Wizz Air to launch new Belgrade, Tuzla and Skopje flights

Low cost carrier Wizz Air will introduce a new service from Belgrade, Tuzla and Skopje to Salzbiurg in Austria starting from July 2 and July 3. Flights will run twice per week from each city with the Airbus A320 aircraft. The development comes just a day after the budget airline announced it would launch flights from Milan to Pristina in July. Wizz Air has said it will look for new opportunities in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic and deploy capacity where it sees opportunities. The airline will have no direct competition on either of the three routes, although Air Serbia maintains operations between Niš and Salzburg.

Route	Launch date
Belgrade - Salzburg	July 2
Tuzla - Salzburg	July 2
Skopje - Salzburg	July 3

Commenting on the carrier's operations, Wizz Air CEO, Jozsef Varadi, said, "We are aware that there will be a short-term dent in demand resulting from the coronavirus, and are trimming some of our capacity because of that, but we are not closing a single operating base and we are not closing a single route. We are just reducing the frequencies of certain routes. We are also continuing to take on deliveries of new aircraft and between now and June 2021, we will be taking on 22 new deliveries, substantially growing our fleet and capacity, and that's why we are launching new activities, new routes, and possibly new bases".

Wizz Air sees demand and customer confidence slowly returning. "Right now we are flying at about 10% of our total capacity. We are sensing demand for our service in many ways in our system and also from talking to various parties who understand customer behavior, and look at the way people are searching for holidays, travel opportunities and the like. We think people want to travel, people want to fly again", Mr Varadi said. He added, "The problem, by and large, is not people’s intention to travel, but rather the restrictions put in place by governments, which makes things quite unpredictable. During good times, with no state restrictions, we operate in 45 countries. There are currently no two countries of those 45 that have imposed the same restrictions. The whole process has become totally uncoordinated, it's quite a mess and it makes it very hard for people to look past these issues, of how they can leave their country, how they can get into another country, and how their movements will be restricted".