February 27 (SeeNews) - Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air said on Monday it will start flying from Romania's northern city of Suceava to Italy's Treviso as of March 18.
The new route will be operated twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, until March 27, the air carrier said in a statement. Following this date, the flight will be operated on Mondays and Fridays.
Currently, Wizz Air flies from Suceava to Milan, Bologna, and Rome in Italy, as well as to London.
In mid-February, Wizz Air said it will increase the frequency of routes from the Romanian cities of Suceava, Constanta and Iasi to London starting June 18.
Wizz Air carried some 5.5 million passengers to and from Romania in 2016, up 23% on the year.
For this year, the operator 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.
In 2016, Wizz Air opened two new bases, in Iasi and Sibiu, and added a new aircraft to its fleet in Bucharest, expanding its fleet in the Romanian capital to nine aircraft.
Wizz Air has over 750 employees in Romania and a fleet of 20 aircraft, including five new 230-seat Airbus A321. The company has been present in Romania since 2007 and is currently offering 133 routes to 54 destinations from 10 Romanian airports.
The company carried over 23 million passengers globally last year, up by 21% as compared with 2015.
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