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[Gość: frequent flyer]

Wizz Air (Wednesday, Nov 5, 2003)
Is a start-up low-cost airline planning to inaugurate operations in May04.
The airline, launched by an Ex-Malev Chief Executive, has registered in the
UK and will operate
from bases in Hungary and Poland.

[Gość: frequent flyer]

Májusban indulhat a volt Malév-vezér légitársasága
Május elsején akarja elindítani első járatát Váradi József volt Malév-vezér
szeptemberben alapított, Wizz Air névre hallgató fapados légitársasága. A
londoni bejegyzésű, budapesti és katowicei telephellyel bíró cég most
tőkéstársakat keres.
Várhatóan a londoni Stansted repülőtéren akarja kiépíteni bázisát Váradi József
volt Malév-vezérigazgató szeptemberben alapított "filléres" légitársasága, a
Wizz Air. A stanstedi bázis megszerzéséhez komoly tőkére lesz szüksége. A
PRWeek jól értesült forrásokra hivatkozva azt írja: Váradinak több komoly
támogatója is akad. A Wizz Airt Londonban jegyezték be, de Budapesten és a
lengyelországi Katowicében is van telephelye.

[gdabski]

Rozumiem tylko lengyelországi Katowicében :)

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Jozsef Varadi, former chief executive of Hungary's national carrier Malev, has
set up a new low-cost airline due to start operations in May to coincide with
Hungary joining the European Union.

Wizz Air, registered in Britain, has already set up local units in Hungary and
Poland and has increased its capital to fund its business plan, it said in a
statement. It gave no financial details.

The new budget carrier said it would benefit from industry liberalization, with
new EU members having to scrap treaties protecting local airlines when they
join the enlarged bloc.

Wizz Air said it was in talks with various airports in central Europe to find a
base, and expected to generate passenger traffic of "several millions" in its
first year. It said it would use a fleet of modern aircraft.

Ex-communist central Europe, with 75 million potential travellers in eight
countries due to join the EU, has been slow to catch on to the low-cost airline
concept.

But this year several firms have begun to fly to Hungary, including
Germanwings, a low-cost affiliate of Lufthansa, Snowflake, a service operated
by Scandinavian airline SAS, and Slovakia-based Sky Europe.

Varadi was removed from Malev earlier this year by Hungary's state
privatization holding, which controls the airline, after an inquiry found
irregularities in auditing tenders.

Courtesy of airwise.com

/Gdabski