Wizz Air Expands at Budapest

Posted 25/11/2011

Central and Eastern European low-cost specialist Wizz Air is to open a new route from its Budapest Airport base in Hungary to the German city of Dortmund early next year.  The airline will offer a twice weekly link from January 13, 2012, increasing to three times weekly from March 27, 2012. 

The addition of this route will increase Wizz Air’s network from Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport to 22 destinations.  The carrier is the second largest at Budapest and has a 13.8 per cent share of the available seat capacity at the facility, offering almost 80 weekly flights and 14,220 seats in each direction.  In the past year it carried an estimated 1.2 milliom O&D passengers on its flights from Budapest, with London Luton, Eindhoven and Brussels Charleroi its strongest routes in terms of traffic.

“Wizz Air is now offering a truly affordable connection to the German region of Rhine-Westphalia from Budapest,” said John Stephenson, Executive Vice President of Wizz Air.  “This is an important development for many travelers who are either visiting or living in Germany, especially as Dortmund is not just an important economical and cultural centre, but also offers convenient ground transportation connections to many other major cities in the region.”

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