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Wizz Air orders additional 50 A320 aircraft and 25 options

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Wizz Air announced today that it had signed a contract with Airbus for an additional order of 50 firm A320 aircraft and 25 options increasing its total orders up to 107 aircraft.

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Wizz Air, the largest low fare-low cost airline based in Central and Eastern Europe, announced today that it had signed a contract with Airbus for an additional order of 50 firm A320 aircraft and 25 options increasing its total orders up to 107 aircraft. The new order follows Wizz Air's existing A320 order, addresses its capacity requirements until 2014 and is the largest Airbus fleet order recorded in the CEE region. The firm aircraft deliveries will position Wizz Air to become one of the preeminent airlines in the region over the next decade.

In line with Wizz Air’s existing fleet, the new A320 aircraft come with enhanced cabin features and single-class configuration seating 180 passengers in comfortable leather seats.

The delivery stream of existing and new orders will result in the Wizz Air fleet having an average age of less than 3 years for the next 10 years promoting high operational efficiency and technical reliability, increased passenger comfort, environmental efficiency and one the lowest seat mile cost in the region.

“Wizz Air has demonstrated its ability for sustainable growth in a competitive environment, where low cost leadership is fundamental to market share growth and to remaining competitive. The A320 is a proven contributor to our low cost base and continues to deliver low seat mile costs, high operational reliability and customer satisfaction using an environmentally friendly platform. The new aircraft order will put Wizz Air in the league of the largest fleet operators in the region. By 2016 Wizz Air would operate a fleet of over 100 A320 aircraft.” said József Váradi, Chief Executive Officer of Wizz Air.

"We are very proud to take part in the tremendous growth of Wizz Air in the Central and Eastern Europe region” said Airbus Chief Operating Officer Customers, John Leahy. “The new order strongly underpins Wizz Air's aspirations to expand. The A320 Family is clearly the leading aircraft in its category, and this milestone order really endorses the superiority of our product” he added.

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Wonderful, if they would only take one of those new planes and start flying with it between WAW and AMS, EIN, RTM or at least ENS, in that order of preference. Or LEY, when they finally start operating.

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I think we can expect a base at CRL .

groningen airport needs first a longer runway ....

but 100 planes .... the sky gets more and more growed , time to use all the airports that have place anough but are never used ....

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earthman wrote:Wonderful, if they would only take one of those new planes and start flying with it between WAW and AMS
Earthman, a part of their success seems to be achieved by following some well-known patterns carved by Ryanair. Although they do not share the same fleet type (Airbuses versus Boeings), they do have many other similarities: using many 'Ryanair' airports, similar pricing, the same kind of income sources and so on. If AMS is still too expensive for FR, do you believe Wizz would choose this option?

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eu01 wrote:
earthman wrote:Wonderful, if they would only take one of those new planes and start flying with it between WAW and AMS
Earthman, a part of their success seems to be achieved by following some well-known patterns carved by Ryanair. Although they do not share the same fleet type (Airbuses versus Boeings), they do have many other similarities: using many 'Ryanair' airports, similar pricing, the same kind of income sources and so on. If AMS is still too expensive for FR, do you believe Wizz would choose this option?
They did have at one time plans to fly from AMS to KTW and BUD, but gave up before they even started. They do fly to those airports from EIN. Like I said, my preferred order for flights to/from WAW is AMS, LEY, EIN, RTM, ENS. EIN might be more likely, as they already use that airport.

Regarding Ryanair, I read somewhere that FR is actually considering SNN-AMS, and they also have a base at MAD, so if W6 could make a profit, why wouldn't they fly to AMS?

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flying to Rotterdam might be more interesting. Many Polish work at the harbour or in related industries.

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