Wizz Air expands Belgrade base, to become second largest carrier in Serbia

Wizz Air continues to expand its presence in eastern Europe with the announcement it will expand its Belgrade base over the next nine months with the launch of five new routes. The Hungarian low-cost carrier will also increase capacity on six of its existing routes from the Serbian capital. This will see competition with Serbian national carrier Jat Airways heat up as Wizz Air becomes the second largest carrier in the nation.

Wizz Air originally established its Belgrade base in Apr-2011, when it based one A320 at the airport and began serving five new routes - Brussels, Brussels Charleroi, Eindhoven, Stockholm Arlanda and Stockholm Skavsta. These joined its existing services to Belgrade from Dortmund, London Luton, Rome Fiumicino and Malmo. The five new routes to be added over the next nine months as a second A320 is introduced at Wizz Air's Belgrade base include Skopje, Mulhouse/Basel, Oslo Sandefjord, Rhodes and Kerkyra.