport of Trivandrum, India. This was the first time the Hungarian budget airline’s plane touched the ground of the subcontinent.
Wizz Air does not go to America
We wrote earlier that Wizz Air plans to acquire 47 A321XLR planes by 2030. These are long-range aircraft. But based on the company’s CEO, József Váradi, they do not plan to launch Transatlantic flights with the help of those planes.
That might be because of the bad US-Hungary relationship, thanks to the Hungarian government’s stance on the war in Ukraine. The Orbán cabinet would not like to provide Ukraine weapons and focuses on the importance of ceasefire and peace talks in their 2024 election campaigns.
Orbán regularly says that without their victory (and the victory of the “pro-peace forces”) in the elections, NATO and the EU would join the war against Russia in Ukraine and suggests that Hungarians would be sacrificed for Ukraine in the Eastern front. The Biden administration and many European leaders are mad to hear or read those statements.
First plane landed in India
That is probably why Wizz Air plans to expand in the East. CEO Váradi said they aimed to open new routes to Central Asia and India, and their first flight landed in the subcontinent, even though it was not intentional.
According to Budflyer, a Hungarian travel news Facebook page, because of the intense weather, Wizz Air flight 5W7105 was diverted to Trivandrum, India. Meanwhile, China Eastern Airlines flight MU235 was diverted to Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Maldivian flights Q2245 and Q2165 were diverted to Kadhdhoo Airport, while Q2707 from Cochin was diverted to Gan.
This means that a Wizz Air flight already touched Indian ground. Here is a photo of the Wizz aircraft:
And a video of the diversion:
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