Wizz Air to base 15th Airbus A321neo in Warsaw, cements its position as second-largest airline at WAW
Wizz Air recently opened its base at Warsaw's other airport, Modlin (WMI).
Wizz Air has announced that it will continue expanding at Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW), adding its 15th Airbus A321neo aircraft to its base at the airport and launching five new routes from the Polish capital’s main gateway.
On December 17, 2025, Wizz Air said that it will base its 15th A321neo at WAW, further supporting its continued growth in Warsaw, Poland, where it has expanded significantly over the past few years.
Salvatore Gabriele Imperiale, the Corporate Communications Manager of Wizz Air, reiterated that the addition of yet another A321neo to the airline’s base at WAW underlined its “long-term commitment to Poland and to Warsaw as a key strategic market within our network.”
“By launching five new routes and adding over half a million additional seats next year, we are strengthening connectivity from the Polish capital while continuing to offer our customers affordable and reliable travel options across Europe.”
In March 2026, Wizz Air will begin flying from WAW to Faro Airport (FAO), Menorca Airport (MAH), Lamezia Terme International Airport (SUF), and Tallinn Airport (TLL), and from June 9, 2026, will launch flights to Brașov-Ghimbav International Airport (GHV).
The low-cost carrier has scheduled two weekly departures to FAO, GHV, and MAH, while flights to SUF and TLL will depart WAW three times per week and daily, respectively.
Cirium’s Diio Mi showed that Wizz Air will have competition on one out of the five routes, namely TLL. LOT Polish Airlines, the flag carrier of Poland, has scheduled up to four daily departures between WAW and TLL, including some that are operated by Boeing 737 MAX 8s, throughout 2026.
At the same time, Ryanair has also added flights to FAO from its main base in Warsaw, Poland, Modlin Airport (WMI). During the summer 2026 season, the Irish low-cost carrier should operate up to two weekly flights between WMI and FAO.
Wizz Air’s expansion of its WAW base has been enabled by the fact that it received additional slots at the airport, which has been severely capacity-constrained. According to Airport Coordination Limited (ACL), the slot coordinator of many airports across the globe, Wizz Air and its subsidiaries in Malta and the United Kingdom with separate air operator’s certificates (AOCs), gained a total of 1,300 additional movements from/to WAW during the upcoming summer 2026 season.
As such, the low-cost carrier will have 19,239 allocated movements between March 29, 2026, and October 25, 2026, or 15.2% of the total allocated summer season movements at WAW. No other airline had been allocated more than 10,000 movements, while LOT Polish Airlines is the dominant carrier at the airport with over 73,000 allocated departures and arrivals at WAW, or a share of 58%.
Presumably due to constraints at WAW, Wizz Air has also opened a base at WMI. On December 1, the low-cost carrier announced its base, which includes two A321neos and 11 itineraries from WMI, was now online. Some of Wizz Air’s new routes from WMI have overlap with Ryanair’s itineraries, including flights to Milan Bergamo Airport (BGY), for example.
Rytis Beresnevicius
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