Wizz Air partially suspends planned new EX-YU routes
Low cost carrier Wizz Air will be suspending the majority of its new routes from the former Yugoslavia, set to launch in mid-December, after just several flights, with plans to restore operations at the start of the 2022 summer season in late March. On the other hand, some routes have been pushed back and will not be starting as planned. Services that will commence in mid-December but will only operate until mid-January, after which they will be suspended until summer 2022, include those from Sarajevo to Billund (operational from December 17 until January 7), Cologne (December 16 - January 8), Hahn (December 16 - January 8), Sandefjord (December 19 - January 9) and Malmo (December 16 - January 8), from Belgrade to Billund (December 17 - January 12), Barcelona (December 19 - January 12) and Vaxjo (December 17 - January 10), from Skopje to Billund (December 19 - January 9) and Bologna (December 19 - January 9), from Tuzla to Nuremberg (December 17 - January 7), as well as from Ohrid to Friedrichshafen (operational from December 18 until January 8). All are then set to be restored in late March or early April.
Several of the abovementioned routes will also be reduced from the initially planned three weekly rotations to two or from two to one per week. In addition, flight launches which have been postponed include those from Sarajevo to Treviso, which will now begin on March 29 instead of December 14, as well as those previously reported from Skopje to Turin and from Tuzla to Milan, which will commence during March of next year. New route launches that have been unaffected include those from London Luton to Ljubljana, set to begin on December 13, as well as from Belgrade to Hahn, launching on December 16.
Wizz Air has delayed, terminated or cut planned new routes from the region on several occasions since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last March but has also launched more than twenty new destinations, primarily from its new base in Sarajevo, as well as from Belgrade. The airline’s shares on the London Stock Exchange were hit yesterday with the discovery of the new Omicron strain of the coronavirus, with their value tumbling 15%. This was coupled with growing restrictions and lockdowns across much of Europe caused by a new wave of the virus. However, in a more positive development for both Wizz Air and other operators, the EU Commission has proposed for European Union member states to open their borders for non-EU travellers who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 with one of the vaccines approved by the World Health Organisation starting January 10, 2022. These include vaccines manufactured in China, with which a number of people from Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina have been vaccinated with.
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