Wizz Air, which has 15 bases, in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Serbia and Lithuania, carried over 11 million passengers last year, up 15% on the year.
The average occupancy rate was over 84%, a level also registered in the previous years, reads the press release.
Last year, the airline opened an operating base in Targu Mures, central Romania, and two others in Belgrade (Serbia) and Vilnius (Lithuania).
Wizz Air employs 1,500 people, of whom 337 in Romania. It runs 51 flights from its bases in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and Targu Mures, and the new flights announced for 2012 are: Bucharest – Verona (Italy) and Bucharest – Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
Airlines Blue Air, Fly Nikki, Germanwings, easyJet and Ryanair also run low-cost flights in Romania.