Wizz Air sees summer capacity close to pre-pandemic levels

Wizz Air expects capacity to ramp up to between 90% and 100% of pre-pandemic levels in July and August as summer demand for European travel grows, and this could get an extra boost from further easing of UK restrictions. Britain is set to exempt fully vaccinated travellers from the European Union from quarantine in the coming days, which Wizz Air CE Jozsef Varadi said would help Britain to catch up with the bloc. “Continental Europe has been more open for travel and as a result, demand has reacted much quicker and much more robustly for summer,” Varadi said. Wizz Air shares jumped 6% to 4,927 pence in mid-morning trading on Wednesday on the positive summer outlook. They were also boosted by Varadi saying that Wizz could surpass its pre-pandemic size by the end of the year depending on how restrictions pan out. “We should be getting well above 100%, and personally, I would hope that we will get there before Christmas,” Varadi said.<br/>