All Wizz Air articles – Page 14
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Analysis
ROUTES: UK market key part of short-haul European growth
European airlines have been adding some of the most capacity into UK airports analysis of data from Flightglobal's schedules specialist Innovata for the second quarter shows.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Europe's low-cost carriers overlap
Low-cost carriers have made their advance in Europe largely by finding new markets or competing with legacy rivals rather than taking each other on directly.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Volotea bids to remain under the radar in LCC battle
Volotea may sponsor French Ligue 1 club FC Nantes, but chief executive Carlos Munoz believes the budget carrier is in a league of its own when it comes to its business model and its rivalry with the rest of Europe's low-cost carriers.
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News
Wizz agrees Budapest MRO pact with Lufthansa Technik
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air has agreed a line-maintenance pact with Lufthansa Technik Budapest covering Airbus A320s stationed at the Hungarian capital.
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Wizz Air lifts full-year net profit forecast
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air is raising its net profit forecast again, to around €190-200 million ($215-225 million).
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Wizz signs another deal with CDB Leasing
Central European low-cost carrier Wizz Air has signed a further lease agreement with China's CDB Leasing – this time for six Airbus A321s that will begin delivering later this year.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: LCCs continue to blur the lines with charter operators
Long-held assumptions that the rise of the European low-cost carriers would lead to the death of the package charter business look ever less convincing these days.
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News
PARIS: Wizz cancels 10 A320s as part of A321neo deal
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air is to cancel orders for 10 Airbus A320s as part of its agreement to take 110 A321neos.
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NewsPARIS: Wizz signs for 110 high-density A321neos
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air has tentatively agreed to take 110 Airbus A321neos in a high-density, 239-seat "Cabin Flex" configuration.
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Wizz to open Budapest hangar in September
Construction has started on Wizz Air's first hangar at its Budapest base.
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ROUTES: Glasgow predicts 8.3 million passengers over full year
Glasgow airport is aiming to grow its passenger volume around 8% to 8.3 million passengers this year as its traffic gradually recovers back toward the 2006 peak of 8.85 million.
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Wizz boosts Polish links
Budget operator Wizz Air has added 10 new routes from four Polish airports as part of its summer schedule.
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Wizz closes down Ukrainian division
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air is dissolving its Ukrainian subsidiary and reducing its operations to the conflict-riven country.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: European carriers' battle for profits continues
A string of one-off restructuring, labour relations, fuel hedging, and currency hits in 2014's fourth quarter – and in the year as a whole – makes for difficulty in unpicking the financial health of European carriers.
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News
Flydubai to boost eastern European and Balkan links
Flydubai will begin new routes to Bratislava, Prague in the Czech Republic and Sofia in December.
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Wizz to establish in-house MRO operations
Wizz Air is to set up maintenance operations in a newly built hangar at Budapest airport.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Ryanair slips but still the biggest European LCC
As European low-cost carriers continue to expand increasingly outside their home markets, it is perhaps inevitable that there will be more direct competition between rivals from the sector.
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News
ROUTES: Budapest airport lures regional airlines
Budapest airport sees no scope for a homegrown successor to former flag carrier Malev, but believes there is potential for a regional operator to build a route network from the Hungarian capital.