Low-cost operator Wizz Air expects to have 15% more aircraft in its fleet by March 2020 than it had indicated a year ago.
The airline's latest fleet schedule, disclosed during its first-quarter results presentation, shows it will have a fleet of 120 aircraft by the end of the 2019-20 fiscal year.
This figure is a substantial increase on the 104 aircraft – equally split between Airbus A320s and A321s – listed in the fleet plan in July last year.
Wizz Air says it expects to receive 13 new aircraft, including 10 A321s, in the current fiscal year.
Chief executive Jozsef Varadi says this will give the airline 26 A321s, accounting for a third of the carrier's planned seat capacity.
He says this will give the airline a "clear cost advantage" against most of its rivals. The airline recently opted to order another 10 A321s.
Wizz will take 15 A321s, including its first three A321neos, in 2018-19, and the expansion will continue with 20 A321s – all but three of them A321neos – over 2019-20.
Source: Cirium Dashboard
