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Zawya
18-07-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Wizz Air to resume flights from Poland's Modlin Airport
London-listed low-cost carrier Wizz Air will resume flights from Warsaw Modlin Airport in central Poland after a 13-year hiatus, with plans to deploy two aircraft there from December, operations officer Roland Tischner said on Friday. Wizz Air said on Monday it was closing down its Abu Dhabi operation, giving it the ability to relocate capacity throughout Europe. The airline had shifted its operations to Warsaw's Chopin Airport in 2012 after a runway failure at Modlin. "After successful negotiation and discussion and agreement with the management of Modlin Airport, we are going to deploy two new Airbus neo planes to Modlin airport starting in December," Tischner said at a conference in Warsaw. The new routes will serve eight countries and connect Modlin with Athens, Sardinia's Alghero, Barcelona, Bergamo, Bergen, Brindisi, Chisinau, Malta, Palermo, Paphos and Sofia. Last week Ryanair announced plans to treble the number of passengers it serves at Modlin airport to more than 5 million a year by 2030. (Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk; Writing: Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)
Reuters
08-07-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Ryanair sees strong summer bookings, CEO says heatwave not deterring travel
WARSAW, July 8 (Reuters) - Ryanair (RYA.I), opens new tab is seeing strong bookings and rising prices for its summer season, with no signs that customers are delaying holidays due to a recent heatwave, Chief Executive Michael O'Leary said on Tuesday. O'Leary, whose airline sources almost all of its aircraft from Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab, said he was hopeful that commercial aircraft will be exempt from U.S. and EU tariffs, but admitted that "nobody is really sure". He reaffirmed a May forecast that the Irish airline, Europe's largest by passenger numbers, would recover most, but not all, of the 7% fall in average fares reported last year as consumers struggled with high interest rates. "Bookings into summer 2025 are strong, prices are rising," O'Leary said. "August looks strong and all of the big holiday destinations, so Italy, Greece, Spain, the Balearics, the Canaries, even Morocco are booking very strongly through the summer," he added. "Heat waves I would say they're a temporary phenomenon," O'Leary said. "It doesn't tend to alter the travel patterns of people this summer." O'Leary was speaking in Warsaw, where he announced plans to treble the number of passengers Ryanair serves at the city's Modlin airport to more than 5 million a year by 2030.
