Wizz air summer flight release dates

jkepple

Hello
Anyone with any idea when summer flights are released?
Nothing on website and phones useless
Thanks

Caz3121

what route are you looking for?
some random checks I can see flights available till end October, some others I can see till April 2024
Seasonal routes I can see stopping May and then restarting end October

jkepple

Caz3121 said:

what route are you looking for?
some random checks I can see flights available till end October, some others I can see till April 2024
Seasonal routes I can see stopping May and then restarting end October

I was looking at Morocco sadly

Caz3121

Assuming Gatwick to Marrakesh, this is a seasonal route and not operated in the Summer months, they have released flights up until 31st March 2024. Last flight for season out 20th May, first flight for new season 30th October...nothing in between.
BA, TUI and EasyJet operate from Gatwick to Marrakesh all year but not Wizz.

CKhalvashi

Caz3121 said:

Assuming Gatwick to Marrakesh, this is a seasonal route and not operated in the Summer months, they have released flights up until 31st March 2024. Last flight for season out 20th May, first flight for new season 30th October...nothing in between.
BA, TUI and EasyJet operate from Gatwick to Marrakesh all year but not Wizz.

Wizz have a small base at Gatwick compared to all 3 of those and RAK may not be the best use of an aircraft and expensive slots for peak summer. I believe the route is replaced with something in Greece which is high yielding and very seasonal.

If you have a Wizz account (you can register for one if not) then you'll generally get an e-mail when the new season goes on sale, including an e-mail a few weeks before that the season is on sale for WDC holders. Many S24 routes already are on sale and with a quick look at my app includes this one.

TELLIT01

Booking anything with Wizzair seems to be a gamble.  They cancel routes, and even use of airports, at the drop of a hat and have a terrible reputation for not refunding when they do cancel.  If there is any alternative, even at a higher price, I would use it.

CKhalvashi

TELLIT01 said:

Booking anything with Wizzair seems to be a gamble.  They cancel routes, and even use of airports, at the drop of a hat and have a terrible reputation for not refunding when they do cancel.  If there is any alternative, even at a higher price, I would use it.

My personal experience is that they're no less reliable than anyone else as a carrier and the delays/cancellations aren't as bad as most people claim.

I had them cancel a single flight last year (Krakow-Luton in January) outside of bookings to Ukraine. That wasn't a problem and actually the flight I replaced it with (same route 24 hours later) created a more suitable itinerary when a friend's direct flight back home was cancelled (they flew KRK-ODS with Ryanair about 2 hours before our LTN went, coming in from KUT the day before).

I suppose this depends on what routes you're using, but by air I'm generally in/out of Poland the most last year, followed by Georgia, then Romania, with one off trips to Armenia and Austria last year. These are Wizz's home ground with many established regional bases (they're the only airline flying to Iasi ex-UK for example since September, there are no other low cost or even reasonably priced alternatives at the moment).

I think we should actually applaud Wizz's ambition and courage to expand outside of their comfort zone (for example the Spanish routes and now closed Cardiff base) and give new things a try, especially during what's been a really difficult few years for aviation in general. On a more positive note (but one that most in the UK won't see), they've grown from no based aircraft in early 2020 to Italy's 3rd largest airline and if you told me 3 years ago they'd have the same number of based aircraft in Tirana as Luton I definitely wouldn't have believed you, so definitely some of the expansion has worked really well.

TELLIT01

This from late last year suggests that Wizzair does think itself above the law.  https://aviationsourcenews.com/airline/wizz-air-uk-fails-to-pay-out-hundreds-of-uk-based-claims/  Also do a search on "Wizzair ignores court order" and see the number of reports on that aspect too.

I don't know what their operations are like in other countries but as I live in the UK I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole.

CKhalvashi

TELLIT01 said:

This from late last year suggests that Wizzair does think itself above the law.  https://aviationsourcenews.com/airline/wizz-air-uk-fails-to-pay-out-hundreds-of-uk-based-claims/  Also do a search on "Wizzair ignores court order" and see the number of reports on that aspect too.

I don't know what their operations are like in other countries but as I live in the UK I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole.

It doesn't suggest anything other than their team has been overwhelmed during a significantly busy period for them.

I also live in the UK and once again have found them nothing but reliable. Once again I'm not sure what routes you have used, but aside from some issues at Gatwick (headed by a woman called Amy Farren who admitted to taking her child out of school in contravention of UK law for an 'educational' trip to Cyprus, hopefully she has been appropriately fined in accordance with the law) no rights were breached.

Wizz have accepted responsibility for such delays.

You choosing to not use the lowest cost airline in Europe means more cheap tickets for the rest of us, so I'm grateful for the chances you are giving

eskbanker

I'm not in a position to opine about their reliability, but on the above point about the difficulty of extracting refunds, that would seem to be endorsed by the CAA's intervention, which I don't recall seeing for their peers and competitors:

https://www.caa.co.uk/news/regulator-raises-concerns-with-wizz-air-following-complaints/

TELLIT01

There is a big difference between 'accepting responsibility for such delays' and actually doing anything about them.  I wouldn't trust a company which blatantly ignores court orders.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/experts/article-11446965/TONY-HETHERINGTON-airline-flying-law-Wizz-Air-UK.html