Wizz Air does not see Romania as a country in crisis

Hungary’s Wizz Air low-cost airline, which carried 1.6 million passengers in the first nine months of the year, up 30% from a year ago, is taking its expansion plan further by introducing new flights to Larnaca and Malaga, as well as by increasing flight frequencies on 16 foreign destinations.
“We do not see Romania as a country in crisis, but as a growth opportunity, considering the number of passengers flying with Wizz Air is on the rise. For this very reason we decided to boost our transport capacity by bringing a new aircraft to Bucharest,” stated John Stephenson, deputy chairman with Wizz Air, operating from three hubs in Romania.
Wizz Air is the foreign-held low-cost carrier to have boasted the fastest growth in the past four years domestically. It came from 17,000 passengers in 2006, when it arrived in Romania, to around 1.7 million last year, according to officials. This August, the company’s market share on the low-cost segment was put at 49%.
“We expect to reach a 60% market share by late December considering Blue Air’s restructuring process”.