London Gatwick: Wizz Air Flights, New Routes & Base Updates

[Silvercity]

BHX surely 🙂

Nahh lol

 

[Aviador]

Wizz have always been very loyal to the airport's they fly in to I don't see them going elsewhere in the South West they will want a number of bases here located sensibly around the UK

I agree in principle but as we all know, it's a cut throat industry and nothing is ever as secure as it perhaps once was.

 

[Jerry]

If Wizz wants another look at the south-western corner of Britain it might have to look at CWL and/or EXT anyway if BRS loses its planning application appeal and is stuck at its current 10 mppa planning limit, a figure it was on course to reach next year had the pandemic not intervened.

If it's willing to open 1 aircraft bases, CWL/EXT could be options, or it could spread over all 3, BRS/CWL/EXT. What is interesting about Wizz is that they are willing to expand at a time when other airlines are savagely cutting routes.

 

[Nethercote2019]

LGW destinations are not what I would of expected

 

[Rob c DSA]

Apparently Wizz have secured 196 slots at Gatwick anna aero reporting this I'll post a link later

 

[Rob c DSA]

anna.aero | Temporarily Unavailable

 

[Ray Finkle]

Twenty aircraft base within a year if they can get the slots.

Wizz Air Sets Sights on 20-Jet Gatwick Base as Rivals Retreat

(Bloomberg) -- Wizz Air Holdings Plc wants to expand its new base at London’s Gatwick airport from just one plane to 20 within a year if it can secure enough takeoff and landing slots. While the hub will open with a lone Airbus SE A321 jet in October, Budapest-based Wizz sees scope to quickly...

www.swissinfo.ch

Interesting how the target market would differ to that at LTN.

A higher number of planes would be directly based at Gatwick because the bulk of passengers would be Britons making leisure trips to the continent. That contrasts with Luton, where a majority of passengers are flying in to the U.K. to work or visit friends and family.

 

[Rob c DSA]

Feel for Wizz they want the slots at Gatwick they want to build quickly and they're strong financially whilst others aren't and probably won't be again ( Norwegian and Virgin) its aa tricky situation re slots however I feel they should be given some extra slots on the basis the will use them.

 

[Jerry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1341677248777170945

 

[Jerry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1352187641203220480

 

[Jerry]

Gatwick Expansion: What Wizz Air Plans To Do With Its New Slots

Wizz Air has slots for 29 new routes from Gatwick this summer, but will they happen? Four are…

simpleflying.com

 

[CM.]

Wizz air UK:

Tenerife South will resume this winter from December 14th but Malaga is not operating this Winter that will hopefully resume next Summer. From SeanM1997 on twitter.

 

[Jerry]

Wizz Air have loaded 13 new routes (plus Tenerife) from London Gatwick in Summer 2022:
Bari
Catania
Chania
Faro
Funchal
Larnaca
Milan Malpensa
Mykonos
Palma de Mallorca
Podgorica
Rome Fiumicino
Tel Aviv
Tenerife
Vienna

https://twitter.com/x/status/1473965538179223553

 

[Jerry]

Wizz Air routes moving from London Luton to London Gatwick in Summer 2022:
- Bari
- Catania
- Faro
- Milan Malpensa
- Naples
- Rome Fiumicino
- Vienna

https://twitter.com/x/status/1473974656076029957

 

[CM.]

To add to the above the Luton-Athens routes will transfer over to London Gatwick for Summer 2022.

Seanm1997

 

[CM.]

Wizz are adding 4 new routes to the Gatwick network for Summer 22. Burgas, Palermo, varna and Venice (Marco Polo). 2 routes Palermo and Venice replace Luton.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1486671797634408454

 

[Jerry]

Wizz Air load 5 new routes from London Gatwick:
Agadir - begins 30 October 2022 - 4x weekly flights
Grenoble - 17 December - 1x weekly
Marrakesh - 30 October - 7x weekly*
Sharm El Sheikh - 1 November - 2x weekly
Verona - 13 December - 3x weekly
*replaces LTN-RAK

https://twitter.com/x/status/1552612864749346817

 

[Jerry]

New route from Gatwick to Lyon 4 weekly begins 10/1/23

https://twitter.com/x/status/1588134969725145089

 

[Brum X]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1618640888510689280

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

Oh dear. Oh dear.