Birmingham: Wizz Air Flights, New Routes & Schedule Updates

[rollo]

Can't see Wizz adding much given theay have severe problems with their Pratt & Witney powered Airbses with 47 out of service in June.
They have stated growth will be flat at best for 2years.

 

[thunderchild]

Wizz operated Riga from Dec 20 until Sept 21 when the base closed. Think it was x2 weekly.

 

[Karl C]

Wow...thru covid....brave!

 

[thunderchild]

Wow...thru covid....brave!

They started Vilnius around the same time but that didn’t last long either.

 

[Matt995]

I can confirm that Riga has never been served from Birmingham

 

[thunderchild]

I can confirm that Riga has never been served from Birmingham

It definitely did for a short while, check out page 34 on this thread where it’s confirmed it’s ending.

 

[IanFarquharson]

I have checked my BHX Movements Blog and Wizz did serve RIX from BHX

 

[Matt995]

ahhh found it, a short series of flights from the 20th June 2021 to the 29th September 2021! - 11 flights in total! 🫣

so the load factor for the RIga flights was 50.83%

arrivals 11 flights, number of seats 2028, departures 11 flights, number of seat 2028

total available seats :- 4056 , seats filled:- 2062 (per CAA), average passengers per flight:- 93.7

I appreciate 2021 was during covid times, but based on these figures, do we think there is demand for Riga flights now?

 

[Ray Finkle]

Is there any suggestion or any chance their could be a new route for next summer?

Not sure about next summer but when talking about growth for the future Tom did mention Wizz, amongst others.

Hopefully once the aircraft issues are sorted we may start seeing some increases again.

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Not sure about next summer but when talking about growth for the future Tom did mention Wizz, amongst others.

Hopefully once the aircraft issues are sorted we may start seeing some increases again.

If they do increase routes then I would expect an increase on Budapest and Bucharest.
In terms of new routes probably Tirana(Even though it’s been dropped)
Krakow
Katowice
Warsaw
Gdnask
Wroclaw

I think that should be a priority for the airport to bring them routes back

 

[Ray Finkle]

Krakow
Katowice
Warsaw
Gdnask
Wroclaw

Krakow still has Jet2 and Ryanair with easyjet starting in Nov. It's a popular place but 4 airlines may be a step too far?

100% agree with the others and I'd also add Riga and Cluj-Napoca.

I think we may be waiting a year or two before we see anything though.

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Krakow still has Jet2 and Ryanair with easyjet starting in Nov. It's a popular place but 4 airlines may be a step too far?

100% agree with the others and I'd also add Riga and Cluj-Napoca.

I think we may be waiting a year or two before we see anything though.

Ryanair serving daily which I hope they continue
Jet2 serving 2 weekly
EasyJet 2 weekly seasonal only

So wizz maybe given a slot after March next year however very unlikely

Cluj Napoca
Riga
Vilnius?

 

[Ray Finkle]

I think we were all absolutely shocked that Ryanair increased KRK to daily after easyjet announced the route 🤣

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

I think we were all absolutely shocked that Ryanair increased KRK to daily after easyjet announced the route 🤣

I wasn’t to be honest especially when wizz air suspended flights

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Has Wizz air updated its 2025 summer schedule as of yet?

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Hiya.
Now Wizz air plan to expand from Poland and Warsaw next year.
Ok yeah aircraft issues are the main issue but if they plan to expand and add aircraft aircraft from bases then surely we could be interested even though their an LCA

 

[IanFarquharson]

BHX-FCO 3pw from Mid June 🙂

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

That’s great news and News that you and we was probably not going to except.

Hopefully a few more like Warsaw and Katowice then that will do me

 

[Ray Finkle]

Definitely not one that I saw coming.

Great to see more well needed capacity to Rome 👍

 

[thunderchild]

When I saw the Wizz thread bumped up my first thought was which route have they cut now!