Exciting: Hungarian Wizz Air will conquer far-away, exotic countries from 2025

József Váradi has been at the helm of the Hungarian low-cost airline since its start in 2004. Now he talked about some ambitious future plans to an Italian magazine. He mentioned the new routes becoming available with the company’s newly-acquired planes and how the problems with Pratt & Whitney’s GTF engines will impact expansion plans.

Far-away and exotic countries can become available with Wizz Air thanks to new planes

According to italiavola.com, Mr Váradi met the press in Milan to talk about his future plans with the successful Hungarian budget airline, Wizz Air. He told TTG Italia that they already carried more than 400 million passengers and shared some additional numbers they can be proud of. He added they flew 207 planes from 193 airports, offering 800 routes for their passengers on three continents.

We wrote several times that the problems with Pratt & Whitney’s GTF engines may result in delays and cancellations in the airline’s summer schedule. Mr Váradi said that the engine problem would be resolved by end-2025. Furthermore, despite 20% of their fleet being grounded, they are flying much more than in 2019.

Wizz Air CEO József Váradi. Photo: FB/Budflyer

He added they would receive the first Airbus A321XLR type plane next February. The range of that plane is much higher than any other Wizz Air used before. It will enter into service in March 2025. That fleet will be extended to 47 by 2028 and doubled between 2028 and 2033. Such intercontinental planes will allow Wizz Air to conquer India, Central Asia and Africa, where Wizz plans to fly those routes in the future.

Astonishing Wizz Air numbers for this year

Váradi said they would make 69.5 million seats available in 2024 despite the problems with grounded planes. This is possible because they extended the leasing period of multiple aircraft for the season.

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The Wizz CEO added that the ticket price growth was only single-digit this year. He said they would have good numbers concerning the business year with a profit between EUR 350 and 370 million, which is due to the many planes grounded.

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