NEWS FLASH
Wizz Air launched its "All You Can Fly" plan, allowing travellers to fly all of the airline's routes for a flat annual fee of 499 euros, and a fee of 9.99 euros per flight. The fee will rise to 599 euros following the introductory period, which ends August 16. After the first flight, members pay 9.99 euro for each segment. Although tickets must be booked at least three days prior to departure. The membership price does not include checked baggage, and flights cannot be modified. The airline is offering a total of 10.000 memberships. Bookings will be available from September 2024. The plan can be acquired here.
Anyone who falls for this con deserves all the losses that they will make. Wizz has it in their terms and conditions that it restricts availability that you can use this for, so I imagine they will only let you use this subscription if the price for the flight you are booking was going to be low anyway.
ReplyDeleteI also think its a scam to pocket the money. This is basicly false advertise. I recently book door to door transfer through Wizzair app check in process. I received an email to confirm my address. When I tried to book the transfer, I received an error message. I contacted costumer service and they told me this service is only available 48 hours before your departure. So, why would they
Deleteaccept this request less than 24 hours in advance? They need to fix this glitch or algorithm ASAP. This certainly can't be legal, right? I mean it was only £14.50 but it's my money and you can't make rules as you go along. I don't think I was the only one that has fallen for hidden Wizzair trap. Imagine, with +100 passengers they'll pocket+ £1,450 for no services provided It's a clear rip off. I think I will report them to Rip off Britain.
If you take two flights per month you would pay average 35 eur per flight after the intro period. Not so amazing.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the fact that you're having to pay up to a year in advance. Imaging receiving all that cash at 0% AER interest rate in advance. That's potentially 5-6M EUR interest free money in advance of any bookings. Ooooh, yuuuumy!
DeleteIf you flu from BUD to Madeira once, Iceland twice and Canary islands twice, thats 800 to 1000 eur at least. In article there is a mistake, as you are allowed to book a flight maximum 3 days prior flight and not minimum 3 days before.
DeleteBudapest - Madeira is selling for 60 euros for next week Tuesday. That's less than five days away. I don't know what you're talking about.
Deletewhy would you go on Madeira now? lol you go there when in EU is cold season, autum or winter. When I looked in March or April, prices were 200-220 at least return ticket.
DeleteFor Iceland during summer, return ticket goes up to 300-350. and so on..
Assuming you'd pay 50 bucks per flight on average, you'd need to pay 10-12 times per year (so 5-6 round trips) to break even
ReplyDeleteThat's a very high average for Wizz Air. I flew Luton-Ljubljana for £11.50 and Malpensa-Gatwick for 9.99 euros. I would never pay 50 euros to fly Wizz Air.
DeleteWell from BEG is hard to find those fares, maybe only in dead season. Lowest average fares for return trip are around 40-50€
Delete40 euros return is 20 euros one way. That's basically it.
DeleteNone of my W6 flights until now ( i have flown with them over 40 times ) costed me over 50 euros. SKP-MMX was 10 euros, CPH-SKP 15 euros, SKP-HAM 20 euros, WAW-CPH 11 euros, SKP-BLQ 25 euros to name a few. Always but always book at least 6-4 weeks in advance, the prices will surely be cheap. My round-trip flight to Sweden&Denmark costed me 25 euros in high winter-season, 29.12-02.01.
DeleteI booked Luton Gatwick for £9 in mid september. I added a bag and it came to £55 which is still fine
DeletePeople who say that the average Wizzair flight is less than 50 euros just aren't frequent flyers. This is aimed at Gastos who travel a lot, as I am one. I do like 5 roundtrips of Berlin - Skopje per year, the average ticket is like 50 euros one way (without the discount club). Currently, it's higher, prices on this route never go down below 90 euros return (30 Skopje - Berlin and 60 Berlin - Skopje).
DeleteI do agree that it's not such a good deal, though.
Is there a downside?
ReplyDeleteI travel to Estonia from Luton every 2 weeks, tickets have been £200/£180/320 and then into September drop to around £65
It appears to be a good offer but I’m struggling to get much from their terms and conditions
You will most probably not be able to book the "£200/£180/320" flights using this plan.
DeleteMy guess would be that you will be able to book the 19.99 EUR flights for 9.99 EUR. Anything beyond 19.99 per leg will appear as "unavailable." So, you'll need 25 return flights within a year to make the plan cover its costs. Anything beyond that is a saving... but you're stuck to the Wizz Air network, and you will make decision based on this network, not on your personal preferances.
Some people could conceivably make it work, if you have a second home or if you travel for work to the same location 3-4 times a month. But the rest of us (99.99% of the passengers) would be wise to wait and see.
@Visit Kosovo: You are just guessing. Read the terms carefully. If they say all flight, and later won't let you book, you can sue them.
Delete@15:05 Shame on you for criticising someone who is writing facts.
DeleteWhat fact 16:38?
DeletePlease enlight us. And I am not guy from 15:05.
Utter nonsence is to claim wizz will forbid you to travel all flights on whole wizz network.
Most of you think only on balkan side of story where ypu have options to fly up to dozen routes. If you look on Bud or Vie, you see few dozens of opportunities.
This looks like perfect option for IT nomads. Go one week here one week there
I went through the t&c, it does not look good. They do not guarantee anything, but payment its non refundable. Everything its subject to a hidden formula ….
Delete6.1 The number of Wizz All You Can Fly members are limited on a country specific basis, meaning that Wiz Air may determine an overall number of Wizz All You Can Fly members based on the airport of preference You provide to Wizz Air during the registration. Italian domestic routes (ie. flights between two Italian airports) are not available with Wizz All You Can Fly.
6.2 Wizz Air does not guarantee that You will be eligible to book flights via the Wizz All You Can Fly, because the provision of flight tickets depends on a number of internal and external factors These factors include, but not limited to the
a) number of total registered members of Wizz All You Can Fly,
b) number of overall passengers with booking to the given flight, and the
c) seat capacity of the given flight.
It's really bad. The company is getting really shady.
DeleteThe only good thing in it is that most probably they won't change the schedule of your flights within three days. Most probably.
ReplyDeleteOne important thing that is not clear and I think is wrongly interpreted - From the way it's written on their website, it looks like It's not that flight must be booked at least 3 days prior to departure, but you have specific 3 days WITHIN which you have to book. On their website they mention "3-day (72 hours) booking window".
ReplyDeleteYou can also see the difference when you compare this offer to Wizz MultiPass offers for specific countries. For those offers they say "Book at least 5 day in advance", but for this All you can fly offer they say "Book and fly IN THE NEXT 3 days".
I'm not sure if this means that if you want 9.99 price, you can book only flights that are in the next 72 hours from the moment of booking or they announce 9.99 prices occasionally (once a month?) and you have 72 hours from the moment of announcement or if there is some other type of 3-day-window concept, but either way, when you say 3 day WINDOW that usually means that thing has to happen WITHIN those 3 days, and not BEFORE those 3 days.
This offer is not for everyone, but there are many types of frequent flyers that could benefit. Those that are frequent flyers, that fly at least one roundtrip per month but also those that fly on more expensive flights. Abu Dhabi, Maldives and even Iceland and Portugal, Spain for Serbian travelers. But if there is some kind of 3-day limit, that could actually become the biggest obstacle. That's why it needs to be cleared up how that 3-day-window works exactly
DeleteWizz All You Can Fly – Terms and Conditions
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5. BENEFITS
5.1. With the registration to Wizz All You Can Fly You can book one-way flights that are available
in the itinerary of the Website or App within the Eligible Period if the booking is made within
calendar 3 days (72 hours) before departure. You can book a maximum of 3 one-way flights
for 1 day (24 hour).
As I understand it, tickets can only be purchased 3 calendar days before the flight. This means that you can only buy tickets in periods when the flights are not full, you cannot plan in advance, you cannot even book a return ticket unless you are returning in a day or two. Moreover, there is no contact where you can ask a question for a clarification.
Yes, so basically you can book whenever you want, but you can only book kinda last minute flights - flights that are departing during the next 72 hours.
DeleteUsually those flights are actually the most expensive one, so this offer is really a weird one. Wizz offers possibility to make the most expensive flights be the cheapest ones.
This is actually intended for a really weird audience. Those who book last minute. Either people with very loose or very busy schedule. Those that can go whenever they want wherever they want and those that only know last minute that they will be free to go and usually actually pay the highest prices.
Now this offer doesn't look good or bad. It looks really really weird
The super expensive flights will be restricted anyway and you won't be able to book them. So you can only book last-minute tickets for flights that are half/-empty. Which makes sense from Wizz's perspective. I hope no passenger falls for their tricks.
DeleteHow do you know if super expensive flight will be available? Also even prices for half-empty flights last minute are close to 100e so if you are in position to book them last-minute it sounds like a great deal.
DeleteI agree that the biggest question here will be availability, but we will have to wait for september to see how this develops.
Interesting to see. I guess Wizz have seen what is happening to the low cost airlines in the US and their struggle and decided a need to innovate. I see the US low cost carriers going in a premium direction, larger premium chairs at the front etc.. Be interesting to see if passenger numbers go down and it impacts the low cost airlines in Europe they try some of these things in the future.
ReplyDeleteIt was always strange to me why companies, especially low cost ones, don't do last minutes sales, for flights that have some or many empty seats left. Like when stores have bunch of stock left and need to clear it out. Or that items that are on discount because their expiry date is soon to come.
ReplyDeleteI feel that would be profitable for both lcc and for travelers.
This way Wizz started doing exactly that, but in order to participate in that brave new world, you have to pay entry fee of 499-599e per year.
The reason is that companies dont want you to develop habit of booking last minute. Because with last minute model you can not run any business long term. Basicly this promotion shows they need big cash flow up front. It does not look good.
DeleteBecause that would lead to people not booking until closer to departure days. Airlines need the money coming in well in advance as well as close to departure (at a hopefully for them a high price). Airlines do do sales and deals and often Ryanair prices from and to places like London or Milan with vast networks are really competatively priced.
DeleteI know about that "math", but stores can have the same argument, that people would only buy on sales so that will ruin them. Yet, that doesn't happen. I guess there is enough people that for whatever reason, plans, fears of missing out or any other will pay regular price. After all, last-minute tickets are not guaranteed. They (and sales in general) happen only if flight is not sold out and everyone risking waiting for the last minute to book flight knows there is a chance flight will be sold out. I guess that fear is what forces many to not wait for last minute. Even if there is currently fair amount of flights that are not sold out, i guess that would be less of a case if companies start to do last minute sales. Fear of diminishing profits could be balanced by also making limited amount of these last-minute tickets and also adjusting that number for maximum profit. If balanced properly that could actually lead to increased profits, but I guess this approach of charging yearly fee for those who want to participate in test of this new concept is maybe even more genius idea. Take a risk to try new concept and also get cash from your customers in advance without interest :)
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Does it include Wizz priority or you have to pay extra each time you want to take a little roller board with you? Honestly if not, it's a total flop, what can most people do with that tiny backpack...
ReplyDeleteAtlas global had similar offer few years ago. They went out of business few months later...
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