2025-12-01 16:20
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2025-12-01 16:20
Wizz Air resumed operations at the Warsaw–Modlin airport, opening its sixth base in Poland there. The carrier last based its planes in Modlin in 2012. Now it is returning with two Airbus A321neo machines and a network of 11 new connections – the airline announced on Monday.
Passengers can use new Wizz Air connections from Modlin to Bergamo, Athens, Barcelona, Bergen, Malta, Sofia, Brindisi, Alghero, Paphos, Palermo and Chisinau. The carrier announced that thanks to the base it will provide over PLN 500,000 from Modlin. places per year, and it already serves nearly 219 routes throughout Poland. Two Airbus A321neo aircraft stationed in Modlin consume 20 percent less. less fuel and emit 20 percent less CO2 than the previous generation.
According to the airline, the launch of the base is expected to bring tangible economic effects to the region – the carrier is creating 80 jobs for pilots and cabin crew and estimates that up to 700 additional jobs will be created in the airport surroundings. Wizz Air also emphasizes that since 2004 it has carried 128 million passengers to and from Poland.
The carrier chose Welcome Airport Services as its Ground Handling Agent. So far, the branch of Welcome Airport Services in Modlin, on behalf of the airport, only dealt with servicing passengers with disabilities and sometimes provided services for charter air operations.
Wizz Air is a Hungarian airline and one of the largest carriers operating in Poland. It has a fleet of 244 Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft.
In recent years, Wizz Air in Masovia operated exclusively from Warsaw Chopin Airport, currently it also flies from Radom. The airline started flights from Modlin shortly after opening the airport to civilian traffic in July 2012, and ended them in December 2012 after closing the runway due to damage. Then the flights were moved to Chopin Airport.
After the reopening of the Modlin airport in July 2013, Wizz Air decided to remain exclusively at Warsaw's Okęcie airport. Ryanair resumed its flights from Modlin in September 2013. (PAP)
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