Anyone ever flown with Wizz Airlines?

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Hi

Im doing some uni work and getting rather bored. Doing a comparison of the future prospects of Ryanair and Wizz Airlines, who are based in Eastern Europe, Poland I think. If anyone on here has ever flown with them, are they actually budget in the same extremem way as Ryanair, or am I heading up the wrong street here!

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Yeah they're a Polish budget airline, pretty much on par with Easyjet. They fly a lot from Stansted and Luton, mostly from Luton though to places like Warsaw, Gdanks, Katowice, Bucharest etc...

Their aircraft seem to be in good shape and their pilots are quite good too.
 
Theres another firm called SkyEurpe who claim to be budget, but they alocate you leather seats, and give out free coffee, and have food on board. That isnt budget in my terms. Budget is when theres a rugby scrum to try to get the best seat, theres still something sticky on your seat that was there went you went on holiday a week ago, your having to eat some sandwitch shaped object you got from the airport, and the only purpose of the hostesses is to tell you to shut up, sit down and put your seatbelt on! :)
 
So they definately are budget then? Fairly safe to asume they are in the same strategic group as Ryanair in terms of service quality and geographical scope (but with the difference being easter europe compaired to western)
 
Skeeter said:
So they definately are budget then? Fairly safe to asume they are in the same strategic group as Ryanair in terms of service quality and geographical scope (but with the difference being easter europe compaired to western)
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Aye, they're definitely a low cost outfit.
 
flown with them last couple of years in the summer to go home

had no probs, they are def budget, gota book in advance to get super cheapo tickets :p
 
Ryanair are the best airline i've had the pleasure of flying with.

I've been using them for 10 years now and they have never lost my luggage, been delayed more than 1 hour (honestly) and I've only had 2 cancellations due to severe weather.

Compare to BA, used them around 10 times had a 10 hour delay in Heathrow and they've lost my luggage twice.

Flew last month with Iberia for first time they managed to lose my child's got it back 3 days later.

Ryanair get you from A to B for next to nothing. If you want to pay 5-10 times more for "free" soft drinks and some nuts then feel free to pay but don't **** off Ryanair who do a great job.

Anyone who flys on holiday with ryanair or a flag carrier and doesn't have proper insurance and ends up stranded for days is a pillock and they don't have any sympathy from me.
 
As a side note if oil prices stay above $80 a barrel the only airline left once all the others go out of bussiness is Ryan air. This is due to cunning futures bought for oil and next to nothing running costs besides the fuel.
 
jas72 said:
Ryanair are the best airline i've had the pleasure of flying with.

I've been using them for 10 years now and they have never lost my luggage, been delayed more than 1 hour (honestly) and I've only had 2 cancellations due to severe weather.

Compare to BA, used them around 10 times had a 10 hour delay in Heathrow and they've lost my luggage twice.

Flew last month with Iberia for first time they managed to lose my child's got it back 3 days later.

Ryanair get you from A to B for next to nothing. If you want to pay 5-10 times more for "free" soft drinks and some nuts then feel free to pay but don't **** off Ryanair who do a great job.

Anyone who flys on holiday with ryanair or a flag carrier and doesn't have proper insurance and ends up stranded for days is a pillock and they don't have any sympathy from me.
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No surprise really... two totally different airlines. Flown with both (albeit only once with BA - Man - Heathrow). Ryanair generally fly to small airports - they dont have to pay ridiculous fees for slots at heathrow, for example - so there's generally a low probabality of things going wrong/delays as there's not much to go wrong compared to heathrow.

Whereas BA will fly to large airports... For example london (heathrow, gatwick) to Rome - the larger airport as apposed to ryanair.. liverpool > Rome (Chiampino - the smaller airport in Rome) so there's a greater chance of stuff going wrong - even getting on a stand at heathrow can be hard... weather clogging up airspace round these big airports etcetc you get the general idea :P

And finally ryanair earn their money from quick a to b no BS routes
 
Wizz Air wa a rather fun airline to try, when i flew to Warsaw it was a free for all on where you wanted to sit, so there was a fair bit of pushing and shoving at the gate to get a decent spot to leg it down the gangway to the plane!
 
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