Wizz continues post-crisis push with St Petersburg base

Wizz Air has continued its post-crisis base expansion by disclosing plans to open a single-aircraft operation from St Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport. The new St Petersburg base, the airline’s first in Russia, will begin in mid-September with the launch of five new routes. It will be the airline’s 32nd base - and the fifth Wizz has announced in the past three weeks - as it steps up its post-crisis network plans Wizz will base one Airbus A320 at St Petersburg and launch new routes from the airport serving the Scandinavian capitals of Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm, as well Malta and Salzburg in Austria. ”Wizz Air has a long-term strategic interest in the Russian market and we are looking forward to welcoming passengers on board our young and reliable fleet,” says airline CE Jozsef Varadi. St Petersburg, from which Wizz operated flights to Budapest and London Luton prior to the coronavirus crisis, is one of the three Russian destinations Wizz serves, alongside Moscow Vnukovo and Kazan.<br/>