Wizz Air announces 14 new Gatwick routes to compete with BA Euroflyer – but what’s it like?
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Over the Christmas break, Wizz Air announced plans for a substantial expansion at London Gatwick airport in Summer 2022.
This expansion is driven by the acquisition of 15 daily slot pairs from Norwegian Air Shuttle.
The additional slots will allow Wizz Air to base an additional four A321neo aircraft at Gatwick next Summer, giving it a total of five Gatwick-based aircraft. Gatwick will also be served by Wizz Air aircraft flying in from other bases.
Where will Wizz Air fly?
Wizz Air has announced the following new routes at London Gatwick. Flights will start in March 2022 although the exact date varies by route:
- Bari
- Catania
- Chania
- Faro
- Funchal
- Larnaca
- Milan
- Mykonos
- Naples
- Palma
- Podgorica (Montenegro)
- Rome
- Tel Aviv
- Vienna
Most of the existing Wizz Air routes from Gatwick:
- Athens
- Bucharest
- Budapest
- Fuerteventura
- Gdansk
- Krakow
- Lanzarote
- Malaga
- Malta
- Sofia
- Tenerife
…. will also continue. The airline talks of having 22 routes next Summer and, as you can see, there are 25 listed above. It looks like three of the existing routes will be dropped.
Where is the new BA Euroflyer airline flying from Gatwick?
As we covered here, the first batch of BA Euroflyer routes are now on sale for Summer 2022.
Here are the 35 routes together with the launch date. As you will see, there is overlap with Wizz Air:
- Alicante – 1st April
- Antalya – 2nd April
- Amsterdam – 29th March
- Athens – 4th May
- Bari – 3rd April
- Berlin – 8th April
- Bordeaux – 15th April
- Cagliari – 17th April
- Catania – 31st March
- Dalaman – 23rd April
- Dubrovnik – 4th April
- Faro – 30th March
- Heraklion – 24th April
- Ibiza – 5th April
- Kos – 24th April
- Lanzarote – 30th March
- Larnaca – 29th March
- Las Palmas – 2nd April
- Madrid – 14th April
- Mahon – 11th April
- Malaga – 31st March
- Malta – 30th March
- Marrakech – 31st March
- Milan – 15th April
- Nice – 31st March
- Palma – 7th April
- Paphos – 29th March
- Rhodes – 28th April
- Santorini – 15th April
- Seville – 29th March
- Tenerife – 29th March
- Thessaloniki – 14th April
- Turin – 4th April
- Venice – 8th April
- Verona – 29th March
What is Wizz Air like?
Wizz Air launched flights from London Gatwick in October 2020. Since this was at the height on the pandemic, it is very likely that the airline has not been on the radar of our London based readers (or at least those who are unwilling to travel to Luton, where Wizz Air is now the largest airline).
As you read this, however, Rhys will be somewhere in Europe, having flown down on a £1.79 (NOT a typo) flight from London Luton yesterday.
What do you get for £1.79? You’ll find out next week on HfP.
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