Gatwick to Budapest with Wizz Air

WIZZ Air has announced the launch of a new route from London Gatwick to Budapest.

This new Gatwick connection to Hungary’s capital will see Wizz Air increase its presence at London’s second busiest airport, where it already operates flights three times daily to the Romanian capital of Bucharest.

Beginning on March 31st, the new flights will run daily, bringing a low-fare travel option for passengers travelling from the south London hub.

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Hungary for Italy

BUDAPEST Airport’s blistering route network growth looks set to continue into 2019 as the Hungarian gateway announces a further two new routes with Ryanair. Leading the way the ultra-low-cost carrier will launch new links to Bari and Cagliari, both with a twice-weekly service set to commence in April 2019.

While the Ryanair will join Wizz Air in offering direct services to Bari, the port city on the Adriatic Sea, the airline’s link to Cagliari will become Budapest’s first connection to the capital city of the Italian island, #Sardinia. Ryanair’s continued growth at Budapest will see the airline serve eight Italian destinations as of next year as the new services join established links to Naples, Milan Bergamo, Palermo, Pisa, Rome Ciampino and Treviso.

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Up in the air …

WIZZ AIR has launched direct flights from Aberdeen to Warsaw. The service will operate the year-round twice weekly service on Monday and Fridays. 

Wizz Air arrived at Aberdeen Airport last year when it launched a twice-weekly service to Gdansk, Poland, in June.

EASYJET has recorded the busiest ski season in its history this year. With a 40 percent share of the UK ski market, easyJet carried 1.3 million passengers to destinations across Europe, 90,000 more than last year. New routes, good ski conditions, and a strong consumer demand have fuelled the growth in customer numbers, the airline said. 

easyJet operates ski flights to Lyon, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Grenoble, Friedrichshafen, Turin, and its largest gateway, Geneva.

ICELANDAIR will take its Glasgow to Reykjavik service daily on September 7. Currently it runs six flights a week between the cities.

Icelandair now offer services to 16 North American gateways with connections from six UK airports: London Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, and Aberdeen.

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Wizz Air launches Gatwick-Bucharest flights

WIZZ AIR will begin direct service from London’s Gatwick Airport to #Bucharest, Romania, from June 18. It will be the only direct connection between the two airports, offering the easiest access to the Romanian capital from Gatwick. 

With a total of four Wizz Air direct flights a day between London and Bucharest, the new Gatwick route adds a second option for travel from London, along with Wizz Air’s direct three-times-a-day flights between Bucharest and London Luton.

Gatwick, a new airport for Wizz Air’s low-fares services, will be the company’s ninth airport in the UK, the others being Luton, Doncaster-Sheffield, Bristol, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Belfast, Liverpool, and Birmingham.

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Wizz Air launches new route to Poland

CUT-PRICE carrier Wizz Air is to start flights from Luton to Olsztyn-Mazury in north-east Poland. 

Flights to the 'Lake District of Poland' will start on June 18. They will operate three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

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Wizz Air reaches 100 million passengers milestone

WIZZ AIR has carried its 100 millionth passenger, 11 years after operating its first flight between Poland and Britain.

The 100 millionth passenger travelled on the Luton to Warsaw route, a milestone marked by the airline giving away free flights to all on board.

Chief executive József Váradi said: ‘We operated our first flight in 2004 between #Poland and the UK, and today, 11 years later, we celebrate a total of 100 million passengers carried from over 110 airports across 38 countries. We are celebrating at all our six Polish airport bases because 40% of our phenomenal growth was made with our Polish customers and their visitors.

‘We remain committed to grow passenger traffic in all the Polish regions we fly to, and to continuously offer our customers new opportunities to travel, whether on business, leisure, or to unite with their families.

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Wizz Air announces new route to Cluj

HUNGARIAN low fares carrier #WizzAir has announced a new route from Doncaster Sheffield Airport to Cluj in #Romania, offering twice-weekly flights starting from July next year. 

The Cluj route will be the 11th Wizz service connecting Yorkshire with Central and Eastern European destinations.

Lead in fares on the Cluj service start at £21.99 including taxes.

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Up in the air …

NORWEGIAN AIR has announced plans to launch direct, low-cost flights from Boston and New York to Cork, Ireland – the only transatlantic flights to operate to Cork Airport – as well as onward services from Cork to Barcelona.

LUFTHANSA’s latest route is from Frankfurt to Tampa, Florida. The airline now flies to 18 US cities.

BOURNEMOUTH AIRPORT has said that it has retained its Park Mark status, following a re-assessment by the police. ‘This means that everyone parking their car at the airport can be confident that it will always be parked in a safe environment and that we have strict measures in place for deterring criminal activity,’ says Paul Knight, the airport’s managing director.

IBERIA EXPRESS has confirmed it will launch direct flights from Madrid to Birmingham. The low-cost carrier will operate return flights on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

RYANAIR is to start twice-weekly flights from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Brussels.

DELTA AIR LINES’ non-stop double daily flights between Athens and New York-JFK are now on sale for travel in summer 2016. Flights will begin five times weekly from March, increasing to a daily service from May.

WIZZ AIR is to start twice-weekly flights from Birmingham to Bucharest, Romania, with fares from £28.49 one way, including all taxes and non-optional charges.

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Flybe launches Liverpool -Amsterdam route … FLYBE has started flights between Liverpool and Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Fares start from £34.99 one way including taxes and charges.

Wizz Air starts Glasgow-Bucharest service … Flights between Glasgow and Bucharest are to be introduced by Wizz Air in May next year. It is also increasing the frequency of flights from Luton to Bucharest.

EasyJet increases capacity and routes for spring 2016 … easyJet has hiked capacity next spring with more than 22.5 million seats going on sale. The budget carrier is to run 136,000 additional flights across its network between March 21 and June 26. Sample flights include Bristol to Barcelona from £22.24 one-way, Belfast-Amsterdam from £25.49, Inverness-Luton from £12.49, Southend-Malaga from £28.24, Gatwick-Copenhagen from £30.24, and Luton- Malaga from £30.24.

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Wizz Air heads for Kosice

#WIZZAIR is to start twice-weekly flights from Bristol Airport to Kosice, #Slovakia, in October.

This follows the introduction of Sofia, Bulgaria, to Wizz Air’s schedule from the West Country airport. The addition of the Kosice flight brings the total number of Wizz Air destinations to three from Bristol – Katowice (Poland), Sofia, and Kosice.

Peter Downes, head of Aviation Development at Bristol Airport, said: ‘Wizz Air is opening up new, previously unserved markets for passengers in the South West and Wales. As a previous European Capital of Culture, and serving as a gateway to six UNESCO world heritage sites, Kosice is one of the hidden gems of Eastern Europe.’

Kosice is the second largest city in Slovakia after the capital, Bratislava.

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WIZZ AIR is to introduce a twice weekly service between Glasgow and the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. 

It will be the first time Vilnius has been served as a destination from Glasgow, and will operate a year round, twice weekly service starting in September.


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Record April for Bristol airport

A RECORD of more than 500,000 passengers used Bristol airport in April, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%. The performance ensured a 13th consecutive month of growth at the south-west airport.

BMI Regional saw traffic grow following the launch of new services to Paris and Düsseldorf. Brussels Airlines, easyJet, Ryanair, and Thomas Cook Airlines also recorded strong growth from Bristol.

Further growth is forecast for May and June, with charter airlines commencing their summer programmes.

New destinations include Bilbao, the lsle of Man, Porto, Gibraltar and Catania in Sicily by easyJet and Cape Verde, Paphos and Hurghada with Thomson Airways. Wizz Air makes its Bristol debut in June with twice-weekly flights to Katowice in Poland.

An eastern terminal extension is due to open in July to help cater for the increased services.

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Wizz Air to open new UK routes to Lublin

DONCASTER-SHEFFIELD and Glasgow airports will get flights to Lublin as Wizz Air establishes a base at the regional airport in eastern Poland.

Up to three flights a week on the new routes will be offered from September 14, while frequency on an existing service from Luton will be increased from five to seven flights a week.

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Wizz Air introduces allocated seating

WIZZ AIR is to introduce allocated seating across all of its routes from May 2015. It will allocate neighbouring seats to passengers travelling together on the same booking where possible.

Passengers will be able to change their free seat allocation and choose a different seat for a fee, starting from €1 (£0.73) at any time up until three hours prior to departure. Preferred seats, such as front row seats for quick disembarking or seats with extra legroom, can be reserved for a higher fee upon availability on a first come first served basis.

Passengers with WIZZ Premium and WIZZ Privilege Pass memberships will be able to select any seat for free and also continue to enjoy Priority Boarding to avoid queues.

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Wizz Air introduces allocated seating

WIZZ AIR is to introduce allocated seating on selected routes from May 4 and across all of its routes from May 19. It will allocate neighbouring seats to passengers travelling together on the same booking where possible.

Passengers will be able to change their free seat allocation and choose a different seat for a fee, starting from €1 (£0.73) at any time up until three hours prior to departure. 

Preferred seats, such as front row seats for quick disembarking or seats with extra legroom, can be reserved for a higher fee upon availability on a first come first served basis.

Passengers with WIZZ Premium and WIZZ Privilege Pass memberships will be able to select any seat for free and also continue to enjoy Priority Boarding to avoid queues.

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Up in the air …

DELTA AIR LINES and VIRGIN ATLANTIC Airways have expanded their transatlantic partnership, with the introduction of schedules that offer six new daily services. The airlines begin their summer schedule, providing up to 39 return transatlantic flights a day between the UK and 15 destinations across North America. The joint schedule includes ten daily flights on the world’s largest business travel market, between London Heathrow and New York, now with eight daily departures to New York-JFK and two departures to Newark.

FLYBE’s 2015 summer schedule from its newly re-opened base at Aberdeen, offers up to 75 flights a week on five key routes. Flybe’s routes from Aberdeen include a daily service to Belfast, the first summer of operation for Flybe’s three times a day service to London City, and multi-frequency flights to Birmingham and Manchester.

EASYJET has opened a base at Francisco de Sa Carneiro Airport Porto in northern Portugal. Three UK routes – from Manchester, Bristol, and London Luton airports – to the new Porto base are to be launched in April and May.

BMI REGIONAL has opened a base at Munich Airport to support three new flight routes to the city from Rotterdam, Liege, and Bern.

A new route to Budapest from Glasgow is being started by WIZZ AIR this summer. The airline carrier is to operate flights from June with fares at £28.49 one-way.

AIR SEYCHELLES is to run three non-stop Paris flights each week from July, replacing the current twice-weekly service to the French capital via Abu Dhabi.

LONDON mayor Boris Johnson has rejected a £200 million expansion plan for LONDON CITY AIRPORT. He says it would lead to unacceptable noise levels.

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Consumer rights violation lands three airlines in trouble

AT least three airlines are facing legal action over passenger handling complaints after being hit by flight disruptions. 

The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said Ireland’s Aer Lingus, Britain’s Jet2 and Hungary’s Wizz Air have failed to change their consumer policies in line with its requests.

Andrew Haines, chief executive of the CAA, said passengers had ‘every right to be disappointed’ by the airlines.

The move follows a six-month review of passenger disruption policies. It examined how airlines handle compensation for flight delays and offer information to passengers about their rights. The CAA said it has launched enforcement action against the three airlines and will seek a court order unless they comply.

The allegations are:

- Jet2 and Wizz Air have failed to satisfy the regulator that they are consistently paying compensation for disruption caused by technical faults, despite a Court of Appeal ruling clarifying that airlines must do so.

- Aer Lingus and Jet2 have failed to give satisfactory evidence that they pro-actively provide passengers with information about their rights in line with the requirements set out in European regulation.

- Jet2 and Wizz Air are imposing two-year time limits for passengers to take compensation claims to the court, despite a Court of Appeal ruling that passengers should have up to six years to take a claim to court.


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Wizz Air takes off from Bristol

A NEW airline will be flying from Bristol Airport next year following Wizz Air’s announcement that it will operate a twice-weekly service to Katowice, Poland, from June. Flights will operate every Monday and Friday.

Katowice is the main city of the Upper Silesian region of Poland and is a centre for science and industry, as well as having an eclectic mix of architectural styles with Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings alongside Communist-era Modernist structures.

Tickets are now on sale from £25.99 one way (including taxes, non-optional charges and one small cabin bag) and can be booked at wizzair.com.

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