“We ended 2018 with an increase in passenger numbers and expansion of operations. Wizz Air will be offering 9.5 million seats for sale on its routes from Romania in 2019,” the company said.
The Budapest-based carrier plans to continue expansion in Romania by launching new flights and by adding more aircraft to its fleet in Romanian bases. The company’s Romanian bases are in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iasi, Sibiu and Timisoara.
Wizz Air will allocate two new aircraft to the bases in Bucharest and Timisoara as a result of the expansion already announced for 2019, which will take the total number of its aircraft in Romania to 26, the airline said.
Wizz Air became the leading airline in Romania by number of passengers carried in 2011, beating flag carrier Tarom, which only carried 2.1 million people that year. Low-cost airline Wizz Air’s other competitors in Romania are Blue Air and Ryanair.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)