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Low-cost carrier Wizz Air plans to increase the number of seats on offer on its Polish connections this summer by over 50 percent compared to last year, Jozsef Varadi, the airline’s president told PAP.
Varadi added that the Hungary-based carrier will also increase the number of aircraft based in Poland from 20 to 27.
“Poland is a strategic market for us and we pay a lot of attention to it. We are here to be a leader, to continue to develop and grow, ” Varadi said in an interview with PAP on Friday.
“This summer season we intend to significantly increase the number of aircraft based in Poland, the number of seats offered, and propose new routes,” Varadi said.
According to him, 20 planes are currently based at five Polish Wizz Air bases, in Kraków, Warsaw, Katowice, Gdańsk and Wrocław, and by the summer this number will increase to 27.
One of the new aircraft, he said, would be based at Kraków, the carrier’s operating base since May 2019. As a result, the number of planes stationed there will increase to four.
Earlier this month, Wizz Air launched a new connection from Kraków to Dubai. It is, Varadi stressed, a harbinger of a number of new products for the summer season, which will be listed in the carrier’s reservation system.
The airline is making the move in expectation of a relaxation of Covid rules.
“I think Covid restrictions across Europe will be lifted quickly,” said Varadi….