New service will see Budapest provide a further 1,195 one-way weekly seats to the transcontinental nation
Rounding up the tip of a busy first week of this 12 months’s summer time season, Budapest Airport has celebrated the launch of Wizz Air’s each day service to Istanbul in the present day, representing the airline’s first Turkish connection from the Hungarian gateway.
Utilizing the ultra-low-cost provider’s fleet of A321 Neos on the 1,017-km sector, the brand new service will see Budapest provide a further 1,195 one-way weekly seats to the transcontinental nation.
Commenting on the launch, Balázs Bogáts, Airline Development Director, Budapest Airport mentioned: “Turkey is our fifth largest country market and with the addition of Wizz Air’s new service, which will be joined by the carrier’s connection to Antalya later in the season, we will be offering more than 50 weekly flights to four popular destinations in the large peninsula.”
Bogáts provides: “As a significant crossroad for trade and transportation between the East and the West, we’re sure there will be high demand for Wizz Air’s service to Istanbul, from both business and leisure customers.”
Budapest Airport will provide greater than 1,500 flights to Turkey this summer time, serving Antalya, Istanbul, Izmir, and Sabiha Gökçen.
Wizz Air, legally integrated as Wizz Air Hungary Ltd. is a Hungarian ultra-low-cost provider with its head workplace in Budapest, Hungary. The airline serves many cities throughout Europe, in addition to some locations in North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. It has the biggest fleet of any Hungarian airline, though it’s not a flag provider, and serves 44 nations.
Its Jersey-based mum or dad firm, Wizz Air Holdings plc, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
As of 2020, the airline has its largest bases at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport and London Luton Airport and flies to 164 airports.
Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, previously referred to as Budapest Ferihegy International Airport and nonetheless generally referred to as simply Ferihegy, is the worldwide airport serving the Hungarian capital metropolis of Budapest.
It is by far the biggest of the nation’s 4 industrial airports, forward of Debrecen and Hévíz–Balaton.
