Wizz Air consolidates Bucharest as its major base

Wizz Air has announced a major expansion in Bucharest. In June 2024, the low-cost airline will base two Airbus A321neo and start a new route to Germany and increase services on 21 existing routes in the Romanian capital.

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Thanks to these investments, the airline’s Bucharest base will utilize 19 aircraft and employ 800 workers, making it Wizz Air’s largest base and further enhancing its leading market position in the country with a 57% market share.

Wizz Air started operations in Romania in 2006 and has now become the country’s leading airline. By next summer, the low-cost airline will have 36 aircraft based in Romania, at its 6 bases Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iași, Sibiu and Timișoara, and a network offering 171 routes to 79 destinations in 24 countries.

In the last 17 years of presence in Romania, the airline’s presence has generated more than 60,000 jobs in the hotel and tourism sector, in addition to generating 1,600 jobs at Wizz Air.

New route from Bucharest

• Leipzig (Germany): three weekly flights as of June 4, 2024.

Increase of existing services from Bucharest by summer 2024

• Alicante: from 3 to 4 weekly flights.
• Barcelona: from 11 to 14 weekly flights.
• Malaga: from 3 to 5 weekly flights.
• Tenerife: from 3 to 4 weekly flights.
• Valencia: from 5 to 7 weekly flights.
• Athens: from 4 to 7 weekly flights.
• Paris-Beauvais: from 9 to 12 weekly flights.
• Catania: from 4 to 7 weekly flights.
• Milan-Bergamos: from 14 to 16 weekly flights.
• Rome-Fiumicino: from 12 to 14 weekly flights.
• Treviso: from 9 to 11 weekly flights.
• Turin: from 3 to 4 weekly flights.
• Dortmund: from 9 to 11 weekly flights.
• Brussels-Charleroi: from 9 to 11 weekly flights.
• Copenhagen: from 5 to 7 weekly flights.
• Dubai: from 2 to 3 weekly flights.
• Larnaca: increase from 4 to 5 weekly flights.
• Liverpool: from 2 to 3 weekly flights.
• Memmingen: increase from 3 to 4 weekly flights.
• Prague: from 2 to 3 weekly flights.
• Thessaloniki: increase from 2 to 5 weekly flights.

See also: A busy 2024 summer: Wizz Air unveils its largest flight schedule from Italy

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