Wizz Air: Six-month results are close to last year's

Hungarian airline Wizz Air transported 370,000 passengers in the first six months of this year on flights to and from Romania, close to last year’s level of 415,500 passengers. The company’s target is to reach 1 million passengers on the local market, and outrank the low cost market leader, Blue Air in the coming period. Blue Air, a Romanian-held company, to reach 1.3 million this year. The number of passengers transported on the local market in the first half of this year is 2.5 times higher than the same time last year, while the number of weekly flights reached 63 in June, from 22 a year ago. This year, Wizz Air has strengthened its presence on the Cluj airport, by introducing flights to Dortmund, Milan and Valencia. It also targets the domestic market, via the Bucharest-Cluj flight.