Wizz Air widens EX-YU winter suspensions to 27 routes
Low cost carrier Wizz Air has expanded the number of destinations it will temporarily suspend for part or the entire duration of the 2021/2022 winter season, which runs until March 26 of next year, as reduced demand and a surge in coronavirus cases across the continent continues to impact the airline’s operations. The suspensions will affect all cities served by the budget carrier in the former Yugoslavia, with exception to Ljubljana. A total of 27 routes will be either temporarily suspended for part or the entire winter season including those operated out of Skopje, Tuzla, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Ohrid, Podgorica, Pristina, Niš and Banja Luka. Further changes remain possible.
The budget airline will pause operations from Skopje to Bremen, Hanover, Malta and Larnaca for the entire winter season, while services to Turku, Beauvais and Nuremberg will be temporarily suspended between mid-November and mid-December. Frequencies on some routes will also be reduced during this period. On the other hand, Wizz will go ahead with the addition of three new destinations from the Macedonian capital in mid-December, including Turin, Bologna and Billund, as well as the stationing of a fifth jet in the city. From Ohrid, the airline will halt operations to Malmo until mid-December, Milan until late January and London Luton until mid-February. It will go ahead with the introduction of its new service to Friedrichshafen on December 18.
Operations from Wizz Air’s newest base in the region, in Sarajevo, will also be impacted in the coming months. The airline will temporarily suspend flights from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital to Charleroi and Beauvais from mid-November until mid-December, while from Tuzla flights to Friedrichshafen, Baden Baden and Gothenburg will also be affected during this period, while services to Skavsta and Vaxjo have been suspended until the 2022 summer season. Over in Banja Luka, flights to Basel will not operate until mid-December. The airline still plans to significantly expand its offering from Bosnia and Herzegovina starting mid next month by launching flights from Sarajevo to Treviso, Malmo, Hahn, Cologne, Sandefjord and Billund, as well as from Tuzla to Milan and Nuremberg, and from Banja Luka to Hamburg.
The airline’s network from its Belgrade base will also see changes with services to Sandefjord and Hanover suspended until the start of the summer season next March, while flights to Malta will see a temporary one-month suspension until mid-December. The carrier will add new routes to Hahn, Billund, Barcelona and Vaxjo next month, as well as strengthen frequencies on several existing routes. From Niš, services to Malmo will be suspended until the middle of next month.
Despite not being Wizz Air bases, flights to Pristina and Podgorica will also be disrupted. The airline is temporarily suspending operations from Rome and Milan to Pristina from mid-November for one month, while operations from Vienna to the Montenegrin capital will not operate until mid-December. Furthermore, flights from Podgorica to Milan and Budapest have been suspended until next summer.
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