Wizz Air has confirmed that there won\u2019t be scheduled services to the U.S.<\/p>\n
The actions comes following speculation in some news outlets<\/a> that the carrier was planning to open some routes. The stories seem to have stemmed from an application made by Wizz Air to operate charter flights to the U.S, presumably using its new A321XLR aircraft.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0No New York flights as Wizz CEO \u2018doesn\u2019t want to be buried\u2019 in North Atlantic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n However, the airline has made clear that these flights are simply charter operations for the upcoming football World Cup in the summer.<\/p>\n On an earnings call held on January 29, CFO Ian Mullings confirmed that the airline had\u00a0 \u2018no plans\u2019 to open a scheduled service across the Atlantic. This is backed up by comments made by CEO\u00a0 J\u00f3zsef V\u00e1radi to ABN in 2024 where he explained that trying to compete with legacy carriers on Europe-US routes would likely result in being \u2018buried in the North Atlantic\u2019 as competition is already fierce.<\/p>\n The post Wizz Air rules out scheduled U.S flights<\/a> appeared first on Aviation Business News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wizz Air has confirmed that there won\u2019t be scheduled services to the U.S. The actions comes following speculation in some news outlets that the carrier was planning to open some routes. The stories seem to have stemmed from an application made by Wizz Air to operate charter flights to the U.S, presumably using its new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}