Wizz Air Romania to open Craiova base in 2014

Newsroom 13/11/2013 | 14:20

Low cost airline Wizz Air will open its fifth operating base in Romania in July 2014, in Craiova, the company has announced. One A320 airplane will be deployed in Craiova the same month and will operate flights on 6 routes – Bologna, Roma Ciampino, Dortmund, Barcelona, London Luton and Milano Bergamo. This should generate 260,000 passengers in the first 12 months.

At present Wizz Air has 4 operating bases in Romania and runs a fleet of 12 aircrafts from 6 local airports. This year the airline plans to reach 3.3 million passengers in Romania, up by 600,000 y-o-y. Out of this 1.8 million passengers should be reported in Bucharest alone. Wizz Air ’s total investment in Romania amounts to USD 1 billion, according to company data.

Wizz Air is the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe according to its data. It has 18 bases and runs a fleet of 45 A320 airplanes on 290 routes.

Simona Bazavan

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