{"id":6594,"date":"2019-11-11T17:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T23:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=6594"},"modified":"2019-11-11T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T23:55:42","slug":"wizz-air-expands-in-krakow-gdansk-and-warsaw-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=6594","title":{"rendered":"WIZZ AIR Expands in Krakow, Gdansk and Warsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4\u00a0BASED AIRCRAFT,\u00a013\u00a0NEW ROUTES\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Wizz Air, one of Europe\u2019s fastest growing airlines and the largest low-cost carrier in Central and Eastern Europe&nbsp;today&nbsp;announced&nbsp;that it will&nbsp;massively&nbsp;expand its&nbsp;Polish&nbsp;operations,&nbsp;basing&nbsp;4 new&nbsp;aircraft&nbsp;in Poland.&nbsp;From&nbsp;summer&nbsp;2020&nbsp;WIZZ will launch&nbsp;15&nbsp;new&nbsp;attractive&nbsp;routes&nbsp;from Gdansk, Krakow and Warsaw as&nbsp;well as increase weekly frequencies on the most popular services, adding a total&nbsp;of&nbsp;24&nbsp;incremental&nbsp;weekly flights to its&nbsp;Polish&nbsp;schedule.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expanding its operations,&nbsp;Wizz&nbsp;Air&nbsp;creates&nbsp;over 160&nbsp;additional&nbsp;direct jobs&nbsp;and&nbsp;will have a&nbsp;team of over&nbsp;1100 dedicated crew based in Poland&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wizz Air\u2019s commitment to Polish customers is underlined by the strong growth at its other seven Polish airports as well. With a network&nbsp;of 193&nbsp;services,&nbsp;WIZZ&nbsp;will have a total of&nbsp;13&nbsp;million seats on sale on its Polish routes in 2020, which represents&nbsp;20% growth year over year.&nbsp;WIZZ\u2019s Polish operations do not only provide affordable access at WIZZ\u2019s lowest fares between Poland and the rest of Europe, but&nbsp;also stimulate the local job market in aviation and tourism&nbsp;sectors, supporting more&nbsp;than 8200 jobs&nbsp;this year&nbsp;in associated industries throughout the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the latest expansion of its&nbsp;Polish fleet,&nbsp;Wizz Air will have&nbsp;30&nbsp;based&nbsp;aircraft&nbsp;in Poland&nbsp;employing more than&nbsp;nearly&nbsp;1300&nbsp;customer-oriented crew, who deliver excellent service on each WIZZ&nbsp;flight. Wizz Air now offers 194&nbsp;routes&nbsp;to 28 countries from&nbsp;nine&nbsp;Polish airports.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets for\u00a0all new routes\u00a0are already on sale and can be booked\u00a0from only PLN\u00a059\u00a0on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wizzair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">wizzair.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"871\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-11-at-4.46.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-11-at-4.46.22-PM.png 722w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-11-at-4.46.22-PM-249x300.png 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephen Jones, Deputy CEO and Managing Director Wizz Air Hungary,\u00a0said: \u201cFollowing the recent deployment of the 3rd\u00a0based aircraft at\u00a0Krakow Airport and announcement of new routes in\u00a0Gdanskk\u00a0and Warsaw, we are thrilled to announce\u00a0further expansion of our\u00a0Polish\u00a0operations.\u00a0By adding\u00a04 new\u00a0aircraft\u00a0followed by 13 new routes\u00a0to our\u00a0Polish\u00a0fleet we create\u00a0a number of local jobs with the airline and our business partners while bringing more opportunities to\u00a0the country. We are sure that\u00a0our loyal\u00a0Polish\u00a0customers will welcome the extended offer of attractive destinations and affordable travel options and\u00a0we are also confident that our low fares will attract more visitors to\u00a0Polish cities, which could stimulate tourism and hospitality industries. We stay committed to Poland\u00a0and keep on offering\u00a0the lowest possible fares and an\u00a0excellent value service on each WIZZ flight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"829\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-11-at-4.46.37-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-11-at-4.46.37-PM.png 504w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-11-at-4.46.37-PM-182x300.png 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"786\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/A321ceo-WIZZAIR-Delivery.jpg?fit=640%2C262\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/A321ceo-WIZZAIR-Delivery.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/A321ceo-WIZZAIR-Delivery-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/A321ceo-WIZZAIR-Delivery-768x314.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/A321ceo-WIZZAIR-Delivery-1024x419.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wizz Air, one of Europe\u2019s fastest growing airlines and the largest low-cost carrier in Central and Eastern Europe today announced that it will massively expand its Polish operations, basing 4 new aircraft in Poland. From summer 2020 WIZZ will launch 15 new attractive routes from Gdansk, Krakow and Warsaw as well as increase weekly frequencies on the most popular services, adding a total of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,3965,89,5637,5992,7929,2203,4957,5676,868,1103],"tags":[1649,5393,3974,6568,539,464,118,160,3945,1925,4202,1924,6044,786,1767,4026,6439,482,8073,6693,5406,2558,1550,4232,2307,6077,1843,704,6301,1923,1567,8072,1936,718,412,1557,2611,1902,5663,719,1934,4256,8074,987,4803,1547,2801,1691,1658,2610,6472,722],"class_list":["post-6594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-airport-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-economic-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-1649","tag-access","tag-additional","tag-affordable","tag-air","tag-aircraft","tag-airlines","tag-aviation","tag-based","tag-carrier","tag-central","tag-cost","tag-direct","tag-eastern","tag-europe","tag-expands","tag-fastest","tag-flights","tag-frequencies","tag-gdansk","tag-growing","tag-hungary","tag-increase","tag-job","tag-jobs","tag-krakow","tag-largest","tag-launch","tag-local","tag-low","tag-market","tag-massively","tag-network","tag-new","tag-news","tag-operations","tag-poland","tag-polish","tag-popular","tag-routes","tag-sale","tag-schedule","tag-sectors","tag-services","tag-summer","tag-tickets","tag-tourism","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-warsaw","tag-weekly","tag-wizz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6598,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions\/6598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}