Wizz to add significant Polish capacity

Wizz Air has announced that it will add 30% more capacity from Poland in 2010, by adding 14x A320 aircraft from March. The airline's Polish fleet will increase to 14 Airbus A320 aircraft by March 2010. Following the earlier announced expansions in Gdansk and Warsaw as well as the opening of the Wroclaw base Wizz Air will also expand operations in Katowice by adding a new aircraft in March 2010.

Also in March Wizz Air will start flying Lodz, the 6th Polish airport the airline operates from.

Wizz is currently the leading low cost carrier in Poland, and second in terms of flights operated, the leading carriers are

• LOT - 935 weekly departures
• Wizz Air - 216 weekly departures
• Ryanair - 199 weekly departures
• Lufthansa- 191 weekly departures
• Jetair - 86 weekly departures