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Wizz Air to open seasonal Burgas, Bulgaria base in 2Q21

Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) will open a new seasonal summer base in Burgas, Bulgaria and will start seven new routes from the coastal city as of June 2021 in a boost to the country’s tourism industry.

The Hungarian low-cost carrier said it would have one A320 aircraft based at Burgas airport from June 10 until September 12.

The aircraft will support the opening of new routes to Dortmund, Tel Aviv Ben Gurion, Kyiv Igor Sikorsky, Liverpool, Poznan, Eindhoven, and Turku, totalling more than 200,000 seats in 2021.

This will help ramp up Bulgaria’s tourism sector by enabling direct connections to the country's popular seaside. Spokesperson Andras Rado said Wizz Air foresees demand across Europe to travel to Bulgaria during the summer holiday season.

Fraport Bulgaria Chief Executive Officer Frank Quante said: “This is a significant development, and we can only wish to retain as many routes as possible all-year-round in Burgas.”

Wizz Air entered the Bulgarian market in 2005 with flights from Sofia...

Wizz Air to open Sarajevo base in 2Q21

Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) is to station an A320 in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, from May 20, 2021, representing the opening of its 41st base as the airline continues to expand its operations despite COVID-19 travel restrictions.

Wizz Air in a statement announced it intends to open nine new routes from Sarajevo, in addition to its existing connection to Budapest. The airline will commence:

• 3x weekly flights to Copenhagen Kastrup, Dortmund, and Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg, CH;
• 2x weekly rotations to Brussels Charleroi, Memmingen, London Luton, Paris Beauvais, Eindhoven, and Gothenburg Landvetter.

All of the new routes are currently unserved from Sarajevo and will significantly improve the city's connectivity. In total, Wizz Air will add 250,000 more seats to Sarajevo this year, the airline said.

Sarajevo Airport will be Wizz Air’s second base in Bosnia and Herzegovina after launching flights from Tuzla Int'l in 2013.

The expansion follows a tender launched by Sarajevo Airport last year to incentivise carriers...