(SeeNews) – Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air said on Monday it has deployed a second aircraft at its base at Bosnia's Tuzla airport to operate five new routes starting in March.
The 180-seater Airbus A320 aircraft will service flights from Tuzla to Cologne, Friedrichshafen and Nuremberg in Germany, Bratislava in Slovakia and Vaxjo in Sweden, Wizz Air said in a statement. Each of the flights to Cologne, Nuremberg and Vaxjo will be operated twice a week, while the routes to Friedrichshafen and Bratislava will have three weekly services.
“As Bosnia and Herzegovina’s largest airline, we continue expanding our ever-growing network, bringing truly affordable opportunities for our passengers and creating more local jobs,” the communications manager of Wizz Air, Sorina Ratz, said in the statement.
The new aircraft will allow Wizz Air to increase the number of weekly flights on the existing routes from Tuzla to Eindhoven, Gothenburg, Malmo and Frankfurt Hahn, the Hungarian company explained.
“The number of destinations and passengers carried in the years after 2013 were constantly growing, and we ended the year 2016 with a record number of 311,331 passengers carried. Basing of the second Wizz Air aircraft at Tuzla airport is a very big challenge and we are planning to achieve in 2017 a number of about 480,000 passengers carried over Tuzla Airport,” the general director of the Tuzla International Airport, Rifet Karasalihovic, said.
For 2017, Wizz Air has announced the launch of six new routes from Bosnia to four countries. The company handled some 310,000 passengers from and to Tuzla in 2016, supporting around 230 local jobs.
