Two new short-haul routes will start from Zurich and three from Geneva this summer, but the airline does not expect demand to pick-up until the third quarter of the year.
After opening two new bases in the UK in recent days, Wizz Air UK’s MD Owain Jones discusses the rationale behind the airline’s increased focus on leisure routes to points in Western Europe.
The LCC expects to fly just a quarter of its normal schedule over the coming months although looking ahead to next summer and two new seasonal bases will open in Spain and Portugal.
Wizz Air has put the brakes on plans to increase capacity to 80% in the next quarter amid heightened travel restrictions across Europe. However, the Hungarian carrier’s UK subsidiary has signaled its intention to expand from Doncaster Sheffield, just weeks after announcing a new base at the airport.
TAP Air Portugal is resuming flights to North America later this week, with New York the first destination to make its way back onto the airline’s schedule. Three new routes will also be added to its schedule from July 1.
Central and Eastern European ULCC Wizz Air this week plans to restart selected routes from London Luton and Vienna, subject to no further government restrictions being put in place.
This week: TAP Air Portugal to increase US routes; United to offer new Frankfurt connection; and Juneyao Airlines to deploy new 787-9 on Singapore service.
This week: TAP to serve Dublin after more than a decade; Wizz Air to further expand its operations in Ukraine; and Shenzhen Airlines adds a service from World Routes 2018 host Guangzhou.
Routesonline's monthly profile of an unserved, underserved or upcoming route as featured on Route Exchange. This month we take a look at the case for Lisbon-Leeds Bradford.
TAP is adding 23 new weekly frequencies into Spain during 2017, its largest international country network by capacity. This summer the Spanish market accounts for 11.2 per cent of its available seats out of Lisbon Airport.
