Wizz Air has announced that it is about to launch three new regular routes from the Wojciech Korfanty International Airport of Katowice this summer.
Flights to Ibiza will be launched on Wednesday the 15th of June. There will be a flight to this popular Spanish city once a week, on Wednesdays.
From the following day – the 16th of June – Wizz Air will fly for the first time from Katowice to Tirana. Flights to the Albanian capital are scheduled for Thursdays and Sundays until the 4th of July. From then on, the route Wizz Air planes will fly this route on Mondays and Fridays.
Travellers will have the opportunity to fly from Silesia’s largest city to Madeira from the 18th of June. The air carrier plans flights to the Portuguese city on Tuesdays and Saturdays. As Travel Daily News (TDN) notes, it will be the only Wizz Air route connecting a Polish airport with Madeira.
„After two difficult years, during which the coronavirus pandemic negatively affected the aviation industry, Wizz Air is once again developing its network at Katowice Airport. Katowice Airport has considerable potential when it comes to outbound traffic; passengers eagerly travel on regular flights to warm places in the south and west of Europe. […] It’s why I’m certain that Wizz Air’s new routes from Katowice Airport will be commercially successful,” the President of the Board of the Upper Silesian Aviation Group (GTL SA) Artur Tomasik told TDN.
As the leading airline at Katowice Airport when it comes to the number of regular routes available for summer 2022, Wizz Air will handle 37 routes to 19 countries.
The list includes Albania (Tirana), Bulgaria (Burgas), Croatia (Split), Cyprus (Larnaca), Georgia (Kutaisi), Germany (Dortmund, Cologne-Bonn), Greece (Athens, Corfu), Iceland (Reykjavik), Israel (Tel Aviv), Italy (Alghero, Catania, Milan-Bergamo, Naples, Rome-Fiumicino), Malta, Montenegro (Podgorica), the Netherlands (Eindhoven), Norway (Bergen, Stavanger, Oslo-Torp), Portugal (Madeira), Spain (Barcelona, Castellon, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Palma De Mallorca, Malaga, Tenerife), Sweden (Malmo, Stockholm Skavsta), the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) and the UK (Bristol, Doncaster-Sheffield, Liverpool, London-Luton).
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Author: Sébastien Meuwissen