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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

hehe
Wizz opened a lot of new routes and bases in Europe during the plague.

UAE<>India is opening up partly. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal aren't on Abu Dhabi's Green List.

The vaccination including expats in the UAE is quite advanced:

81% have at least one shot. 73% are fully vaccinated

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Re: Wizz Air News and Discussion Thread - 2021

https://www.flydubai.com/en/destination ... n/dushanbe

In the Air Arabia app, Dushanbe is shown, but no destination can be selected so far.

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Re: Wizz Air News and Discussion Thread - 2021

In 9 years Wizz wants to have 500 planes. That is 3.5 times as much as today. They want to reactivate the AOC of Ukraine. And also think about getting AOCs in the Balkan countries, and former Sovjet Republics, which are: Moldova Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan Uzbekistan Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan ...

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Re: Ryanair Group Airlines: Existing Aircraft Repaints?

That is the AOCs operating differently, not the branding. No one disputes the AOCs have different purposes. The branding is the customer-facing aspect and nothing you describes impacts the brand the customer sees. Each airline is effectively just operate Ryanair flights booked on Ryanair, there is ...

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Re: Ryanair Group Airlines: Existing Aircraft Repaints?

I liked a recent MOL interview. "Executives won’t be swanning off to Bali for a two-day conference any time soon, if ever. But smaller businesses are desperate to meet suppliers and customers in person again." "The idea that trains are somehow going to replace flights from Frankfurt t...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

I wrote about one-way prices. Legacy carriers offer return trips for a lower price than booking both trips separately. Still 370€ return is considerably higher than the average return fare of WizzAir. As you don't see more Polish airports connected by WizzAir from Abu Dhabi, that is near my opinion ...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

Polish airports on this list are to me a totally random selection. Why would WizzAir want to fly from WAW having there competition of three other airlines flying to UAE? Why would they pick Krakow, given that KRK is predominantly an inbound tourism airport and that Wizzair already covers UAE from K...

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Re: What is the greatest airport in the world?

BGY Nice how this airport made it to the most-served FR destination in continental Europe. Still the airport is small enough to not have to walk for a long time after the security check. The security check itself is directly at the entrance of BGY. I also like how the airport refinances itself with ...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

I wonder how they are doing on AUH-BEG. I know they are boosting it to 3 from October but FZ is boosting BEG to 9 in the second half of August. Hopefully Wizz is doing as well. 5W flies from BEG from 19€, FZ from 299€. The choice is clear for me :D As 5W is increasing it to 3 weekly, do you find AU...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

They just announced Sarajevo and Tirana from Abu Dhabi. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSKBEGyq3Jl/ Already covered in this thread ;) I doubt Wizz Air will expand East. [...] Wizz Air focusing on the West and Air Arabia on the East, with some overlap in short-haul destinations in the Middle East. Do y...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

Yeah, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi gonna serve SJJ only until Sep 15.
With flight prices >300€ ...

Flydubai from DXB also from >300€.

While Wizz offers both routes already from 30/40€.

Both routes are operated by 5W even though both are also W6 bases.

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

YES! New destinations! The new ones are Tirana and Sarajevo. Sarajevo already served by many Middle East carriers. Tirana was in the Top 3, Sarajevo was 'likely'. Sarajevo was also named by SCQ83. Wizz said they want to grow regarding Abu Dhabi's safe list. This is the current safe list: https://vis...

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Re: Wizz Air News and Discussion Thread - 2021

They won't venture in ISC so much what is meant with ISC? — This is how Wizz gonna grow over the next years: https://images.cdn.centreforaviation.com/stories/2021/Jul/13/1307.3.JPG it shows that Wizz don't expect to get the XLRs before March 2023. Between April 2023 and March 2024 they expect to ge...

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Re: Ryanair Group Airlines: Existing Aircraft Repaints?

eicvd wrote:
Let’s see how brave Wizz Air when they finally announce a flight to the real home of Ryanair

That would be a battle.

It would be also interesting Malta Air flying from Greece, Cyprus, Neaples, Palermo and Malta to Dubai. As Dubai is more appealing than Abu Dhabi.

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Re: New Norwegian low-cost Norse Atlantic Airways announced

ok i adjust the flying times. Still room for FR self-hubbing flights. Flight searches like Google, Skyscanner and kiwi.com will show them as cheapest and people are likely gonna book them. Also for one-way journeys. - 19:00 departure STN to get a lot of feeder flights of the day - 22:00 arrival New ...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

I think Thailand becomes more likely from 2023 on. btw I am also in favor of a Wizz Air Thailand. And I have good arguments for that. But that seems to be to far in the future again. :D Other considerable big groups of expats in the UAE inside the 2250nmi range are people from: Jordan 250,000 Iraq 1...

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Re: Ryanair Group Airlines: Existing Aircraft Repaints?

FR are Europe's most successful airline by most metrics Surely they are number 1 regarding having the most passengers now. Connecting Aqaba, Yerevan, Beirut, Amman, Eilat and Tel Aviv was cool. But what exciting new do they want to do in the future? Statement like the shown here were at least a fun...

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Re: Ryanair Group Airlines: Existing Aircraft Repaints?

I’m surprised Ryanair or Ryanair group does not have a dedicated thread like other airlines, especially during this moment when it is most active airline in Europe. Are Ryanair news so interesting? Ryanair is mostly covered in the news regarding low worker's rights. There is no vision. They don't w...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

Ok. I judge a route if there are many airlines serving it and regarding the minimum prices. And those are HIGH on UAE<>India. Bangladesh is inside the usual range, that Wizz Air flies today already. Philippines is too far, even for the presumed 8 hour flights with the XLR. Yes, I see Iran now as bei...

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Re: Ryanair Group Airlines: Existing Aircraft Repaints?

Ryanair uses Malta Air, so the flight crew can pay their income taxes and social security contributions in their country of residence. And the country of Malta wants more publicity as the country is not very known in Europe. Malta Air planes aren't based only in Malta, but also in mainland Europe. S...

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Re: New Norwegian low-cost Norse Atlantic Airways announced

I found the flying times of Norwegian between Europe and US terrible. It was not possible to do a self-transfer on the same day. Were there so many business people on the Norwegian transatlantic flight who wanted a specific departure or arrival time? Iberia has many connections from Madrid to South ...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

https://www.globalmediainsight.com/blog ... tatistics/

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Re: Wizz Air News and Discussion Thread - 2021

My post in this thread was not about the amount of planes based in AUH. Only about the range of the 5W XLR. But okay, I bet with you that 5W will have 100 based planes in AUH in 15 years :) That is one new based plane every 2 months. In the 5W XLR range around AUH there are 5 billion people. Getting...

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Re: New Norwegian low-cost Norse Atlantic Airways announced

from 100 European destinations you cannot get a £300 return to New York. Ryanair has based over 30 planes in STN. So when arriving 3:00 in STN (22:00 NY time), you have 30 European destinations you can fly to at 6:00am from STN by Ryanair. Coming from NY an arrival at 6am in STN would be also possib...

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Re: Wizz Air News and Discussion Thread - 2021

In an interview the communications director said 8 hours flights with the XLR. https://bbj.hu/business/people/interview/wizz-air-eyes-markets-even-further-afield That equals around 3200nmi. Like the route AUH/DXB-SIN. The flight with a widebody from SIN is around 7:30h. The XLR flies slower than a w...

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Re: New Norwegian low-cost Norse Atlantic Airways announced

For getting feeder flights, Flypop simply flies from Stansted. In STN they get feeded from over 100 Ryanair routes for self-transfer. How about these flying times for Norse Atlantic?: - 02:00 departure STN so they get almost all the Ryanair feeder flights that arrive during the day before. - 05:00 a...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

I wonder if they might launch Ankara at some point. It's a big city, relatively wealthy and from what I understood there is a strong IT industry which usually attracts younger people. Do you mean that the lT industry which attracts young people, leads to more PAX on that route? If yes, could you ex...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

I agree. I mean Doha, Bahrain and Kuwait-City could be also connected short-term. It's an half to one hour flight. Not a high business risk and the fares are currently quite high: UAE->Bahrain from 175€ UAE->Doha from 75€ UAE->Kuwait from 150€ In an interview the Qatar Airways boss said, he will all...

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Re: What is the range in reality of a fully loaded 239seat A321neo?

not every slim seat is the same...

The A321neo has the Airbus Cabin Flex configuration. The kitchen gets smaller. Therefore more space for seats.

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Re: What is the range in reality of a fully loaded 239seat A321neo?

F27500 wrote:
An A321 with 239 seats .. I cant even imagine how miserable that would be .. even for an hour long flight.

Slim seats is the answer. Bringing more legroom. And other developments making it more comfortable.

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Re: What is the range in reality of a fully loaded 239seat A321neo?

according to this qebsite the MTOW of an A321neo is 89.000kg http://wizzva.com/index.php/pages/aircraftinfo So the maximum payload is 23.000kg. According to the EASA a male adult passenger weights 84.6kg, an adult female 66.6kg and a child 30.7kg. So let's say it's 45% males, 45% females and 10% chi...

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Re: What is the range in reality of a fully loaded 239seat A321neo?

If you have a range chart for the aircraft and know your weights, you can use that. Thanks! Does somebody know the payload of 239 passengers with their holiday baggage? :) And which MTOW the Wizz Air A321neo have? I assume they don't have an ACT? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuAe1yLVAAE5nq1?format=j...

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What is the range in reality of a fully loaded 239seat A321neo?

Like what distance would be the longest commercial route an airline would use it? If relevant: - no weight restrictions, so including 100% load factor of the 239seats and a lot of baggage during holiday time - operated around the UAE, so temperatures between -10 and 45°C - including security buffer ...

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Re: IATA codes that are the same FAA LID code of another airport?

thank you!

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Re: 13 hour flight from a 1.500m runway?

ah alright

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Re: IATA codes that are the same FAA LID code of another airport?

For the HND airport kiwi.com shows it correctly. Wiki says "Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA" It should be possible to do all IATA and FAA LID codes into an excel sheet and use the VLOOKUP() function. Is there a way to get a list of all ...

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IATA codes that are the same FAA LID code of another airport?

For example: Hilton Head Island aiport: FAA LID: HXD That's the IATA code for an airport in China Ceiba, Puerto Rico FAA LID: RVR That's the IATA code of Green River in Utah Is it possible to get a list of all airports where this is the case? The background is that this produces bugs on kiwi.com: ht...

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Re: 13 hour flight from a 1.500m runway?

I reported this bug to kiwi.com and now it's fixed. When searching from the US to airports in Eastern and Southeastern Asia, the results are correct: https://www.kiwi.com/us/search/results/united-states/tokyo-japan,osaka-japan,taipei-taiwan,shanghai-china,beijing-china,bangkok-thailand,guangzhou-chi...

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Re: Which realistic routes do you want to see announced?

Tenerife South <> Natal, Brazil by Ryanair ! The distance is less than TFS<>NYO Ponta Delgada <> Providence/Boston/New York/Halifax by Ryanair Also doable on a 6 hour flight with the same flight crew to there and back any Colombian airport <> Puerto Rico by Wingo/Viva/Latam Abu Dhabi <> Ürümqi, Chin...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

Right now G8 charges AED 1060 for a one-way AUH-DEL, EY only charges AED 180. G8 is nearly 6 times as expensive as EY on the same route, they got to learn that those high fares don't get them any sales. They'll just fly empty planes while everybody flies EY. Do you have a link for the 180AED? For G...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

ah there must be a way to achieve it:

- changing the laws. W6 is no newcomer
- buying Jet Airways
- merging with GoFirst or Indigo and renaming it
- overtaking a small regional Indian airline and making an international A321neo airline out of it

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Re: New Wizz Air bases?

I'd like to add Banja Luka and Alexandria.

Yes, a W6 base in Alexandria!

Connecting a lot of European airports and bringing tourists there all year round.

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

From CCU Wizz Air India can fly to Seoul, Philippines, Taiwan and further into Indonesia.

With their normal A321neo and with only one flight crew to there and back.

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

These countries are in the typical Wizz 6 hour range around India. And the minimum (not average) price. So most days it costs more than these stated fares: Indonesia 118€ Vietnam 124€ Azerbajan 136€ Israel 138€ Armenia 142€ China 160€ ( ! ) Cambodia 170€ Laos 180€ Turkey 180€ ( ! ) Russia 183€ ( ! )...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

Wizz also has a 49% share in Abu Dhabi. I see potential in the international air fares from India. To Thailand and the UAE the minimum fare is 80€. Wizz offers 15-30€ as a minimum fare on these distances. Indians are very price sensitive. So around 1 billion Indians are in favor of Wizz Air India ;)...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

back to the topic The CCO says there are some hurdles to the fly to India. So it may not be possible to set up connections to there very soon: https://www.google.com/amp/s/simpleflying.com/wizz-air-india-attractive/amp/ I'm in favor an Indian subsidiary. Internationally from Delhi they could serve d...

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Re: Did you ever miss the onward flight of your self-transfer?

Self-transfer connections are nice. In my stated case the kiwi.com guarantee was around 5€ I remember. But the onward flight of the self-transfer connection was around 15€. So kiwi may would only have participated up to 15€ for a new onward flight ;) In this example I find the kiwi.com guarantee mea...

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New Wizz Air bases?

The new upcoming planes must be placed somewhere. To which new bases do you think? My guesses are: Split Pisa Turin Verona Bologna Prishtina Kaunas Marakesh Casablanca Lublin Bratislava Odesa one in Spain one in Greece Liverpool Birmingham Do you agree or not? To make it easier, these are the existi...

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Re: Did you ever miss the onward flight of your self-transfer?

Some of us book 2 onward flights at the same time when the gap between flights is less than about 2 hours... one being if all goes well... and another one many hours later or the next day (ideally refundable / changeable or at a very cheap price) as a backup. I thought about that. In my case, the t...

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Re: Next destinations from WizzAir from Abu Dhabi?

I found 1-stop flights from Europe to the UAE from 30€ :) https://www.linkpicture.com/q/Polish_20210724_095245366.png When sorting the search results by price, connections with a longer layover are shown on the top. https://www.kiwi.com/ee/search/results/47.86683-5.334297-1000km,northern-europe/abu-...

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