Wizz Air has reached the milestone of carrying 65 million passengers from London Luton airport, the place it’s now the most important service with 12 plane parked.
This landmark passenger rely comes as Wizz Air enjoys a bumper summer time season. The airline carried 5.3 million passengers in June, in comparison with 4 million the earlier yr, marking a 23 per cent improve.
Zsuzsa Trubek, company communications supervisor at Wizz Air UK, stated: “It’s an enormous day for Wizz Air as we have fun 65 million passengers at London Luton Airport. What we are able to provide travellers is an thrilling mixture of standard locations, in addition to off-the-beaten-track places to discover.
“The UK is a vital marketplace for us, and London stays a key focus for funding. We want to thank the crew at London Luton Airport for his or her partnership over the previous 19 years and look ahead to what the longer term holds.”
The low-cost-carrier, which is able to have fun its twentieth anniversary subsequent yr, has an extended historical past with the airport having operated its first flight operated from Katowice in Poland to Luton in Could 2004.
In the present day Wizz Air operates round 100 flights per day to 58 routes, with the preferred locations together with Bucharest, Budapest, Warsaw and Tirana, and it’s one in every of Europe’s quickest rising airways.
Final month, the airline introduced that London Luton Airport would turning into an all-A321neo base by 2025.
Jonathan Rayner, chief business officer at London Luton Airport, stated: “The success of Wizz Air at London Luton Airport is testomony to our sturdy partnership. Since that first flight in 2004, each Wizz and LLA have made enormous advances, reaching spectacular development in each passenger numbers and the selection of locations.”
The service has additionally introduced it’s going to launch a brand new route from London Luton to Giza in Cairo beginning on 30 October.
The three-times-weekly service will depart Luton on Monday, Wednesday and Friday to Sphinx Worldwide airport (SPX).
The schedule sees flights departing Luton on Mondays at 1310, arriving in Egypt at 2025. Return companies will depart Cairo at 2140, arriving in Luton at 0110 the following day. On Wednesday and Friday, flights will go away Luton at 1355, arriving in Egypt at 2110, with the return service departing at 2155 and touching down in Luton at 0125 the next morning.
Flights are actually bookable on the airline’s web site and cellular app.