22/04/2010
Wizz Air continues to expand in Budapest - over 20% growth in 2010
Wizz Air, the largest low fare - low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced at a press conference in Budapest today that it would launch new routes and increase frequencies of a number of existing services by adding a fourth Airbus A320 aircraft to its Budapest base, starting on 24 July 2010.
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London Luton will be served three times a day versus the current double daily operation.
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Services to Brussels Charleroi and Eindhoven will be increased to 11 times a week from daily, each.
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Frequencies to Malmo-Copenhagen, Turku and Bourgas will also be increased.
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Wizz Air will re-start the Budapest - Frankfurt Hahn route three times a week and launch Budapest-Bari twice a week initially.
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Destination
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Current frequency
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New frequency
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Date of increase
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Frankfurt Hahn
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3 flights/week
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24 July
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Bari
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2 flights/week
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26 July
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London Luton
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twice daily
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triple daily
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24 July
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Brussels Charleroi
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daily
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11 flights/week
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25 July
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Eindhoven
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daily
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11 flights/week
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25 July
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Malmö
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4 flights/week
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5 flights/week
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29 July
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Turku
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2 flights/week
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3 flights/week
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1 July
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Bourgas
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2 flights/week
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3 flights/week
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17 June
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With the new capacity Wizz Air offers a network of 22 routes from and to Budapest.
"Recently we have been experiencing a strong shift of customer preference towards Wizz Air in Hungary resulting from our own expansion in a declining market as well as the weaknesses of competing airlines. Building on this momentum we aim at achieving over 20% passenger traffic growth in Budapest in 2010." - said József Váradi, Chief Executive Officer of Wizz Air.