Official: This European city is now the largest base of Wizz Air
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Romania is also ahead of Hungary in the air, with Bucharest replacing Budapest as Wizz Air’s largest base last year.
Bucharest is Wizz Air’s largest base in 2023
Bucharest replaced Budapest as Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air’s largest base last year, Ziarul Financiar reports. According to the Hungarian News Agency (MTI), Wizz Air’s Bucharest base has 17 aircraft, with an average of 2,400 flights a month to and from Bucharest. Meanwhile, in the case of Budapest, that number is around 2,000.
Two more aircraft will be added to the Bucharest base in the near future. “This investment will bring the total number of planes at the Bucharest base to 19, employing 800 people. This is the largest base for Wizz Air, which will strengthen its leading position in Romania with a market share of 57%,” the airline said.
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Six Wizz bases in Romania
Wizz Air operates six bases in Romania: in addition to Bucharest, in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), Sibiu (Nagyszeben), Timișoara (Temesvár), Iași (Jászvásár) and Craiova. From these airports, they operate more than 170 flights, both domestic and international. International flights fly to 24 destinations. Last year, nearly 13 million people flew on Romanian Wizz Air flights, compared to only 8.5 million a year earlier.