Wizz Air increases presence in Romania

Wizz Air (W6) will base a sixth Airbus A320 at Bucharest Baneasa fromJune 2012. This aircraft will enable the airline to support a new route to Verona (VRN) and increase frequencies on existing routes to Milan Bergamo, Venice Treviso, Madrid, Dortmund, Bari, Cuneo Turin, Catania, Forli Bologna and Pisa. The new route to VRN will initially operate 3X weekly from June 23 and increase the number of destinations the LCC serves from its BBU base to 20.

“Wizz Air is Romania’s single largest airline by now with well over 2.5 million passengers to be carried in 2011. Next year we will have a fleet of 10 most modern Airbus A320 aircraft operating from our four bases: Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and Tirgu Mures, an investment of around €0.5 billion ($686 million),” CEO Jozsef Varadi said. “We created about 3,000 jobs in the country and have become an essential part of Romania’s transport infrastructure.”

W6 operates 35 A320s from 15 bases in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Serbia and Lithuania.