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Wizz Air, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest low-fare, low-cost airline announced today that it would start new flights from Gdansk to Lübeck. Lübeck is the second German city after Dortmund served by the airline from Pomerania. From Gdansk Wizz Air currently flies to London/Luton, Dortmund and will commence flights to Stockholm/Skavsta and Liverpool on 1st December 2005 and 1st March 2006 respectively.
This is already the fourth news on Wizz Air’s expansion from Poland and particularly from Gdansk within a short period of two weeks. Wizz Air just recently announced the establishement of its new crew bases in Warsaw and Gdansk and the start of the new Wroclaw-Dortmund and Gdansk-Liverpool flights from March 2006. All these steps underline Wizz Air’s commitment to the Polish market. Since the start of operations in May 2004 Wizz Air has carried 1.5 million passengers on the airline’s routes to and from Poland and became the undisputed market leader with over 40% share of the low cost market.
The new Gdansk-Lübeck flight will commence on 3rd March 2006 4 times a week. Tickets are already on sale for as low as 19 PLN 4.99 euro (excluding taxes and charges) on wizzair.com or by calling the Wizz Air call centre on +48 22 351 94 99.
József Váradi, Chief Executive Officer of Wizz Air said: "We have been successfuly operating from Frankfurt-Hahn and Dortmund in Western Germany and are now looking forward to serve Lübeck in Northern part of the country. Connecting Gdansk and the Lübeck, just 68 km from Hamburg is the first move of Wizz Air to offer a low fare and comfortable flight opportunity between Northern Germany and Central and Eastern Europe."
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Wizz Air is Central & Eastern Europe’s leading low fare - low cost airline. Wizz Air flies a young fleet of 180 seater Airbus A320 aircraft from Katowice, Warsaw, Gdansk and Poznan in Poland, from Budapest in Hungary and from Sofia in Bulgaria on 33 European routes to 19 destinations currently. Since its start in May 2004 Wizz Air has carried over 2.2 million passengers.