Wizz Air to pull out of Slovenia, suspend eight Bosnia routes
Low cost carrier Wizz Air will temporarily suspend its sole service to Slovenia over the coming winter, as well as eight routes from its base in Tuzla. With this latest development, Wizz Air will have temporarily suspended 36 routes from markets in the former Yugoslavia.
The final service this year between Charleroi in Belgium and Ljubljana is scheduled for October 24, with two weekly flights to be reinstated on March 30, 2021. Wizz had made plans to downgrade its year-round operations on the route to a seasonal summer service last year but reconsidered following the collapse of Adria Airways in September 2019. Ticket sales for flights past this October were suspended this week. Wizz Air began serving the Slovenian market in October of 2012 and has continuously maintained flights from both Charleroi and London until last October, when operations from Luton Airport were discontinued, while services from the Belgian city were briefly suspended in October and November. During its last full year of service from Charleroi to Ljubljana in 2018, Wizz Air carried 33.642 passengers on the route.
Wizz Air will be adding a further four routes to the other four which have already been suspended from its Tuzla base. The airline will discontinue services to Berlin, Cologne, Baden Baden and Vaxjo over the winter season, with plans to restore them in late March 2021. Services to Salzburg, Vienna, Billund and Friedrichshafen, which have already been suspended but were to be reinstated in late October, will not return to the network until the 2021 summer season next March. As a result, Wizz Air will run flights from Tuzla to Basel, Dortmund, Hahn, Memmingen, Eindhoven, Gothenburg, Malmo and Skavsta over the winter.
Wizz Air warned last week that its industry-leading recovery could stall as Covid-19 warnings and restrictions hamper travel across Europe. The low cost airline has been one of the fastest to recover from the ongoing coronavirus crisis, currently flying at 80% of last year’s capacity. However, ticket data shows Europe’s travel recovery began to stall in August after a stronger performance in July, and Wizz said 80% capacity was as high as it could go under current circumstances, and that capacity might fall again. “From here on, either you’re going to be able to hold the line or somewhat come down on capacity”, CEO Jozsef Varadi said.
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