November 3 (SeeNews) - Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air said it launched on Friday a new route from Romania's western city of Timisoara to Tel Aviv in Israel.
Wizz Air will fly from Timisoara twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays, the company said in a press release.
This is the first Wizz Air route connecting Timisoara with a destination outside Europe.
In mid-October, Wizz Air said it will start to fly to the Greek capital Athens from Romania's Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca and Moldova's Chisinau in March.
In August, Wizz Air said it it will add six new routes from Romania's northeastern city of Iasi starting April. The new routes are to Billund in Denmark, Dortmund in Germany, Eindhoven in Netherlands, Malmö in Sweden, Paris in France and Thessaloniki in Greece.
In June, Wizz Air said it will allocate a new aircraft to its Romanian fleet and will operate two new routes from Bucharest - to Gothenburg in Sweden and to Nice in France also starting April.
Along with the newest destinations available from Bucharest, from 2018 the new aircraft will allow Wizz Air to increase the number of weekly flights on the most popular routes from Bucharest - to Billund, Geneva, Eindhoven, Paris, Tel Aviv, Bari, London Luton and Barcelona.
Wizz Air has over 750 employees in Romania and a fleet of 22 aircraft and has carried 30 million passengers on its low-fare routes from the country, since its very first flight in 2006. The company is currently offering over 143 routes to 56 destinations from 10 Romanian airports.
Wizz Air carried some 5.5 million passengers to and from Romania in 2016, up 23% on the year.