Wizz Air cancels Malpensa Abu Dhabi flight: yet another demonstration of how this airline cannot be trusted

9 months later since the low-cost airline had announced the opening of the route And putting the flight up for sale, today less than 30 days after the first link took off Wizz Air has decided to cancel the route.

This course should have marked Wizz Air's A321xlr debut in Italy. We have often talked about this variant of Airbus' famous bestseller precisely because of its ability to fly, nonstop, much further than the versions currently in the fleet to Wizz and many other companies around the world.

MXP AUH flight doesn't sell, Wizz Air cancels route

Due to unforeseen changes in market conditions and operational considerations, we have made the difficult decision to suspend the launch of our new route Milan Malpensa - Abu Dhabi. Although we were excited to offer this service to our customers, careful analysis determined that it would not be sustainable at this time. However, we remain committed to exploring future opportunities in line with customer demand and our strategic goals.

This is the official communication we just received by the company. In this case we are not talking about a failure of planes to arrive, no delays related to late deliveries as happened in other situations.

This is not the first time the carrier has launched a route only to then backtrack absolutely not giving a damn about the passengers who put their trust and paid for their tickets and who now find themselves in the unfortunate situation of no longer having a means of transportation to the UAE capital, but who may have other flights booked to go beyond Abu Dhabi or hotels, excursions, cruises arranged to suit that flight.

A similar thing had happened to me last summer when. Wizz had canceled the long-announced and advertised flight from Fiumicino to Kuwait City.

I had decided to buy a ticket on this route because I wanted to experience aboard this new plane and At the moment my flight is still confirmed. 

I have not received any email from the carrier let alone a refund, in fact as usual. I predict that the company will do the "smart thing" of not refunding the flight but to create a credit for future bookings.

In the night I received two emails from Wizz Air with the. ways to apply for reimbursement

Doing a new search, however, the flight has disappeared from the sales systems, but it was until the past few hours.

Tickets that, as you can see, were not even the cheapest on the market, since Etihad practically had tickets for sale at similar prices, which was also happening in Rome before Wizz Air decided to drop the connection here as well. which for many represented a low-cost way to fly, nonstop, to the Emirates or even to the Maldives always using Wizz Air.

Of course the fill rate of my flight was by no means high, but it is also true that summer is the worst time to go to the Middle East, but I am willing to bet that several Italians may have booked a low-cost itinerary perhaps to reach Asia via Abu Dhabi itself And who will now find themselves with quite a headache.

In conclusion

Bad news for those who were thinking of substituting the flight from Rome for Milan, no dice. No possibility of flying low-cost with this airline to Abu Dhabi from Italy and Yet another cut that penalizes passengers who had bought all you can fly passes Hoping to use it with this course.

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