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Wizz Air will discontinue flights between Hahn and Tuzla from October 30, bringing its total number of terminated routes from its former base in Bosnia and Herzegovina to twelve. Wizz previously announced the closure of its Tuzla base operations from mid-September. It initially planned to cancel eleven routes, leaving only Hahn, Basel, Dortmund and Memmingen in service. However, it has now opted to discontinue the Hahn flights as well. Services on the route are currently maintained five times per week.
Why would you stop a route with "5 weekly flights" I still can't figure out what's going on?
ReplyDeleteCurrently five weekly, goes down to 2 weekly next month and cancelled from October. Highly seasonal diaspora traffic.
DeleteAs they will close their TZL base this would mean that a plane from another base must serve the route which is far from being perfect and very complicated to schedule as well as dangerous in case of delays as the staff might run out of flight hours. For example the Banja Luka- Basel flights are operated now by a Bulgarian based plane which flies SOF-EAP-BNX-EAP-SOF with the same crew all the way over. If there are substantial delays on more than one leg this would mean that all the following will be cancelled and the plane won't be returning to SOF cancelling many other flights. I think Wizz just don't wanna risk it.
DeleteHamburg Banja Luka is served by Wizz plane from Belgrade. It starts in BG and fly to Malmö, than Hamburg Banja Luka
DeleteFrankfurt is not highly seasonal diaspora traffic, there are many young Bosnian people travelling for leisure or to see their cousins as well, in fact that's the majority of their pax
DeleteThey won't fly at all by next summer by the looks of things
ReplyDeleteWizz will definitely reduce flights to 3 destinations from Tuzla because they are with A321. I don't expect more than 2 weekly flights each route
DeleteWhich airline do you think passengers will use after Wizz pulls out?
ReplyDeleteI'm not just talking about Frankfurt!
DeleteBelgrade
DeleteThey will drive or take a bus :)
DeleteSJJ
DeleteLet's see if Wizz brings back BEG-HHN in the future. They are making a killing in Berlin and Memmingen, they could try this one again.
DeleteAltough I would like it to happen I do not think W6 will bring back BEG-HHN.
DeleteNo single cancelled destination was brought back from Belgrade.
They will use new Tuzla canton airlines, GoAT Tuzla Airways
DeleteThey also stopped short of promoting their new routes on social media. Maybe because a year later they don't exist….
ReplyDeleteThey've reduced many flights from the UK also this winter. It wouldn't surprise me if they go out of business by next Spring
ReplyDeleteYes. Tuzla will break them. They reduced flights from London because of major issues with engines on new neo planes which they operate out of the UK.
DeleteThey are also in trouble with the CAA for not compensating passengers for delays.
DeleteThey are also terminating all flights from Kukes in Albania, they are obviously leaving these low yielding markets.
DeleteOut of business? Wow, some people here really have no idea what they are talking about. It’s quite sad.
DeleteSo that means 150.000 pax max next year… if not even less. Such a shame :(
ReplyDeleteThey have a major problem with the engines, they had to cancel or reduce many routes from Budapest as well, so Tuzla was probably a no brainer for them, they would rather cancel everything in Tuzla than some major European airport.
ReplyDeleteYeah this engine problem I expect will mean them reducing their winter schedule and probably see more cancelled routes. The CEO said as much when they announced results. It will definitely mean disruption to their schedule. Although imagine other carriers in Europe will also be impacted.
DeleteRubbish. They are cutting some of their planned growth in bases they opened recently. Tuzla is an old base operated with old aircraft, and they're shutting it down completely.
DeleteTuzla is a town in the middle of nowhere. Wizz likes more to cut bases and routes in such places than in other European destinations
DeleteLol
ReplyDeleteTZL is doomed :/
ReplyDeleteTZL will be fine in time. Don’t worry about them. Potential is there.
DeleteYes, great potential really. When Wizz has gone the question is, who will shut down the light
DeleteI think their are now focus on Abu Dhabi base. And they need planes for operating that routes. It's way cheaper to close base in Tuzla. I dont think they have balls to canceled flys from Abu Dhabi. If they will than I think they can close base. In midle east you have many airlines to fly with them.
ReplyDeleteAnd then they just cancelled Abu-Dhabi-Sarajevo...
DeleteWizzair is fine. This is overall restructure.
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