Wizz Air plans to reopen a base at Suceava International Airport (SCV) in Romania after a two-year absence, allocating two Airbus A321neo aircraft and adding eight new routes for the upcoming winter season.
The decision comes as the ULCC continues to expand across Romania, where it holds a 47% capacity share, according to OAG Schedules Analyser data. The additional Neos will bring the airline’s Romanian winter fleet to 43 aircraft and add more than 169,000 seats to the market.
“This development represents a key milestone in strengthening our presence in Suceava, bringing our local network to 13 routes across six countries,” says Mauro Peneda, managing director of Wizz Air’s Maltese subsidiary.
Flights will begin launching from Sept. 30, when service to Vienna resumes. Additional new routes will follow from Dec. 15-18 to Bologna, Milan Bergamo and Venice in Italy; Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden in Germany; Birmingham in England; Larnaca in Cyprus; and Brussels Charleroi in Belgium. Frequencies to Dortmund, Germany, will also increase to 4X-weekly starting Jan. 5, 2026.
“Since the start of operations at Suceava in August 2016 with the first direct flight to Milan, Wizz Air has carried more than 3 million passengers and continues to be a reliable airline for our passengers,” SCV Manager Ioan Măriuța says. “The operational base means greater connectivity for passengers, easier access to the business opportunities our region has to offer, while ensuring a more relevant position for the airport, ranked fifth in the national passenger traffic.”
The return of Wizz’s base in Suceava aligns with a broader network strategy centered on densifying operations at established bases, increasing reliance on lower-cost secondary airports, and phasing out marginal or loss-making routes as it continues to grapple with aircraft groundings related to GTF engines.
Over the past 12 months, the airline has reduced its exposure to new market experimentation, with the share of capacity on routes less than three years old falling by 14 percentage points year-on-year.
Wizz launched operations in Romania in 2006 and now operates 192 routes from 13 airports, connecting 70 destinations in 24 countries. The airline employs more than 1,600 staff in the country.
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