Wizz Air announces 14 new Gatwick routes to compete with BA Euroflyer – but what’s it like?

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• WaynedP says:

  5 Jan5 January 08:08

  Interesting, thanks.

  Still no direct flights scheduled between London and Genoa, HQ of our preferred cruise line MSC.

  Seems I’ll be consulting seat61 for options from Genoa to Milan, Florence, Bologna or Nice later this year to avoid FR and STN.

  • Chris L says:

    5 Jan5 January 09:38

    Best bet is probably fly to LIN, quick taxi to Milano Centrale station, then one of the fast IC (‘Intercity’) or even faster Frecciabianca trains to Genoa is about 1h 30m. Trains are roughly hourly. Have a look at the Trenitalia website (you can set it to English).

    • Chris L says:

      5 Jan5 January 09:50

      Or actually, if the timings work, you can get trains from Milano Rogoredo station which is closer to Linate.

      • WaynedP says:

        5 Jan5 January 11:46

        Thanks ChrisL. I’ll look forward to the adventure-like feel of investigating all the options closer to the time. Hopefully Covid disruption currently being reported will be a thing of the past by then too. Fingers crossed.

    • yorkieflyer says:

      5 Jan5 January 11:15

      FR starting Genoa from MAN, Ryanair are fine, Manchester airport less so……….

      • WaynedP says:

        5 Jan5 January 11:54

        Thanks yf. While I acknowledge that FR meets some type of travellers’ needs perfectly adequately, I am no longer in that demographic, and will do all I can on principle to avoid endorsing what I consider to be o’Leary’s lack of ethics.

        • Erico1875 says:

          5 Jan5 January 12:51

          You are just hurting yourself though. Planes,trains and buses to do what Ryanair can do direct.

        • yorkieflyer says:

          5 Jan5 January 14:58

          all sorts of folk fly Ryanair these days according to my butler

        • WaynedP says:

          5 Jan5 January 20:30

          @yf, greetings to your butler, 😆 but it’s not a class thing rather a demographic: young, no children, cash-strapped but adventurous enough to be willing to travel hand baggage only and wait for an hour for a cheap coach to travel from airport to city centre. I know some great people who fit the bill and I can’t fault their choice to stick with FR, but just not me.

          @Erico, currently the pain is blissfully bearable, thanks.

• Chris says:

  5 Jan5 January 08:22

  Not been any Gdańsk flights for a while, the Wizz app offers 23 routes from Gatwick.

  • Maja S says:

    5 Jan5 January 09:29

    I have seen news about Wizzair axing a lot of Gatwick routes including Gdansk. Have you got any news on that?

  • Michael Jennings says:

    5 Jan5 January 10:28

    Yeah, they have dropped Gdansk. Which is a shame, as I fly there a couple of times a year and Gatwick is my preferred airport.

• LewisB says:

  5 Jan5 January 08:35

  WizzAir finally launching in Cardiff in April

• sam says:

  5 Jan5 January 09:09

  overnight short haul flights to mykonos!!

  • Richie says:

    5 Jan5 January 10:14

    ….and Chania.

  • Lady London says:

    5 Jan5 January 13:46

    Yes, the very interesting fact about Gatwick for airlines is that it has no curfews. So they can fly 24hrs round the clock.

    Which might make the same kind of economics as the old holiday tour operators used to have the advantage of by having arrival and departure of loaded flights in high season around the clock. Thus making much better use of the fixed costs of running an aircraft at those particular times of the year.

• marcw says:

  5 Jan5 January 09:14

  Wizzair is like all other ULCC. If you stick to the rules, fantastic. If you attempt to bend the rules, expect not to succeed.

  • Alex Sm says:

    5 Jan5 January 10:15

    It’s a rule of thumb for life in general, is it not?

    • Alex M says:

      5 Jan5 January 10:34

      Stick to the rules to succeed in life?! Lol

  • yorkieflyer says:

    5 Jan5 January 11:22

    FR are on a role re being nice to the self loading cargo ever since the boss discovered being nice to pax paid off, in my view.
    At Alicante on Monday waiting for our late(as ever) Easyjet flight and at the next gate a Ryanair flight was closing, only latecomers arriving when a family turned up with mid size suitcases at the gate, outbound ex UK checked baggage tags still attached, I’m guessing they were too late for baggage check in.
    So opened the virtual popcorn to watch proceedings……
    After a phone call they were boarded with bags tagged for gate check of hold luggage without any further payment.

    • Lady London says:

      5 Jan5 January 13:53

      Yes at the airport I fly from most there are 2 identical flights leaving within 10 mins of each other 1 Ryanair 1 Easyjet in the evening.

      It feels like all the time the Easyjet flight runs almost exactly 1 hour later than scheduled. I’ve reached the conclusion that Easyjet has in fact always rostered it so its true departure time will be 1 hour later. Just they know perfectly well no one would book that flight if they sold it at its true departure time as it lands after all reasonable options for public transport from Gatwick have stopped for the night.

    • marcw says:

      5 Jan5 January 14:03

      If you are above hand luggage limits, it’s always wise to board just before boarding closes. Staff is unlikely to raise issues as they just want to close the flight.

• AK says:

  5 Jan5 January 09:22

  Wizzair operates from Gatwick for much longer than October 2020. Routes like Gdansk have been suspended during the pandemic and no return of Gdansk to Gatwick in sight.

  • Rob says:

    5 Jan5 January 09:58

    True. Wizz flew in from somewhere else – it was October when they set up a UK base at Gatwick.

    • Heathrow Flyer says:

      5 Jan5 January 16:10

      The Bucharest route has been at LGW for a few years.

• Bagoly says:

  5 Jan5 January 09:35

  On the A321 their seatmaps are accurate – seats aroudn the emergency exist do vary – they are some with nothing in the row in front, and there is some variation between left and right sides.

• John T says:

  5 Jan5 January 09:44

  I prefer Wizz to Ryanair because unlike Ryanair, I don’t find Wizz staff to be actively unpleasant.

  • yorkieflyer says:

    5 Jan5 January 11:28

    I take people as I find them, treat folk with courtesy and its usually reciprocated, with noticeable exceptions, looking at you Manchester airport! Most customer facing staff, especially in travel, have had a very rough time of it these past two years. FR staff are in the main perfectly pleasant in my opinion.

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