Wizz Air to restart flights between UK and Israel

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Wizz Air has introduced it’s to resume flights between the UK and Israel.

Most carriers suspended flights to Israel in October following the beginning of the country’s battle with Hamas.

Wizz Air mentioned that it’ll resume serving the Middle Eastern nation “with routes from Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest, Krakow, London [and] Rome to Tel Aviv” from the beginning of March.

The Hungarian airline beforehand related the UK and Israel with flights from Gatwick and Luton.

British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and easyJet haven’t introduced plans to resume serving Israel.

Ryanair was compelled to cancel 870 flights throughout October due to the battle.

Israeli airline El Al has continued flying between the UK and Tel Aviv in the course of the battle.

Meanwhile, Wizz Air introduced a 16 per cent enhance in working losses, from €155.5 million (£133 million) between October and December 2022 to €180.4 million (£154 million) throughout the identical interval final 12 months.

Chief government Jozsef Varadi mentioned: “At the beginning of the quarter we faced geopolitical crises in Israel and the Middle East and have responded by cancelling affected flights to protect our passengers, employees, assets and general public.

“Despite the associated flight cancellations and redeployment of capacity at short notice, we managed operations well, delivering improved on-time performance and significantly better utilisation year on year.”