Wizz Air to launch 6 new routes from Romania's Iasi, add plane in 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, Wizz Air said in a press release.

To serve the new routes and more, Wizz Air will also add a new aircraft to its Romanian fleet starting April, following an investment of $100 million (117 million).

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 2018.

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 130 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.

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