József Ujhelyi, chief flight operations officer Wizz Air, on Friday said the new operational base is the airline’s seventh in Romania and the 24th worldwide. He also said WizzAir will inaugurate a new operational base in Georgia (Kutaisi) in September.
Besides the new base, WizzAir also introduced flights from Sibiu to Nuremberg and Munich Memmingen in Germany, to Madrid in Spain and to Milan – Bergamo in Italy.
WizzAir keeps expanding its fleet, aiming to reach 20 aircrafts by the end of 2016. Wizz Air has recently reached a record level of 25 million passengers carried from and to Romania since it began operating locally. The airline carried 4.5 million passengers in 2015 on the routes in Romania.
Wizz Air currently operates 119 routes to 18 countries.