Having launched services from Budapest to Bergen just a few months ago, Wizz Air adds Stavanger as the Hungarian gateway’s third Norwegian destination, while also confirming a five-times weekly service to Basel next summer.
Budapest currently offers 12 weekly flights to the home of Santa Claus and the Northern Lights, split between Oslo (10 times weekly) and Bergen (twice-weekly).
As part of the airline’s plans to base two further aircraft at the airport next summer, Wizz Air will add two routes from its Budapest base for S18, namely to Stavanger and Basel. Services to the Norwegian city will be flown twice-weekly from 15 March next year, while the Swiss city sector will be operated five times weekly from 3 May.
“Coming just a few months after Wizz Air launched its services to Bergen, we are over-the-moon that our biggest airline partner has decided to add Stavanger as our third destination in the country,” enthuses Balazs Bogats, Head of Airline Development, Budapest Airport. He added: “The number of passengers between Hungary and the Scandinavian country grew by 26% last year, so Norway clearly is a growth market for us.”
Budapest currently offers 12 weekly flights to the home of Santa Claus and the Northern Lights, split between Oslo (10 times weekly) and Bergen (twice-weekly). The addition of the route to Stavanger will see the airport offer over 2,500 weekly seats to the Scandinavian country on 14 weekly frequencies, strengthening its position as the fourth largest market in this important region.
“A city break could be popular on both sides of this exciting new route,” comments Bogats on the extra five weekly rotations to Basel. “Given the Swiss airport’s unique location, it serves three country markets – Switzerland, France and Germany – we look forward to providing better connectivity to this multi-cultural region.”
These extra services to Basel will see the seat capacity and weekly frequency to the city leapfrog those that are presently offered to the #2 Swiss market of Geneva. In total, Budapest will witness 39 weekly services and over 6,100 weekly seats to the land of watches, chocolate and cuckoo clocks next summer, as a result of Wizz Air’s S18 expansion plans.
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