Wizz Air
- József Váradi (CEO)
- Christopher Collins ( COO)
Wizz Air, Wizz Air Hungary Ltd. actually. , Is a medium - or Eastern European low-cost airline based in Budapest and at present 16 bases.
History
Wizz Air was founded in July 2003 by József Váradi, former CEO of Malév Hungarian based in London. On 4 September 2003 the company was registered as a Limited in London. It also has subsidiaries in Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria and Ukraine were registered. The main airline Wizz Air is to this day the Wizz Air Hungary. Offer low -cost services in Central and Eastern Europe, was the destination, and how the budget airline Ryanair airports to fly in the vicinity of large cities.
With Air Polonia, which was a package flyer at this time and wanted to be a low cost airline Exploratory talks were held. The launch was financed with 30 million and 50 million euros, which come from venture capital funds. As a fleet of Airbus A320 -200 was selected, from which you wanted to have five pieces to the first flight. The planes that they selected another, flew above with a Colombian airline. Soon afterwards, was signed with Lufthansa a contract for the maintenance of the aircraft.
On 13 and 14 May 2004, the first two Airbus A320-200s were officially handed over to the International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Berlin- Schönefeld, since the first Wizz Air flight was scheduled to go on 19 May 2004 from Katowice to London. After this took place, Wizz Air opened on 23 June 2004 with a first commercial flight from Budapest to line operation. In the first three and a half months were with Wizz Air already 250,000 passengers flown, after a year already 1.4 million.
2007 won József Váradi, CEO of Wizz Air, the Ernst & Young Awards Brave Innovator. With the price of breakthrough in the airline business in Hungary, the region and the business model of Wizz Air was appreciated.
In summer 2008 Wizz Air became the first low cost airline in Ukraine.
In fiscal 2008, Wizz Air posted a loss of 9.5 million euros, at the same time it was reported that the company was in deficit since the start of flight operations and have in the meantime amassed a total loss of 78 million euros.
In 2010 Wizz Air was measured by turnover of the 50 largest companies in Hungary. In the same year a total of 9.6 million passengers were transported at an occupancy rate of 84%, this corresponds to a passenger growth of 23%.
2011 eleven million passengers flew with Wizz Air, representing growth of 15% over 2010. Polish On routes but flew only 2% more passengers than in 2010. This shows that Wizz Air had halted the expansion of Polish routes in recent years and has increasingly focused on Romania, Lithuania and Serbia. But Poland is still the largest capital market in the airline.
In July 2012, the airline was excluded from the ticket safe travel insurance. The Ticket Safe travel insurance was set shortly thereafter for all air carriers. In the same month Wizz Air announced that it would test a fee for oversized cabin baggage from 1 August 2012, on the route from London Luton to Katowice. The new scheme has since been extended to the entire route network.
Destinations
The network of Wizz Air extends from their Central or Eastern European bases from numerous destinations throughout Europe as well as individual goals in the Near East. As the first European low-cost airline, Dubai will also be served.
In German-speaking Wizz Air currently operates in Basel, Dortmund, Hahn, Cologne / Bonn, Lübeck and Memmingen. In Dortmund Wizz Air is measured by the number of passengers, the largest operating airline there, but operates on site no basis. Austria is not previously served.
Bases
As is usual for most low cost airlines, Wizz Air has no turnstiles but with still 16 bases in July 2013, where aircraft and personnel are stationed laid:
- Bulgaria: Sofia
- Lithuania Lithuania: Vilnius
- Macedonia Macedonia: Skopje
- Poland Poland: Wroclaw, Gdansk, Katowice, Poznan and Warsaw Chopin
- Romania Romania: Bucharest, Cluj -Napoca, Târgu Mureş and Timişoara
- Serbia Serbia: Belgrade
- Czech Republic Czech Republic: Prague
- Ukraine: Zhulyany
- Hungary Hungary: Budapest
Fleet
As of September 2013 the fleet of Wizz Air and Wizz Air Ukraine from 45 aircraft is with a mean age of 4 years:
- 45 Airbus A320 -200 ( 4 operated by Wizz Air Ukraine )
- 86 Airbus A320 -200
- 26 Airbus A321 -200
Wizz Air only uses Airbus A320 -200 to streamline costs, for example, in the pilot training or maintenance. It can also be used as in case of failure of a machine to another easily.
Service
Wizz Air offers its customers on their flights for a fee beverage and food service, which is called " Wizz Café " on. In addition, a shopping service, which is called " Wizz Boutique " offered.