Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) has confirmed it will start Frankfurt International operations during the upcoming summer season. The Hungarian LCC said in a statement it would connect the Frankfurt gateway with daily return flights to each of Sofia and Budapest effective May 22 and December 15 respectively.
“We are very happy to welcome Wizz Air, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest low-cost airline, here at Frankfurt Airport with flights beginning in May 2017," Winfried Hartmann, Fraport AG’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Customer Service, said. "The decision by Wizz Air also underscores the growing importance of Frankfurt for the low-cost market.”
Beginning in late March, Ryanair will base a pair of B737-800s at Frankfurt Int'l for use in serving Palma de Mallorca, Malaga, Faro, and Alicante.
In response, Lufthansa Group, which uses Frankfurt as a primary hub, has confirmed it is working on deploying its Eurowings (EW, Düsseldorf) brand to the airport. Eurowings CEO Karl Ulrich Garnadt recently told Reuters that plans were in the pipeline for a possible summer 2018 debut.
