Wizz Air is continuing to significantly expand its operations from Pristina, with the low cost carrier scheduling five new routes for launch this December and its second based aircraft. The airline will introduce services to Berlin, Hahn, Hamburg, Malmo and Trieste, further strengthening its position at Pristina Airport just weeks after announcing the new base in the city, complemented by the introduction of three routes.
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Flights between Pristina and Berlin will commence on December 14 and operate three times per week. Services to Hahn will launch on the same day and run four times weekly. The following day, December 15, Wizz Air will introduce four weekly flights to Hamburg and three weekly rotations to Malmo. Finally, the carrier will commence a two weekly service to Trieste on December 19. The latter will temporarily pause between January 10 and March 19, before resuming for the remainder of the season.
| Route | Launch date |
| Pristina - Berlin | 14.12.2026 |
| Pristina - Hahn | 14.12.2026 |
| Pristina - Hamburg | 15.12.2026 |
| Pristina - Malmo | 15.12.2026 |
| Pristina - Trieste | 19.12.2026 |
The five new routes will add a further sixteen weekly departures from Pristina at the peak of the winter schedule. They come on top of Wizz Air’s previously announced major expansion in Pristina which includes the establishment of a base with a 239-seat Airbus A321neo aircraft from November. As part of that expansion, the airline is launching new services to Basel, Baden Baden and Charleroi, while increasing frequencies to Dortmund.
With the latest additions, Wizz Air is set to grow its Pristina network to fourteen destinations. Alongside the newly announced services and those launching in November, the airline maintains flights from the city to London Luton, Bratislava, Milan Malpensa, Rome Fiumicino, Memmingen and Dortmund.
Wizz Air has been rapidly increasing its presence in Pristina amid changes in the competitive landscape at the airport. During the first half of 2026, the airline operated approximately 1.400 flights and handled more than 304.000 passengers on its Pristina services. The carrier previously said its base opening would make it the largest scheduled airline at the airport.
Congrats Pristina!
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DeleteBravo Hrv... Ah, sorry!
DeleteThey will overtake Zagreb Airport this year.
ReplyDeleteIt is possible, but next year for sure.
DeleteWith all the gasto power PRN has they can overtake anyone :D
DeleteNot SKP for sure :D
Delete10:59
DeleteI doubt it will surpass ZAG.
Wizz is attacking existing routes in PRN - not exactly creating new markets.
And that has an effect on the overall PAX increase.
Wizz is clearly going all-in on Pristina. Eight new destinations in such a short period is a huge increase.
ReplyDeleteThey see that GP aviation is weak player now and they attack at the right time and moment.
DeleteTrieste instead of Ljubljana...why and how
ReplyDeleteBig diaspora in Italy.
DeleteWizz is not welcomed at LJU. They only fly TGD and SKP because they are/were getting money from them.
DeleteWizz not welcome in LJU? Comeon...
DeleteWizz Air rocks! Well done
DeleteFraport successfully blocked it.
Deleteand Wizz is not geting money from PRN?? lol
DeleteWizz air getting money from PRN too it is subsided routes as well
DeleteAnonymous 17:19- How when its already two airlines operating PRN-BER??? Im sure that Trieste route is sub from both airports
DeleteThe Government of Kosovo does not subsidize airlines. It has never done so before. This year, however, it made an exception by allocating a €2 million fund specifically to help airlines operating in Kosovo maintain their flight schedules.
DeleteThe Government of Kosovo has allocated €2 million for airlines operating in Kosovo to help prevent flight cancellations, mainly due to the increase in jet fuel prices.
To benefit from these funds, airlines must meet certain criteria. The measure applies to airlines that “maintain the frequency of flights at more than 85% of their planned schedule for 2026.”
In addition, each flight must have more than 80% of its seats occupied.
The €3 payment will be made in cooperation with Prishtina Airport. In this arrangement, the Government will pay €2.10, while the remaining amount will be covered by the airport.
Wizz Air will not benefit significantly from this, considering that it had relatively few routes in its 2026 schedule. The main beneficiary here has been GP Aviation.
However, I think Wizz Air is making a strong push in Prishtina. Considering the high fuel prices and the situation within GP Aviation, the outlook for the company is not very promising. This creates a significant opportunity for Wizz Air to benefit from the space that could be created if GP Aviation fails.
Berlin was an obvious gap. Three weekly should do very well with the size of the diaspora there.
ReplyDeletewhich gap??? EasyJet flies there altesdy ...
Deletelol. they dont know the destinations from their airport
DeleteThe SKP brigade is late today. Already polluted half the comments
DeleteTrieste is the most interesting one for me. I wonder how much of that route will be Kosovo traffic and how much will come from northern Italy and Slovenia.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that Trieste is paused for most of the weakest winter period. At least they are being realistic with the schedule.
DeleteI have met quite a few Kosovo Albanians in Trieste traveling to TIA and they were from Slovenia, Udine and Trieste. The route targets them.
DeleteSixteen additional weekly flights just from these five routes is not a small expansion at all.
ReplyDeleteAt this rate I would not be surprised if a second aircraft is based in Pristina sooner rather than later.
ReplyDeleteSecond based aircraft was announced today. Therefore we have these five new routes.
DeleteGermany remains the key market for PRN and these additions make perfect sense. Berlin, Hamburg and Hahn all have strong potential.
ReplyDeleteOf course the gasto is the strongest to Germany and Swiss and any route will work at PRN
DeleteAny route? Really?
DeleteGreat news for passengers because fares from Pristina can be extremely high around holidays. More competition is badly needed.
ReplyDeleteWow well done Prishtina!
ReplyDeleteThis will put even more pressure on GP Aviation.
ReplyDeleteAll the new routes overlap with GP's, besides Trieste. I do not see them surviving this.
DeleteAnd they already started retreating after the first expansion
Deletehttps://www.exyuaviation.com/2026/08/wizz-eyes-further-pristina-expansion-as.html
The Indian-Bulgarian operator managed to close BSL for quite a few hours the other day after one of their brand new 737 aborted take-off at very high speed.
DeleteI would like to see Vienna added next
ReplyDeleteThey quit Vienna for good.
DeleteI think wizz has closed its Vienna base, that's why it transferred all its Vienna flights to Bratislava.
DeleteHighly.unlikely they will start Bratislava from PRN.
DeleteThey've been flying it for months
DeleteYour wrong. This route exists for about a year and a half now.
Deletelol @anon 11.31
Delete@11:26 Vienna is still possble.
DeleteWizz might not have a base in VIE anymore, but that doesn't mean it can't operate with an aircraft based in PRN.
Before VIE-PRN ended - the route was carrying 150k PAX annually. Probably the best performing route in Kosovo by a single operator. Likely one of the busiest in whole exYU as well.
They have aircraft in many other bases but don't fly to VIE. Unless they restart operations to VIE in a bigger scale they won't just make a random exception for PRN.
Delete@13:56
DeleteMaybe. Maye they will reinstate at all once. Maybe selectively. Maybe none.
I'm still puzzled that Ryanair still flies from/to Vienna though.
Wizzair is not returning here, if there was no austrian Lauda subsidiary Ryanair would be gone too. Greetings from Vienna.
Delete@14:10
DeleteThanks. Lauda is the magic word that explains everything apparently :-D
Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteBravo Kosovo
ReplyDeleteWon't this impact their Skopje operations?
ReplyDeleteThey get paid to fly in SKP so probably not much.
DeleteI guess some passenger numbers to three D destinations might drop a bit.
Delete@11.52 most stupid comment of the day
Deletenone of these routes are subsidied
11:52 they get payed in PRN as well to fly ;)
Delete@Anonymous11:52
DeleteHonestly flying STR to Skopje just to drive all the way back to Kosovo is so annoying. I’d easily pay extra for a direct flight to Prishtina. There are way too many albanians in Stuttgart for PRN not to have a direct route. I hope STR is next
17:49 something that works in SKP or other airport doesnt mean that will work in PRN too ;)
Delete17:49 something that works in SKP or other airport doesnt mean that will work in PRN too ;)
DeleteSKP is already hit hard since Wizz announced its PRN future plans. It will become even worse for SKP and TIA soon as diaspora kosovans get their cities connected to PRN.
DeleteBye Bye gp tragic aviation we almost ended tragic in Basel last week
ReplyDeleteGood riddance.
DeleteBRING IN STUTTGART PLEASE!
ReplyDeleteStuttgart, Eindhoven, Paris...
DeleteRoma, Madrid as well
DeleteSorry FCO already there
DeleteRome is aleady served.
Delete& Barcelona instead of Madrid. 100%
Stuttgart and Eindhoven are the most likely new routes for the next wave.
Delete@12.08 wisful thinking
DeleteTrieste is the most 'exotic' of these.
ReplyDeleteLJU GP could be in trouble...
DeleteA lousy, expensive 1x week to LJU by GP doesn't even count.
DeleteIm betting that Trieste is getting sub from both Trieste and Prishtina Airport. Never been operated before
DeleteWizzair knows very well market in Kosovo will work out.
ReplyDeleteThey might as well announce their 3 plane right away.
Third aircraft might come for summer season.
Delete@13:25
DeleteI think so too. 3rd aircraft should be announced in December.
last time it didnt work out ...
DeleteNo 2th aircraft is announced today and those routes will be served with 2 aircrafts.
DeleteBravo Pristina .Bravo Wizzair .Yes Malmo -Pristina Bingo
ReplyDeleteEvery time passenger numbers start falling at an ex-Yu airport they run to Wizz. First Podgorica, now Pristina.
ReplyDeleteIs ZAG next? 😉
DeleteI don't think PRN gave them anything more than what everyone else could take. Wizz just has extra capacity and flexibility which they didn't have before and are now expanding everywhere makes sense.
Delete2 millions for diaspora routes. you had an article here. should i link it?
DeleteThe fees that pristina governmenrt has set for the airport are very high , so Wizz air without subsidies is not coming there. They already talked about that the fess there are very expensive to open a base
DeleteStuttgart PLEASE and maybe some touristic destination like Barcelona or Naples
ReplyDeletehahaha
DeleteYou got Trieste thats your leisure route hahahahahha
DeletePristina has one of the strongest VFR markets in the Balkans, so Wizz probably sees very little risk here.
ReplyDeleteOnly after they got subsidies. Until then they didn't want to open a base even though it was a no brainer
DeleteSubsidies were due to the fuel prices, and not to stimulate new demand.
DeleteNo. Wizz has long complained about fees at PRN. There is even an interview here with Varadi where he was asked about PRN and he said the fees are too high because they are set by the government and not the airport operator. If it was up to the airport operator, the airline would probably have opened a base a long time ago.
DeleteHopefully this does not end with too much capacity being dumped into the market and routes disappearing after one season.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably only the beginning :)
ReplyDeleteBeggining of GP aviation dissapearing yes :)
DeleteThe biggest winner here is Pristina Airport. Wizz is adding a huge amount of capacity in just a few months.
ReplyDeleteNothing huge here.
DeleteWizz recently opened 14 new destinations out of Podgorica in one go, less then half the size of PRN.
Just these 5 routes, if maintained all year are about 400k seats.
Delete@14:34
DeleteExactly. 400k will make up for what GP is, and will be losing this year.
Not enough for growth. Let alone double-digit growth, what PRN is used to.
Surprised there is still no Paris in this expansion.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it will come soon
DeleteWizz had the biggest expansion across ex-Yu this summer and now it has the biggest in winter too.
ReplyDeleteParis, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona and JFK - then PRN is all set as far as its capacity is concerned 🙃
ReplyDeletedemand* (not capacity)
DeleteYou forgot Medellin as an all-the-time fully booked destination ;))
Deletepristina trieste why not pristina ljubljana? there is only one rotation gp aviation per week?
ReplyDelete1. Competition from SKP
Delete2. Larger catchment area + Trieste is almost tucked into Slovenian territory :-)
Some of those routes as Berlin,Hamburg and much more are served by 2 or 3 different airlines. It is just wild how big the gasto demand is in this airport🙄
ReplyDeleteAdmin put a leash on this guy, seriously
DeleteHe is talking the truth, one route is served by 3 airlines and all that is because of the high gasto volume of the airport
DeleteWhat’s the secret? PIA is the most expensive airport! How on earth are they securing Wizz bases? I don’t understand it! 😂 they’ve been begging Wizz since 2015… anyway, congrats, Pristina! 🫡
ReplyDeleteIt is not PIA it is PRN, second it is not a base , W6 air doesn't have any base in PRN, it is just launching routes.
DeleteIt will open a base from November/December
DeleteLets first see that happening
DeleteThank you. Now EIN, BVA and CGN
ReplyDeleteNice dreams
DeleteBVA and CGN for sure.
DeleteDon't know about Eindhoven.. because of SKP 😶🌫️
Already looking forward to the 3rd aircraft and new routes 😎
ReplyDeleteWhen GP aviation collapse yes
Deleteby the time GP collapses, it will be Wizz's 5th or 6th 😉
DeleteWe need Maastricht-Aachen!
ReplyDeleteDirect MDE please
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