Wizz Air to begin St. Petersburg service
Wizz Air will launch 2X-weekly Budapest-St. Petersburg Airbus A320 service Aug 27, becoming the first foreign LCC to operate to Russia’s Pulkovo International. Wizz Air received a Budapest-Moscow Vnukovo designation and launched flights to the Russian capital in 2013. Since then it has carried 440,000 passengers between the two cities, Wizz Air said. St. Petersburg is Wizz Air’s 13th destination from Budapest. Wizz Air operates flights from Budapest and Debrecen with 12 aircraft. In 2016, the LCC carried 3.7m passengers to and from Hungary, up 23% year-over-year. Pulkovo St. Petersburg Airport is the fourth airport in Russia in terms of passenger traffic. In Q1, Pulkovo traffic grew 25% YOY to 2.9m passengers <br/>
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Wizz Air to begin St. Petersburg service
Wizz Air will launch 2X-weekly Budapest-St. Petersburg Airbus A320 service Aug 27, becoming the first foreign LCC to operate to Russia’s Pulkovo International. Wizz Air received a Budapest-Moscow Vnukovo designation and launched flights to the Russian capital in 2013. Since then it has carried 440,000 passengers between the two cities, Wizz Air said. St. Petersburg is Wizz Air’s 13th destination from Budapest. Wizz Air operates flights from Budapest and Debrecen with 12 aircraft. In 2016, the LCC carried 3.7m passengers to and from Hungary, up 23% year-over-year. Pulkovo St. Petersburg Airport is the fourth airport in Russia in terms of passenger traffic. In Q1, Pulkovo traffic grew 25% YOY to 2.9m passengers <br/>
