Wizz Air closes and suspends flights to popular holiday destinations

The Hungarian budget airline, Wizz Air, modified its summer timetable considerably last week cancelling or suspending several flights to Mediterranean tourist destinations. This week, they announced new cancellations and suspensions concerning their Egypt, Saudi-Arabia, and Türkiye routes.

According to okosutas.hu, Wizz Air not only reduces flight frequency to some Mediterranean destinations, but it also cancels and suspends popular routes. We wrote about the previously announced modifications in THIS article.

However, it seems additional routes will be suspended.

No flights to Antalya, Sharm El Sheikh, and Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Wizz Air had high hopes concerning their Saudi-Arabia flights. However, they decided to close their Dammam flight. The last plane departed from Budapest on 19 January, but they allowed passengers to book tickets even for April. Now, they removed those flights from the timetable, so okosutas.hu believes Wizz Air ceased to carry passengers on that route.

Tickets were not expensive to Dammam, you could regularly book flights for only EUR 10. That is cheap concerning the ticket price increases passengers experienced in the sector. We wrote about that trend HERE.

However, the visa to Saudi Arabia is quite expensive, so that might be an obstacle in making Dammam a popular holiday destination even though the weather is always hot and the city is on the seashore.

Wizz Air decided to suspend its flight to Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt for the summer. Hurghada remains in the Hungarian low-cost airline’s timetable. You cannot book a ticket to the Sinai Peninsula tourist paradise between mid-June and the end of September. Afterwards, the route will return.