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Wizz Air 2026 expansion adds Palermo‑Tirana, Turin base

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2026-07-27 08:05 UTC → 2026-07-27 09:34 UTC · added removed

In early July 2026 Wizz Air widened its summer schedule from Tuzla, schedule, adding Basel flights and from Tuzla, launching a weekly Paris‑Beauvais service and stationing an eighth A321neo in Sofia for direct Budapest and Rhodes routes. A week later the carrier announced a direct Palermo‑Tirana service, three times weekly from 27 October 2026, and confirmed the route would operate with year‑round operation on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The launch aligns Saturdays, aligned with a planned Wizz Air base at Palermo’s Falcone Borsellino Airport, slated for Airport in August 2026. On 22 July the airline revealed further growth, unveiling direct flights unveiled new nonstop routes to Oslo (starting (from 25 Oct) and to the Egyptian Red Sea resort Marsa Alam (27 Oct), plus extra weekly frequencies on seven existing routes—including routes, including Bilbao, Tenerife, Keflavík, Thessaloniki, Hurghada, Sharm el‑Sheikh and Gizé. On 26 July Wizz Air announced introduced a new nonstop Turin Caselle–Lamezia Terme service, five flights per week from 25 October 2026 with fares from €19.99. The route is Oct 2026, as part of a seventh Italian base at Turin Airport, expected to handle about one million passengers annually, introduce additional connections such as a link to Bilbao, annually and create roughly 780 jobs in Italy (80 direct hires and about 700 in the wider supply chain). Later in the year jobs. A further milestone arrived on 27 July: Wizz Air will open opened an operational base hub at Pristina International Airport in Kosovo, adding three Airport, centered on a single A321neo and supported by a €2 million Kosovo government grant. The hub launches routes – to Basel, Baden‑Baden and Brussels‑Charleroi, Karlsruhe/Baden‑Baden and Basel‑Mulhouse – adds a daily Berlin–Sofia flight starting 20 Sept 2026, priced from €31.99. These moves expand the carrier’s South‑East European footprint and boosting its bring the network by to roughly 0.5 million additional seats annually. A Potential regulatory dispute hurdles in Serbia could force the airline to abandon its Belgrade base as early as November if new permit requirements are not met, with a final decision expected in September.

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