Bulgaria became a member of the EU on 1 January 2007. The same day, neighbour Romania also became a member. Curiously, traffic had already doubled at the country’s main airport in Sofia between 2001 and 2006. In 2007 demand grew by more than 20% while the following year passenger numbers again increased by almost 20%. […]
March 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
According to our analysis of Cirium schedule data, the European airports* that saw the biggest increase in scheduled departures between all of 2019 and all of 2022 were Bergen in Norway (4,200 additional departures representing growth of 12%), Bari in Italy (3,013, growth of 16%) and Funchal in Portugal (2,527, growth of 23%). While Bergen’s […]
January 19, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air has opened its eighth base in Romania, the airline’s number one European country. It’s at Suceava, situated in the far north of the country around 60 kilometres from the Ukraine border. With two stationed A320ceos, it joins other bases at Bacau, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iasi, Sibiu and Timisoara. Of course, Suceava is not […]
December 21, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
When Blue Air ceased operations in early September it presented an opportunity for Wizz Air to further expand its presence in Romania, particularly in Bucharest. Analysis of Cirium schedule data for December shows that the Romanian capital is now Wizz Air’s second biggest base, behind only London LTN. Since December 2019, Wizz Air flights have […]
November 30, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
On Friday 8 April, Wizz Air finally opened its new base at Cardiff Airport in Wales. Originally set to open last summer, the launch was delayed due to the ongoing pandemic. Flights to Lanzarote and Tenerife TFS in the Canary Islands started on 8 April, followed by Alicante, Faro and Palma de Mallorca on Saturday […]
April 11, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Wizz Air this week opened its latest base in Italy at Venice Marco Polo Airport. The carrier has been operating domestic routes to Bari, Catania, Naples and Palermo for several months, operated by aircraft based at other Italian airports. Now the carrier has started the first of some 17 new routes it plans to launch […]
March 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Well that was quick. Having announced on 22 December that it acquired enough slots from Norwegian to justify basing four additional A321neos at Gatwick next summer, the following day Wizz Air announced the 14 new routes that it would be adding from the start of the summer season. Details of the new routes, launch dates, […]
December 24, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air has launched service between Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Hamburg in northern Germany. The new 2-weekly service, operating on Thursdays and Sundays, began on 16 December. The 1,250-kilometre route is not served by any other airline and the two airports have not been connected before, at least not since the start of […]
December 23, 2021 | Latest Route News +