Hungarian Low-Cost Airline Wizz Air Launches New Routes from Romania to Rome, Dortmund, Paris

As of December 17, Wizz Air flies three times a week from the western city of Timisoara to Dortmund in Germany and to the Italian capital Rome, the company said in a statement. It will also operate three times a week a route from the northwestern city of Cluj to the capital of France, Paris.

The low-cost carrier will increase the frequency of its flights from Timisoara to London from twice to three times a week, it said in the same statement.

Wizz Air will launch an operation base in Timiosoara on February 15 in which it will invest more than 100 million euro ($146 million) over the next three years. It will be its third in Romania, after those in the capital Bucharest and Cluj, and tenth overall.

Wizz Air plans to carry 950,000 passengers on its Romanian destinations this year, 1.7 million next year and 2.5 million in 2010.

The company operates flights from Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ukraine and Romania, which it entered in July 2006, to numerous destinations in the rest of Europe.

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