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Low cost carrier Wizz Air will commence a new three weekly service between Milan Malpensa Airport and Pristina starting July 18, each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The budget carrier will base five aircraft in Italy’s second largest city and launch twenty new routes. Milan becomes Wizz Air’s seventh route from Pristina. Further flight details can be found here.
Even in times like this? Amazing, congrats PRN
ReplyDeleteAnd new base in LCA from July 2020. Brave
ReplyDeletethey give good incentives
DeleteAno 16:28 what incentives do they give?
DeleteFinally a good new ! Will there be an impact on SKP-MXP route or not ?
ReplyDeleteWizz already flies from SKP and TGD to MXP and in the next month they will also start from TIA (to BGY) and PRN. Will definitely be interesting to see
Deleteyes there will be impact like all the other routes had impact = none
Deletecongrats for thinking Wizz will canibalize its own existing routes
France-Szerbia is right. The SKP-MXP route might be affected or hurt as there was no flight from PRN.
DeleteIt seems that all the airports in the region are connected to Milan's airports MXP and BGY. I think it's time for a connection to Milan's 3rd airport: LIN.
and why would Wizz hurt their own route to SKP? #questionsthatbotherme
DeleteThe same way extra flights to LJU affect zag? In aviation there is a term called overlapping catchment area. #aviation101
Deletewe see the same question popping up with every new route launched from PRN or even INI (but never for OHD funny enough). wondering why.
Deletepeople on this blog seem to overestimate the amount of people from neighbouring countries using SKP airport. yes of course there are but not of a crucial amount
another thing AirPristina offers charters to Milan as they do to Verona among other charter companies. They are the first to be "impacted" by this if at all
The only reason OHD grew so much in 2019 is because Wizz has not been growing in Albania. That changed recently so let's see what happens of that little airport. So far they only had one great year.
DeleteLOL hop on any flight from SKP and check the number of kosovars #youwillknowwhatimean
DeleteIt was reported on here that CEO of PRN said that about half of passengers at SKP are from PRN area. He is in the business so I doubt he would be making this up.
DeleteAnon 19:06
DeleteNow the story that was told about SKP is switching to OHD.Let's see this, let's see that...PRN/TIA (even INI) will overtake their passengers and lots of other blah blah!
Relax... Wizz is only starting to grow in TIA and PRN, still too early to determine.
DeleteAlbanians are essential for Macedonian airports
Needless to mention that PRN is doing widebody A340, BA LGW and has its pluses when it comes to connectivity. PRN does not entirely rely on 1 airline and enjoying legacy plus LCC mix.
DeleteI think only SKP and TZL have such reliance on one carrier. Not good.
DeleteSkopje and ohrid will be affected from the Milan routes
DeleteWow! They are aggressively expanding in MXP and LCA �� and aggressively entering Greece and Spain! Exotic airports such as beautiful Menorca and Santorini.
ReplyDeletePRN is the only ex-Yu connection. Sad fact is that W6 is really skipping the region.
I hope they finally launch ZAG!!!
ReplyDeleteGive up hoping. It won't happen, especially now.
DeleteWhat do you mean by especially now?
Deletewas the 20% workforce cut just a hoax??
ReplyDeletethe familia reisebüro charters to Verona will not be amused with this
ReplyDeleteWhy not MXP-SJJ?
ReplyDeletefor me the biggest news is that they are flying to SALZBURG (from Larnaca) , first route ever .... a gastarbeiter hotspot , interesting for future tenders ;)
ReplyDeleteTourists of course
Deletethere are so many yugos around Salzburg. Cheap flights from SZG will attract every gasto south of Munich. Wizz could easily start BEG,SKP,PRN ..
DeleteLet's not forget JU is making a killing on INI-SZG
DeleteIs INI-SZG that popular? Seems like the new BEG-FKB!
Deletethere are no numbers publicily available for INI-SZG so please refrain from words like "killing it" (we know how the german numbers look like and they are far from it)
DeleteSZG seamed like a logic destination for long time for the eastern parts of Ex-Yu if it wasnt for the expensive airport
From what I know only STR is a bit weaker, the rest are ok. Lufthansa added some 60.000 passengers on BEG-MUC in 2019 so I would consider that a success.
DeleteAs for INI-SZG, we might not have the numbers but we have this:
https://www.exyuaviation.com/2019/08/salzburg-airport-surprised-by-nis-demand.html
So SZG is the logical choice for eastern ex yu but you doubt their success in ini? ok, odd
Deletea logical destination doesnt mean automatically a success. look at ZRH-INI
DeleteZRH-INI performed just fine until JU launched their subsidized flights to that German village right on the border. It's not like the route failed in a Star Alliance hub with minimal competition.
DeleteI would be very surprised if ZRH failed because of launching FDH. We have seen a LF of less then 30% in some months. Then more probably because of Basel and Wizz or just the yields were not right
DeleteWell, LX was pretty full to INI and the A320 was a regular visitor especially in summer. They operated for years until JU launched FDH. I'm just putting two and two together. ;)
Deleteany numbers to share?
DeleteWhat numbers are you talking about?
DeleteHappy to hear good news for PRN. WizzAir as usual sees an opportunity and seizes it. Total domination not only in the Eastern but central Europe as well!
ReplyDeleteWizz air uvodi nove linije a u Tuzli iste se vrte godinama,samo se mjenjaju kad je ZIMSKI i LJETNI raspored ljetenja...
ReplyDeleteBilo bi dobro za razvoj i prosirenje,treba necim privuc putnike...
There is a saying in Serbia: колико пара, толико музике.
DeleteThe moment Tuzla pays them more money they will add flights.
Wizz knows where the money is. Lastly they banged on it by launching Vienna-Prn, now this!
ReplyDeleteIt feels that June will get in motion all exYu Airpirts at last. This is excellent!
Oh yes, Mon Ami omnip. varadi is a clever person. He is Eastern European and knows very well what is what and when is when. The influence of Wizzair today has reached to a point of operating SKP-BTS or TSR-MAD. This is how it is today....
Deletewhat are you rambling about Mr
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