Wizz Air expands Serbia operations
Low cost carrier Wizz Air will expand its operations in Serbia this coming summer season by increasing frequencies and capacity on existing flights, while launching one new route and resuming a previously suspended service. From its base in Belgrade, the airline will grow frequencies on flights to Malta and London Luton, both of which will now be maintained four times per week. Furthermore, the airline has upped capacity to the British capital on select days from the 180-seat Airbus A320 aircraft to the 220-seat A321 throughout April. Wizz will also introduce a new seasonal two weekly service from Belgrade to Lyon. Both airports are run by operator VINCI. "With the new route, we will now serve fourteen destinations from Belgrade to seven countries. As a result, Wizz Air will support close to 700 jobs in Serbia this year alone", the company said.
Wizz Air will resume flights between Malmo and Niš this April after discontinuing the service on January 7. Flights between the two cities will restart on April 17 and will run twice per week, each Wednesday and Sunday. The route was shelved following the closure of the budget carrier's base in Poznan, from where the operating aircraft was deployed for the Malmo - Niš service. The jet will now be sourced from the airline's Katowice base. In total, Wizz Air will have 921.000 seats on sale from Serbia this year. The airline handled close to 800.000 travellers on flights to and from Belgrade and Niš in 2018, representing an increase of 6% on the previous year.
Wizz Air's CEO, Joszef Varadi, recently said, "We are totally committed to the [Serbian] market and we hope to see some improvements of commercial terms in the marketplace. That would certainly attract us with more capacity. We will see what VINCI will bring into the party". The airport operator previously noted it would keep Belgrade's fees unchanged for the first three years of its 25-year concession. However, VINCI can make changes to the airport's incentive plan. Wizz Air's last major expansion in the Serbian market came in 2017 when it based its second aircraft in Belgrade and introduced a number of new routes.
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