Wizz Air executive vice-president John Stephenson told a news conference Thursday a fourth aircraft will be allocated to the airport in Cluj, raising the airline’s capacity by 30%.
The airline will launch twice weekly flights on four new routes starting October and December, to Cologne, Nuremberg, Geneva and Malmo, reaching a total of 20 international routes in ten countries. The company will also operate more frequent flights to destinations such as Milan, Paris, Rome, Dortmund and Bologna.
Stephenson added the airline is likely to launch shorter flights in five years to closer destinations, such as Budapest.
Wizz Air currently operates 84 routes from Romania to 40 destinations and carried 3.2 million passengers to and from Romania last year, compared to 2.7 million in 2012. The Hungarian airline operator has flights from five airports in Romania and will start operations on a sixth, Craiova, this summer.