OREANDA-NEWS. Wizz Air, the largest low-cost, low-fare airline in Central and Eastern Europe, presented its optimized Polish route network at a press conference in Gdansk, with more routes to Scandinavia and to summer sun destinations. Wizz Air announced that from 15 May it will operate its 7th Gdansk route to Norway, commencing a new service with two weekly flights to Kristiansand, with fares starting from just PLN 125.

Wizz Air confirmed it will discontinue less popular services to Cork in Ireland, to reflect weakening demand on routes formerly used by immigrant workers, after immigration between Poland and Ireland is now down by 40% over its peak in 2007. The airline presented its customer oriented route network optimization for Polish passengers, announcing two more Polish routes from Katowice to Larnaca and Naples. At a time when the Polish Institute of Tourism forecasts a strong growth of Poles travelling abroad, Wizz Air has announced new Polish routes to leisure destinations like Georgia, Larnaca and Naples, and it confirmed that new routes from Poland to Egypt and Israel may be announced later in the year. During the press conference Wizz Air expressed its satisfaction with the performance of its Gdansk operation. Recently a fourth aircraft had been announced to grow traffic at Gdansk to over 1.2m million passengers per year, capitalizing on the growing demand for Wizz Air’s low fares.