August 9 (SeeNews) - Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air said on Monday it will start flying from Romania's capital Bucharest to Israel's Eilat in October.
The new route will be operated twice a week, on Wednesdays and Fridays, Wizz Air said in a statement.
Eilat is Israel's southernmost city, a busy port and a popular resort for domestic and international tourists.
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 starting April 2018. The new aircraft allocated to Bucharest base will be the fifth Airbus A321 in the Romanian fleet and will create 42 additional direct Romanian jobs with the airline.
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 Beauvais, Tel Aviv, Bari, London Luton and Barcelona.
With the new acquisition, Wizz Air is extending its Bucharest fleet to 10 aircraft, an investment of more than $1 billion (1.14 billion euro) over time.
For this year, the airline has already announced the addition of new aircraft bases in Cluj-Napoca and Craiova and the initiation of 15 new routes to and from Romania.
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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