The modern 180-seater Airbus A320 aircraft will support the operations of the newest services available from Sibiu to Copenhagen, Tel Aviv, Paris Beauvais, Basel and Frankfurt Hahn, as well as the increased frequencies to four popular destinations from Sibiu: London Luton, Memmingen, Nuremberg and Dortmund.
”Today we are celebrating 2 years of our Sibiu base with the arrival of the second WIZZ aircraft in the local fleet and the launch of five long-awaited services to Copenhagen, Tel Aviv, Paris Beauvais, Basel and Frankfurt Hahn,” Sorina Ratz, Acting Head of Corporate Communications at Wizz Air, told a press conference in Sibiu on Friday.
Flights on the five new routes will be operated twice and three times a week at fares starting from RON39 to Basel, RON69 to Copenhagen and Paris, and RON119 to Frankfurt and Tel Aviv, respectively.
Wizz’s Sibiu base operations have increased by 70% in 2018, offering nearly half a million seats on sale to 11 destinations in 8 countries. The overall investment in the Sibiu base exceeds $200 million and further stimulates the local job market, employing a local team of more than 70 aviation professionals and supporting over 350 jobs on a yearly basis in the region in the affiliated industries.
In the first five months of 2018, Wizz Air carried 110,000 passengers from and to Sibiu.
Wizz Air offers 142 routes to 22 countries (including one domestic flight on Bucharest – Cluj Napoca route) across Europe from ten Romanian airports.