- 2025-10-24 06:21
- Changes in routes
The Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air is convinced that the fourteen new routes it has announced from Bratislava are still not enough.
First, it is worth recalling where Wizz Air currently flies from Bratislava: Skopje and London (Luton). Two destinations.
Next April, Wizz Air is to fly from Bratislava to 27 destinations. These are Skopje, London (Luton), Bucharest, Barcelona, Lamezia Terme, Plovdiv, Varna, Malaga, Košice, Alicante, Athens, Oslo (Gardermoen), EuroAirport, Naples, Niš, Palermo, Larnaca, Chisinau, Berlin, Rome (Fiumicino), Tirana, Dortmund, Ohrid, Tel Aviv, Pristina, Tuzla and Warsaw.
The new routes will be opened gradually. Below is the schedule, which always includes the destination name and date of Wizz Air's inaugural flight:
October 2025: Bucharest (28.10.)
November 2025: Barcelona (14.11.), Lamezia Terme (14.11.), Plovdiv (15.11.), Varna (15.11.), Málaga (16.11.), Košice (21.11.)
December 2025: Alicante (15.12.), Athens (15.12.), Oslo – Gardermoen (15.12....
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The largest Czech manufacturer of civil aviation equipment, Aircraft Industries in Kunovice in the Uherské Hradiště region, reported a profit of 14.8 million crowns for the last year. In 2022, the company ended up with a loss of 225.5 million crowns, also due to anti-Russian sanctions, and the year before that it recorded a loss of 106.9 million crowns.
In the spring of 2022, Aircraft Industries was purchased by the Omnipol group from its then Russian owner, the Ostov company. The sole shareholder of the Kunovice company is the joint-stock company LET Kunovice. The company is now focused primarily on markets in Southeast and Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East. At the same time as the L 410 UVP-E20 aircraft, it also produces a modernized version of the L 410 NG, i.e. a new generation. Both aircraft can carry up to 19 passengers.
In addition to civilian versions, Aircraft Industries also produces cargo, ambulance, airborne or observation versions of the aircraft. Last year, the c...
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- 2025-10-23 12:23
- Changes in routes
Wizz Air continues to deploy its capacity from the Persian Gulf to Eastern Europe. Opening of its first base in Montenegro has been announced this October. The base at Podgorica Airport will open with the start of the summer 2026 flight schedule.
Destinations Wizz Air will offer direct flights from Podgorica? Barcelona, EuroAirport, Gdańsk, Hamburg, Karlsruhe Baden-Baden, Cologne/Bonn, Ljubljana, Maastricht, Malmö, Paris (Beauvais), Poznań, Rzeszow, Rome (Fiumicino), Vilnius and Wrocław.
Where does Wizz Air fly from Podgorica in the current summer schedule? Budapest, Dortmund, London (Gatwick), Memmingen, Milan (Malpensa) and Vienna. A total of six destinations.
Wizz Air is also affected by chronic problems with the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G engines that power its Airbus A320neo aircraft. As of October 23, 2025, the fleet has a total of 171 of them. There are 37 grounded due to engine problems. They are also parked in Ostrava, and are only slowly returning to service.
The carri...
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Italy is one of Ryanair's strongest markets. The Irish low-cost carrier has been the country's largest airline for several years. Its planes land at 32 Italian airports. On the mainland, these are Ancona, Bari, Venice, Bergamo, Bologna, Brindisi, Crotone, Cuneo, Forli, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Milan (Malpensa), Naples, Parma, Perugia, Pescara, Pisa, Reggio Calabria, Rimini, Rome (Fiumicino and Ciampino), Salerno, Trieste, Turin, Treviso and Verona, as well as Alghero, Olbia and Cagliari in Sardinia and finally Catania, Palermo and Trapani in Sicily. The latter airport will open a base next year.
Trapani is located on the western tip of Sicily. The airport, named after the founder of the Targa Florio race, Vincenzo Florio, is both a civilian airport and an air base. Last year, it handled a million passengers. There was also a direct flight from Prague until Covid.
Ryanair is the main carrier at Vincenzo Florio Airport. It connects it with eighteen destinations. Namely, these are Bologna, B...
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- 2025-10-10 06:21
- Changes in routes
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air continues to expand its activities in Slovakia. In the summer, it announced the creation of a base with two Airbus A320 family aircraft at Bratislava airport and at the same time won the tender for the operation of the domestic route Bratislava - Košice. Now, Poprad Airport has also been added, to which Wizz Air has previously only flown from London.
A new route from Gdańsk to Poprad will begin operations on December 25, 2025. The Wizz planes will operate twice a week (every Thursday and Sunday). Tickets are on sale only for the 2025/2026 winter flight schedule. From Gdańsk, the company will also open new routes to Athens, Tallinn, Nice and Vilnius. A total of five new destinations will be added to the existing thirty-nine to which Wizz Air already flies from Gdańsk. Specifically, these are Tirana, Burgas, Split, Billund, Copenhagen, Turku, Paris (Beauvais), Keflavik, Milan (Malpensa), Rome (both airports), Verona, Larnaca, Budapest, Dortmund, Hambu...
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- 2025-10-09 12:21
- Changes in routes
The regular Ryanair Poprad – London route flew for the last time on Friday, August 29, 2025. It operated for less than two years, with the first flight taking place on November 1, 2023.
This was the only route that Ryanair operated from the airport, and the airline does not plan to resume it in the winter 2025/2026 flight schedule. The competitive battle was won by Wizz Air, which connected Poprad with London Luton Airport before Ryanair arrived, and will continue to do so.
Prepared by: Martin Bernict
Photo: planes.cz
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- 2025-10-09 05:56
- Changes in routes
Prague Airport expects two new regular routes in the winter 2025/2026 flight schedule. AJet aircraft, a low-cost subsidiary of Turkish Airlines, will start flying to Ruzyne. And Aegean Airlines will expand its operations at Václav Havel Airport and open a regular route to Thessaloniki.
AJet, formerly AnadoluJet, has its home base at Sabiha Gökçen Airport in Istanbul. It will connect the Czech capital on four flights a week, every Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The inaugural flight will take place on December 15, 2025. These flights will face competition from Pegasus Airlines, flying the same route twice a day.
Aegean Airlines have been flying regularly to Prague from Athens only so far. The new route, A3 517, from Prague to Thessaloniki will start operating on Tuesday, November 25, 2025. It will operate every Tuesday and Wednesday. The carrier sells tickets for both the winter 2025/2026 flight schedule and the summer 2026 flight schedule. Prague has been without a direct regular...
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- 2025-10-02 11:11
- Changes in routes
Prague has a chance to regain direct connections with Armenia. The last time of the Prague to Yerevan connection, Hungarian Wizz Air was operating the route from June 26 to September 15, 2023, but they were experiencing difficulties. Neither Prague nor Yerevan were Wizz Air's bases at that time. The operation was normally provided by aircraft from the base in Milan. One aircraft departed on the Malpensa - Yerevan - Prague - Malpensa route and the other in the opposite direction. This not only ensured service on the Prague - Yerevan route, but also on Milan - Prague and Milan - Yerevan ones.
On Wednesday, October 1, 2025, at 7:49 p.m., an Airbus A321neo, registration HA-LGV (production number 12575, manufactured 2025), operated by Wizz Air, landed at Prague Airport. The Airbus operated the first flight on the reopened route from the Armenian capital, Yerevan. Prague has had direct air connections with Armenia for the first time in two years since yesterday. Wizz Air last flew on t...
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AEI® is expanding its technical services in eastern Slovakia. Technical support and MRO services are provided to Smartwings at the Kosice International Airport since July 2025.
AEI® has been operating in Kosice since 2016, running a certified MRO station in accordance with EASA Part-145 regulations. The new cooperation with Smartwings thus extends the company’s long-term presence in the region and represents a logical step in its further expansion.
“We are ready to provide reliable technical services for Smartwings aircraft and thus contribute to the smooth operation of the carrier in eastern Slovakia. At the same time, we are strengthening our local background and confirming our readiness to respond to the growing needs of clients in the region,” said Branislav Cifra, CEO & Accountable Manager of AEI®.
AEI® is a flexible and experienced provider of maintenance for commercial aircraft, with an emphasis on reliability, rapid response and adaptation to customer operational require...
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Brno, the Czech Republic, 28 May 2025 AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE today signed an industrial cooperation project agreement with Lockheed Martin at the IDET international defence and security technology trade fair in Brno as part of the Czech F-35 aircraft acquisition programme.
The agreement represents a specific collaborative project to develop and produce a next-generation Multi Sensor Reconnaissance Pod from advanced composite materials.
“This agreement confirms that the Czech aerospace industry has the know-how and capabilities to participate in the development of cutting-edge technologies for the most advanced aircraft of today,” said Viktor Sotona, President and Chairman of the Board of Aero. “The Multi Sensor Reconnaissance Pod project confirms Aero's capabilities not only in terms of producing unique technologies in the field of advanced composite structures, but also in terms of significant international cooperation.”
The signing...
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