Wizz Air celebrates 16 million passengers in Italy in 2022 and invites designers to design the new sustainable livery of an A321neo

 Wizz Air has Announced operating results for 2022 in Italy, confirming its position as the third largest airline in the market. The European carrier also launched a design competition, encouraging talent from around the world to creating the livery of sustainability for one of its aircraft Airbus A321neo. The winner will receive 2,000 euros in WIZZ vouchers. 

The 2022 numbers

In 2022 Wizz Air Welcomed more than 16 million passengers to Italy, with the most popular routes from Milan Malpensa to London Gatwick, Catania to Prague, and Rome Fiumicino to Tel Aviv. This is three times the number of customers who booked Wizz Air tickets before the pandemic in 2019. In total, over 45 million passengers have booked tickets with Wizz Air in 2022, twice as much as in 2021 (27.1 million passengers) And the 10% more than in 2019 (41 million passengers).

The airline has 5 bases in Italy with over 900 crew members, which operate with 21 aircraft to 92 destinations. Wizz Air's network to, from and within Italy grew by 91% in 2022, bringing more than 4.5 million additional seats for sale to the market. In addition, The allocation of three aircraft to Rome Fiumicino and Milan Malpensa allows Wizz Air to introduce Nine new routes from Italy And to increase frequencies on 12 more routes in summer 2023. Passengers will now be able to fly from Rome to Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Memmingen (Germany), Castellon (Spain), Luxembourg, Baku (Azerbaijan), Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Kuwait City (Kuwait), and from Milan to Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) and Madrid (Spain).

Tamara Nikiforova, Corporate Communications Manager, Wizz Air Group, stated: "We are proud to continue our expansion in Italy, which has accelerated recently and has proven to be a strategic success. To support demand, we have allocated more aircraft to Italian bases and hired more staff throughout 2022. As a result, passenger traffic in Italy has tripled from pre-pandemic figures. We remain committed to the market, currently offering our Italian customers affordable travel opportunities on a total of 252 routes to 39 countries and growing further in 2023."

The new sustainable livery for the A321neo

To raise awareness of its sustainability efforts and to emphasize its commitment to further reducing the intensity of CO₂ Of 25% by 2030, in addition,  Wizz Air invites creative talent to design new livery for one of its Airbus A321neo aircraft.

The competition starts at 10:00 CET on January 20, 2023 and will close at 23:59 CET on February 12, 2023. All interested parties should email their design to [email protected], adhering to the terms and conditions and guidelines of the competition. The selected design may be used in whole or in part to create the livery of the final sustainability.

The key element of Wizz Air's sustainability strategy is fleet renewal, as with theThe new A321neo.

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