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Low cost carrier Wizz Air is in the process of replacing its two Airbus A320 aircraft stationed at its Belgrade base with A321s amid growing demand. The first 230-seat A321 will arrive in Belgrade today, while a second is expected during next week. As a result, the airline will up capacity by an additional fifty seats on each flight. Services to Dortmund will continue to be operated by the A320 due to runway restrictions at the German airport, with a jet from another base performing the flights. Wizz Air will launch operations from Belgrade to Heraklion and Santorini over the weekend, with Sandefjord to follow on July 1. It inaugurated its new service from the Serbian capital to Hamburg at the start of the summer season, while its Gulf offshoot commenced operations from Abu Dhabi to Belgrade last month.
DTM-BEG is operated by the A320neo from SKP. :)
ReplyDeleteI was sure Wizz will do something. They have been rather quiet for a while now. I have a feeling they might bring back BCN flights as demand seems to be returning.
ReplyDeleteAir Serbia and Vueling will fly 5x a week to Barcelona .
DeleteThat train has passed for Wizz ...
I hope they will finally bring 3rd plane in BEG.
DeleteAnyone know where these two planes will come from? Budapest?
ReplyDeleteIt seems the one today will be swapped at Stockholm Skavsta. Wizz Air site indicates plane from Belgrade is an A320 while plane from Stockholm is A321. From what I can see it will probably be a plane coming from Katowice.
DeleteI looked at FR24 and noticed that today's BNX flight to NYO is operated with A321neo. Wasn't it supposed to be an A320?
DeleteAlso all flights from Basel to BNX are with the A321Neo .
DeleteThat plane is actually based in Tirana .
They are also sending A321neo to BNX from NYO and BSL.
ReplyDeleteboth on bsl and on nyo, the plane is almost full, so they send 321-271 neo, ticket sales are going resolutely ...
DeleteA321 was in reservation system for a while
ReplyDeleteThey will send the Airbus A321 from BEG to BSL tomorrow Friday.
ReplyDeleteI am not surprised about BSL, numbers of frequencies by LX and JU was growing since quarantine was removed. Also from yesterday France opened its borders and BSL covers a part of that country as well.
ReplyDeleteAll in all this is great news for BEG!
HA-LTI A321 is coming to Belgrade!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately that one is not a NEO ..
DeleteIt's actually younger then most of their neos.
Delete^ How is that possible ?
DeleteBecause they were still receiving A321ceo when the neos started arriving. They started getting the A321neo from March 2019, this ceo was delivered in august 2019.
DeleteOkay, makes sense now .
DeleteThanks !
And to Malta flights keep on getting cancelled and postponed..while Ryanair is taking the share in Nis! seems like more a fleet issue....
ReplyDeleteNo one from Serbia can enter Malta. It's operating out of Nis because that is where the Serbian diaspora in Malta is from.
DeleteI guess cancelling the Belgrade expansion will come out as a mistake for Wizzair.
ReplyDeleteThey should have postponed it till early july, with the additional routes operated by the smaller A320.
Now a big chunk of Wizzs customer base will have to migrate to other airlines.
The already mentioned Air Serbia/Vueling duopoly to Barcelona just as an example.
True dat.
DeleteBut Wizzair has always been clueless.
Domestic routes fiasco in Norway shows Wizz strategy is to throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks.
DeleteMmm I could eat some spaghetti now.
DeleteYea, just like Air Serbia once launching flights to Varna instead of Venice (distance is exactly the same), and it took em two years to realize the mistake and correct it...
DeleteI hope Wizz services to Greek isles will be a success, so next year they offer flights to more Greek isles and more frequencies to cut the charter ripoffs.
"Wizz strategy is to throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks" - fairly standard practice for LCCs. Well, the successful ones, anyway. If they launch four routes, they're more than happy if three succeed. That level of risk taking has made them one of the fastest growing airlines in Europe, so I wouldn't knock it.
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