Wizz Air to AMS from KTW and BUD !

Dude320 · Post by **Dude320** » 28 Jul 2005, 17:38

Wizz Air starts flights to Amsterdam and puts winter schedule on sale
Published:2005. 07. 28.
Wizz Air, the largest low fare - low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced today that it would commence flights on Amsterdam Katowice and Amsterdam-Budapest routes. The flights will start from 1st November and 1st December respectively.

Tickets on these new flights as well as all winter flights are on sale now for as little as EUR 4,99 via wizzair.com or call centre on +48 22 351 94 44.

In the coming winter season Wizz Air will start flights on 9 new routes and increase frequencies on most of the existing routes. The increase of capacity all together represents a 20 % growth compared to the same period last year.

Source : Wizzair.com

Humberside · Post by **Humberside** » 28 Jul 2005, 17:51

Surprised there is no AMS-WAW or is that market already saturated?

Dude320 · Post by **Dude320** » 28 Jul 2005, 18:02

Was Sky Europe not flying from AMS to KRK ??

They also don t or didn t fly to WAW / anymore ?

Strange, so Wzz and Sky will fly from AMS to respectively KTW and KRK ??

Nice , like some competition on the market.

Good to check out the prices

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 28 Jul 2005, 18:40

This news is only in the English version of the site, no mention of it in the Polish version.

It is also not yet possible to actually book the flight or check the schedule. I am very interested whether the departure time from KTW to AMS at such a time that it is possible to travel from WAW by train (or bus) and catch the plane the same day, quite unlike SkyEurope from KRK.

On AMS-WAW there are three daily KLM flights and three daily LOT flights. With LOT you can get a return flight for 216 euro if you book sufficiently in advance, or something like that (it's never entirely clear when you can fly cheap, they don't show a price calendar like KLM does). With KLM I just found a return flight leaving *TOMORROW* for 223 euro (lowest price you can get with them). Prices are including taxes.

The SkyEurope flights on AMS-WAW did not appear to be hugely popular, they reduced the frequency twice before stopping altogether (they stopped some flights from WAW because they had a conflict with the airport). The flights were never full.

I know I don't speak for everybody, but I didn't fly with them because their flights were in the middle of the day. With KLM or LOT I can fly to WAW friday after work, and get back still on time for work on monday. Their flights were in the middle of the day.

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 29 Jul 2005, 15:39

Wonderful, the flights from KTW to AMS leave in the afternoon or the evening, depending on the day, which makes it entirely possible to get from WAW to AMS on the same day.

For AMS-WAW it's better to fly SkyEurope, they leave at 9am or something like that. WizzAir to KTW arrives very late.

Dude320 · Post by **Dude320** » 29 Jul 2005, 17:18

earthman wrote: For AMS-WAW it's better to fly SkyEurope, they leave at 9am or something like that. WizzAir to KTW arrives very late.

Strange, I was looking many times on sky euope's site, but never

could book or even see the timetable from/to WAW - AMS.

I think they cancelled this route, didn t they ??

The_Dutchman · Post by **The_Dutchman** » 29 Jul 2005, 17:38

Dude320 wrote:
earthman wrote: For AMS-WAW it's better to fly SkyEurope, they leave at 9am or something like that. WizzAir to KTW arrives very late.
Strange, I was looking many times on sky euope's site, but never

could book or even see the timetable from/to WAW - AMS.

I think they cancelled this route, didn t they ??

Earthman means, when you want to travel low cost from AMS to WAW, It is better to go through KRK (with Skyeurope)(so still take a train) than through KTW, due to the fact that the flight to katowice arrives at 23:00... which makes it hard to catch a train to Warsaw.

I normally go from cologne with germanwings (tickets including tax starting at 19 euro's... which is way cheaper than both Wizzair and Skyeurope) ), It still takes me 4 hours to go to CGN, but from KRK/KTW to warsaw centrum will take about the same amount of time.

And yes.. they cancelled this route

Dude320 · Post by **Dude320** » 30 Jul 2005, 14:53

I wonder if Wizz is changing strategy ?

Since they will start even flying to AMS, that is not really a secondary airport as before.

Maybe a change of strategy ?

Humberside · Post by **Humberside** » 30 Jul 2005, 18:44

Maybe they have been forced to fly into AMS by a shortage of nearby cheap, no slot contolled airports?

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 01 Aug 2005, 08:50

Perhaps they should really turn Lelystad into a low-cost airport.

Sentike · Post by **Sentike** » 04 Aug 2005, 12:39

Sky once flew from Amsterdam to Warsaw... think they stopped in the beginning of 2005.

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 28 Sep 2005, 20:14

Wonderful, WizzAir axed the AMS-KTW route before even flying a single plane!

Apparently this is the tenth time in their existence that they cancel a route before it even started.