Wizz Air announces a new base in the UK, at Doncaster Sheffield International Airport. It will be the second base for Wizz Air UK, the UK-registered airline. The first Wizz Air base in the UK was opened in London Luton.
The airline will allocate an Airbus A320 aircraft and will open 7 new routes from Doncaster Sheffield, which will join the 10 existing routes.
Wizz Air base at Doncaster Sheffield
Wizz Air's first flight from Doncaster Sheffield Airport took off 14 years ago and since then WIZZ has become the airport's largest carrier, with over 1 million passengers each year.
With the creation of a new base at Doncaster Sheffield Airport, Wizz Air will launch new connections to destinations such as: Alicante, Malaga, Larnaca in Cyprus, Faro in Portugal, Lublin in Poland, Kosice in Slovakia and Suceava. Tickets are already available on wizzair.com or in the WIZZ mobile app, with rates starting at just £ 17,99 / segment.
| Ruth | Operating days | Starting from | Rates from the ** |
| Doncaster Sheffield - Alicante | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday | October 22 2020 | £21.99 |
| Doncaster Sheffield - Malaga | Monday Friday | October 23 2020 | £21.99 |
| Doncaster Sheffield - Larnaca | Wednesday, Sunday | October 25 2020 | £26.99 |
| Doncaster Sheffield - Lublin | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday | October 22 2020 | £17.99 |
| Doncaster Sheffield - Kosice | Monday Friday | October 23 2020 | £17.99 |
| Doncaster Sheffield - Faro | Monday Friday | October 23 2020 | £21.99 |
| Doncaster Sheffield - Suceava | Wednesday, Sunday | October 25 2020 | £21.99 |
With the creation of a new Wizz Air UK base at Doncaster Sheffield, Wizz Air will increase the annual capacity of Doncaster Sheffield Airport by 150.000 seats, providing local passengers with more accessible and exciting travel opportunities. Wizz Air will create over 36 direct jobs and over 110 indirect jobs in the Doncaster area.
With the allocation of this aircraft, Wizz Air now has 11 permanently based aircraft in the UK, and the addition of these new routes from Doncaster Sheffield makes WIZZ have almost 1,8 million seats for sale on its 107 routes in the UK. for the rest of 2020.
Wizz Air expansion at European level in 2020
In addition to this base, Wizz Air also announced bases at Bacau, Dortmund, Lviv, Larnaca, Milan-Malpensa, Tirana, St. Petersburg. At the same time, from April 2020 until now, Wizz Air has launched over 200 new routes.
Among the new Wizz Air routes, we mention the ones in Romania: Bucharest - Salzburg, from July 2; Bucharest - Abu Dhabi, from July 1; Bucharest - Lyon, from June 20; Bucharest - Prague, from July 20; Bucharest - St. Petersburg, from July 20; Bucharest - Seville, from July 21; Bucharest - Vienna, from July 15; Bucharest - Heraklion, from July 16; Cluj - Abu Dhabi, from September 16; Constanța - Vienna, from July 3; Iasi - Bari, from August 2; Iasi - Verona, from August 3; Iasi - Turin, from August 3; Iasi - Barcelona, from August 1; Suceava - Vienna, from July 20; Suceava - Larnaca, from July 10.