Wizz Air's Winter starts with a bang: from Italian airports 41 new destinations and three million more seats
For a 'normal' full-service company, such numbers would be impossible. But low-cost airlines have accustomed us to jaw-dropping numbers: in [...]
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For a 'normal' full-service airline, such numbers would be impossible. But low-cost airlines have accustomed us to jaw-dropping numbers: in the early years they were those of really bargain ticket prices, today those of growth in destinations, routes, frequencies, passengers.
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Could you imagine carriers such as ITA or Lufthansa, Air France and British, just to name a few European full-service airlines, adding 41 new routes To their operating in a single season? No. Instead. is exactly what Wizz Air will do during the Winter 2025-2026 that has just begun.
This was announced at a press conference in Milan by the Corporate Communications Manager of the Hungarian low-cost Gabriele Imperial, who also pointed out that in 2025-2026 the carrier will offer 14% more seats from our country's airports than in Winter 2024-2025.
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The 41 new routes will not be the sole preserve of the five bases the carrier has in Italy (Rome Fiumicino, where it has 14 aircraft based, Milan Malpensa where it has eight, Venice where it has three, Catania and Naples where it has two at each of the two southern airports).
Of course, just Venice (where easyjet recently closed its base) Will be the one with the most new connections (for Suceava, Kutaisi, London Luton, Tallinn, Bordeaux, Larnaca, Tel Aviv, and Valencia) followed by Milan Malpensa with five (Brasov, London Luton, Glasgow, Alicante, and Seville) and Rome Fiumicino with four (Bordeaus, Glasgow, London Luton, and Brasov).
But also Bergamo (Sibiu, Suceava, Varna, Chisinau and Warsaw) will see significant growth in Wizz's operations, and a total of thirteen (out of 27 Italian airports served by the low-cost carrier) will enjoy new routes in the Winter that has just begun. It should also be noted that Of the 41 new destinations, eighteen are 'unique' in the sense that Wizz Air flies there without having any competitor on the route.
Europe's third-largest low-cost carrier by number of passengers and aircraft in fleet (254, the 72% of which are Airbus A320 and A321 'neo'), is also on the bottom step of the podium for traffic in our country, where it carried 17.1 million passengers in the first nine months of 2025 On more than 77 thousand flights with a load factor of 91% And in October it had a market share of 9% which puts it behind Ryanair's 37% and easyJet's 12%.
In the Summer that just ended, it operated more than 56,000 flights with a completion rate of 97% (meaning that only three out of every 1,000 flights were canceled) and carried 800,000 more passengers than in Summer 2024 (+7%), with On Time Performance (OTP) arrivals growth of 21%.
Milan Malpensa is the Italian airport on which Wizz Air has grown the most over the past 12 months. SEA's head of Aviation Business, Aldo Shmid, explained that. "over Malpensa Wizz operates to 46 destinations in 23 countries and is the third largest operator (the fourth within the Milan airport system, ed.) with 14% market share behind easyJet and Ryanair and traffic growth over the past 12 months of about 30 percent."
