Leeds Bradford: Wizz Air Flights, New Routes & Schedule Updates

[White Heather]

All three of tonight's Wizz flights (disregarding the earlier Cluj Napoca) were operated by A321 NEOs..I haven't seen that before. It's usually a mix of NEOs and standard A321s.

 

[BarnsleyHolidays]

All three of tonight's Wizz flights (disregarding the earlier Cluj Napoca) were operated by A321 NEOs..I haven't seen that before. It's usually a mix of NEOs and standard A321s.

........ including an interesting apron aircraft swap, KRK to OTP and OTP to KRK. Imagine the crews on roller skates !

BH

 

[Adiewomersley]

Wizz are a nightmare. Me and my wife and two friends were booked for a December trip to Krakow. They changed the date twice and the last time by three days.... We've given it up as a bad job and will now use Ryanair from Luton. We have work to sort out and stuff. Not a great image.

 

[White Heather]

Wizz are a nightmare. Me and my wife and two friends were booked for a December trip to Krakow. They changed the date twice and the last time by three days.... We've given it up as a bad job and will now use Ryanair from Luton. We have work to sort out and stuff. Not a great image.

Welcome to the group.

To be fair to Wizz, the odds are this is due to the need to ground a significant number of NEO aircraft to undertake checks on their Pratt & Whitney engines, which is a major job. This isn't the airlines fault as it's a safety directive and affects every airline that flies aircraft powered by these engines. They have already axed flights across their network whilst the checks are undertaken over the next few months and explained that cancellations and disruption are inevitable due to aircraft shortages during this period.

There's no doubt Wizz have a well earned bad reputation and these checks will only to add to it, but unfortunately there's nothing they can do other than try to minimise disruption and pay money back on time. At least they've done it early and given you the opportunity to book with Ryanair.

 

[Aviador]

It's not just Wizz either. Every year about now and at various times over the winter months Ryanair chops and changes its schedule. Most other airlines will do it to some extent.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Wizz are a nightmare. Me and my wife and two friends were booked for a December trip to Krakow. They changed the date twice and the last time by three days.... We've given it up as a bad job and will now use Ryanair from Luton. We have work to sort out and stuff. Not a great image.

Nice to hear from a new member. As WH says this is probably outside Wizz's control, but you can read more on the subject if you go back a page on this thread. Theres also a positive report on Wizz's customer service.

 

[Adiewomersley]

Forgot I had to re sign up. I have posted for years on and off (armadillomaster).

I understand they need to operationally change things, but 3 different dates and by so many days is out of our acceptability and we sacked them off.

As someone who understands aviation I would give them a go again, but others who don't may not.

I use Ryanair frequently and can honestly say I've never had any issues with them ever.

 

[Finger66]

I am sure it is frustrating for you but you also have to remember that the route isn't daily, so that won't have helped. It is a shame though as they are apparently performing strongly from LBA

 

[lbaspotter]

Wizz Air have started to put some of there LBA summer 2024 flights on sale.

Gdansk - 2x weekly Tue & Sat
Katowice - Not on sale yet
Krakow - 2x weekly Mon & Fri
Warsaw Chopin - 2x weekly Wed & Sun
Wroclaw - Not on sale
Bucharest - 2x weekly Mon & Fri
Cluj Napoca - 2x weekly Tue & Sat

I would expect this to change over time with more flights added.

 

[White Heather]

Wizz Air have started to put some of there LBA summer 2024 flights on sale.

Gdansk - 2x weekly Tue & Sat
Katowice - Not on sale yet
Krakow - 2x weekly Mon & Fri
Warsaw Chopin - 2x weekly Wed & Sun
Wroclaw - Not on sale
Bucharest - 2x weekly Mon & Fri
Cluj Napoca - 2x weekly Tue & Sat

I would expect this to change over time with more flights added.

Hope so. They're flying 4 to Bucharest this summer aren't they?

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Hope so. They're flying 4 to Bucharest this summer aren't they?

If the positive reports about the popularity of the flights and satisfaction of Wizz with LBA in general are correct I think we should expect increases year on year and hopefully some new destinations to be announced.

 

[Finger66]

In theory yes but there may be too many other factors affecting Wizz as a whole just now that may prevent that from happening in the short term. Anyway we shall see and may even know more after the upcoming ACC meeting

 

[752]

Looking on the Wizz App, Wrocław doesn’t seem bookable after 4th November.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Looking on the Wizz App, Wrocław doesn’t seem bookable after 4th November.

Very disappointing.

 

[White Heather]

Looking on the Wizz App, Wrocław doesn’t seem bookable after 4th November.

1-0 to Ryanair? Although this route, if it's one of the thinner ones, may be being dropped for now due to ongoing aircraft shortages due to the engine issues. Maybe back later. Maybe not.

Let's hope they replace it with something else. We really need Vilnius back.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

1-0 to Ryanair? Although this route, if it's one of the thinner ones, may be being dropped for now due to ongoing aircraft shortages due to the engine issues. Maybe back later. Maybe not.

Let's hope they replace it with something else. We really need Vilnius back.

Whatever the reason its concerning that Wizz have reduced from their DSA schedule.

 

[Aviador]

I believe the airline is cutting 10% of it's schedule for the winter due to ongoing problems with its Pratt & Whitney CFM engines. The airline also has three aircraft stuck in Kiev. We don't yet know if that will impact LBA and we know Wizz alters its schedule nearly as much as Ryanair so I don't think we can say just yet.

 

[Finger66]

Definitely a lot going on with Wizz just now. I have my own overall thoughts about them , which are on the whole very negative about a lot of things, but because of just how negative they are (and for the record I am not in the know) under the circumstances it's best I keep those to myself. It won't however take a genius to work out what they are!

 

[AirBingley]

Maybe also the availability of aircraft and the preference for late evenings have caused them to cut to what they can deliver as opposed to what is optimistic - there will have been damage to Wizz locally because of the delays and diverts.....

 

[White Heather]

Maybe also the availability of aircraft and the preference for late evenings have caused them to cut to what they can deliver as opposed to what is optimistic - there will have been damage to Wizz locally because of the delays and diverts.....

There have been very few diverts in the last 6 months and most if what they were required from LBAs restrictions as much as Wizz Air's delays. In the winter, Wizz were landing ok in fog when others were diverting. It's their delays that cause the really bad press.