Wizz Air has decided to permanently move back to Warsaw Chopin (the main airport at Waraw), and abandon Warsaw Modlin Airport. Warsaw Modlin Airport - an ex-military field converted for civilian use was opened in June 2012 as an airport low-cost carriers in Poland, but was closed within six months to large aircraft such as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 - which are the … [Read more...]
Wizz Air to continue to take the Wizz and extend its large hand luggage charge
Wizz Air have decided in their wisdom that their trial to charge for large hand baggage items was a success, and now wishes to roll out the programme to the rest of its routes from 24th October 2012. If you're honestly surprised... well... this is Wizz Air. The €10 charge is to "encourage" Wizz Air's passengers to take small bags of up to 42cm x 32cm x 25cm. Anything … [Read more...]
Wizz Air takes the Wizz – to charge for “Large Hand luggage items”
Yes, you read that right. Wizz Air is copying that wonderful customer service lead airline "Spirit Airlines" and going to conduct a trial on the London Luton to Katowice route. If you're carrying a "small" carry on (sized to 42x32x25cm), you'll get it aboard for nothing. Those with larger carry on items will be paying €10 for bags up to 55x40x20cm. Both carry on sizes will … [Read more...]
Wizz Air attempts to fill the Malev sized hole at Budapest
It seems that Wizz Air is racing to try and plug the gaps that have been created by the failure of Malev last Friday morning, with plans to invest money at Budapest, and base two Airbus A320's from March. By some magic means, this will boost a 66% increase of capacity for them. Plans are afoot to launch a three times-weekly service from Budapest-Bucharest. Meanwhile, Wizz … [Read more...]
The Friday News Roundup
It's Friday again, so it must be time for me to look at the news for the week: Ryanair takes its balls away... Ryanair pulls aircraft and services from Manchester - Analysis on here on why O'Liar is talking once again out of his back side. BBC News, GhettoIFE.com Korean Air - Profit! Korean Air posted a net income of 78.5b won ( or about $62.4 million) for Q2/2009 … [Read more...]
News Roundup – Loss, Loss, Loss, Cuts, Losses… Profits? and Orders?
Its Friday, so it's time to do the news British Airways - Bleeding Cash. Oh it's been over the wires last week - BA managed to make a £148m loss this quarter. Not as bad as some of it's competitors, but still pretty bad. Of course, the changes they're making have been well documented in this Blog... Air France/KLM Group - Air France/KLM lost 496m euros … [Read more...]
Paris Air Show Day 5: Pretty Graphs at last
Now that I'm sitting at my desk and for once not cursing CA and their "wonderful" AV products, it's time to get down to the nitty gritty of Paris 2009 - or "The year when 10 Wide Body jet is considered a big order" New orders on day 5 - Olympic Airways join the Dash-8 400 party with an order for 5, option for another 5 So lets put this into graphics. So what are … [Read more...]