Abstract
- The 15 additions embrace airports in Iraq and Uzbekistan.
- Solely Glasgow and Luxembourg have beforehand been served.
- Radom in Poland is the newest airport to hitch its community, with one route (Larnaca) to start in December.
An airline might develop in varied methods, together with ‘connecting the dots’ by including new routes between present airports, rising frequencies, and, if ready, by rising plane gauge. Whereas extra pricey, complicated, and dangerous, it could additionally add different airports. These may very well be new to its community or – if there’s a whole lot and alternative – merely returning.
Wizz Air’s added airports: 2023
Wizz Air has added 15 airports to its ever-expansive community this yr. Not all have launched but, whereas Glasgow and Luxembourg have been beforehand served. The months seek advice from the service’s first route from every airport.
- January: Ankara (Türkiye), Marsa Alam (Egypt), Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
- February: Medina (Saudi Arabia)
- March: Bilbao (Spain), Istanbul Airport (Türkiye)
- June: Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Cairo Sphinx (Egypt), Luxembourg (guess; see picture)
- July: Trieste (Italy)
- August: Brașov (Romania)
- September: Comiso (Italy)
- October: Erbil (Iraq)
- November: Glasgow (UK)
- December: Radom (Poland)
Photograph: Luxembourg Airport
Discover that each month from June has no less than one launch, the latest being Erbil, the ULCC’s first foray in Iraq. It launched Abu Dhabi-Erbil on October sixth, changing into the primary service to fly from the UAE capital since 2015. Iraq is Wizz Air’s eighth nation within the Center East.
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Glasgow returns
The Scottish metropolis isn’t any stranger to seeing Wizz Air’s plane. It first launched flights to the airport in March 2013, having shifted from Prestwick. It launched routes to Glasgow from Warsaw and Gdańsk, with Katowice and Poznan following the subsequent yr and Bucharest, Budapest, Lublin, and Vilnius in 2015. The picture under is from 2015.
Photograph: Glasgow Airport
Solely Budapest remained in its Glasgow community by the point the pandemic struck. It switched to Edinburgh in December 2019 and, in that point, served Bucharest, Budapest, Gdańsk, and Warsaw. Ryanair serves all, though the 2 ULCCs fly from totally different Warsaw airports.
Presumably motivated by an excellent deal and the prospect of decrease competitors, Wizz Air will finish flights to Edinburgh and return to Glasgow. It’ll have simply two routes: Bucharest (final served in 2017; resumes on November seventeenth) and Budapest (again on November 14th). Looking for Edinburgh flights after then refers you to Glasgow.
Picture: Wizz Air
Seats on the market up 25% in a yr
If Wizz Air’s whole community is taken into account, it has greater than 66 million seats on the market this yr, based mostly on the info equipped by the service to Cirium. They’ve risen by 1 / 4 in a yr and by an astonishing 55% versus 2019. It has added 50+ million seats up to now 10 years. After all, this brings monumental challenges.
You would possibly suppose it’s bedding in progress this winter, however not so. Winter seats this coming season (October twenty ninth, 2023, to March twenty ninth, 2024) are up by 36% over final yr and 70% versus 2020.
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Sources of data: Cirium, Wizz Air’s web site
