October 25 (SeeNews) - The Romanian unit of Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air said on Tuesday it will launch a new route from Bucharest to Warsaw, Poland starting June 2017.
The new route will be operated four times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, the air carrier said in a statement.
With this new route, Wizz Air will operate a total of 46 routes from the Romanian capital city.
The company said it had allocated a new aircraft to its base in Warsaw, which will operate a total of seven new routes, connecting Warsaw with four Central and Eastern European capitals: Bucharest, Bratislava (Slovakia), Kiev (Ukraine) and Vilnius (Lithuania).
Wizz Air announced earlier this month the establishment of a new base in Moldova's capital Chisinau, for which it allocated an Airbus A320 aicraft - an investment project worth $98 million (87.2 million euro).
In May, Wizz Air said it will invest 100 million euro ($112 million) in a new A321 aircraft to service a new route from Bucharest to the Spanish island of Tenerife starting November. Also, starting December, the company will deploy another aircraft to its Bucharest base, its ninth in the Romanian capital.
Wizz Air now offers a total of 123 Romanian routes to 54 different destinations and has a local fleet of 19 planes. Wizz Air plans to grow its fleet to 20 aircraft in the country by the end of 2016, and will have a total of ten airports out of which seven are operating bases.
In 2015, Wizz Air transported more than 4.5 million passengers to and from Romania, according to the company's own data.
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