SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), November 6 (SeeNews) – Low-cost air carrier Wizz Air said on Thursday it will open an air base at Bosnia's Tuzla airport where it will deploy one aircraft, Airbus A320, in June 2015.
Wizz Air will launch flights from Tuzla - set to become its 19th base, to Munich Memmingen and Stockholm Skavsta, as of June 26, 2015, the carrier said in a statement.
In addition, flights from Tuzla to Frankfurt Hahn and Oslo Sandefjord Torp will be launched on June 28, 2015.
Wizz Air will operate two flights a week to Munich and Stockholm - on Mondays and Fridays, while flights to Frankfurt and Oslo will run on Wednesdays and Sundays, it said.
With the new routes, Wizz Air will offer flights to nine destinations in five countries from Tuzla airport.
Since launching operations from Tuzla in May 2013, Wizz Air has carried more than 180,000 passengers to and from the Bosnian airport, the statement said, quoting the company’s commercial director Gyorgy Abran.
Bosnia will be the 11th country with a Wizz Air base.
Tuzla is located in the Muslim-Croat Federation, one of the two entities that form Bosnia. The other is the Serb Republic. Bosnia’s three other international airports are located in the capital Sarajevo, in Banja Luka, the main city in the Serb Republic, and in the southern town of Mostar, in the Federation.