Wizz Air beefs up Larnaca base, 5 new routes

Wizz Air, Europe’s fastest-growing airline announced Wednesday the allocation of a third aircraft to its Larnaca base allowing to offer 36 destinations from Cyprus.

The new Airbus A320 will join the fleet on 1 August, enabling the start of five new routes from Larnaca to Paris Beauvais (France), Eindhoven (Holland), Prague (Czech Republic), Gdansk (Poland) and Heraklion (Greece) as well as increasing the frequency of its Athens route.

Flights are on sale on wizzair.com with fares starting as low as EUR 19.99.

Wizz announced the opening of its Cyprus base less than a month ago by allocating 2 aircraft and adding 11 routes to the airline’s Larnaca network.

Wizz Air’s history in Cyprus goes back a decade when the first flight landed in

December 2010. The airline has carried over 800,000 passengers to and from Cyprus in 2019.

“This summer the airline will have a fleet of three modern, state-of-the-art aircraft at its Larnaca base. Wizz Air remains highly committed to Larnaca, Cyprus and to offering great services paired with low fares to its distinguished passengers,” said a company statement.

“The newly allocated capacity of over 280,000 seats per year will further contribute to the Cypriot aviation market and to the creation of over 30 new direct jobs with Wizz Air.

Together with these five new services Wizz Air now offers 36 routes to 20 countries from Larnaca,” it added.

Since 2010 the airline has carried more than 2.5 million passengers on its Larnaca routes.

“Wizz’s fast-growing operations in the country will further stimulate the local economy, by increasing employment in Cyprus’ aviation and tourism sectors and supporting more than 750 local jobs in the associated industries in 2020.”

The airline announced a range of enhanced hygiene measures, to ensure the health and safety of its passengers and crew.

As part of these new protocols, throughout the flight, both cabin crew and passengers are required to wear facemasks, with cabin crew also required to wear gloves.

Wizz Air’s aircraft are regularly put through an industry-leading fogging process with an antiviral solution and, following WIZZ’s stringent daily cleaning schedule, all of the airline’s aircraft are further disinfected overnight with the same antiviral solution.