WizzAir launched a base at the Lublin airport
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Since 2012 the Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air operates on the Lublin airport. Now it is supposed to launch an operating base due to a huge increase in flights and passengers. In 2014 the airline transported 80,000 clients, the amount of passengers till the end of 2015 is estimated to be 230,000 and in 2016 as much as 430,000.
One Wizz Airplane will be based in Lublin permanently - Airbus A-320. For the airplane and passenger service 35 new workers employees were hired. "It is a new plain in new colours. Lublin is the sixth base of Wizzair in Poland. Poland with as much as 21 planes of this airline is our greatest operating base," the director for Wizz Air operation Dedrik Pen informed.
Launching a base at the Lublin airport goes together with starting new flight directions from Lublin. On Monday flights to Brussels were activated, on Thuesday the first plane will go to Doncaster - Sheffield and on Wednesday to Glasgow. Wizz Air also transports passengers to London, Oslo and Stockholm from the Lublin airport.