Monarch Aircraft Engineering has inked maintenance contracts with Flyglobespan, Zoom Airline and Air Greenland. It has also uncovered its plans to set up a line maintenance facility in Kiev, according to the reports by Flight International. This deal could prove effective for many airlines as they would be able to get modern maintenance facility for their aircrafts.

Monarch has submitted an application for Ukrainian CAA permission to set up a line maintenance facility in the capital, Kiev, after a deal to offer line maintenance for Wizz Air's intended new Ukrainian domestic services.

Operating with a single A320 in the beginning, Wizz Air plans to expand the Kiev operation to support 6 flying machines by the year 2010. So, it is quite obvious that the airlines would need a good maintenance line from other companies.

Ukraine's first low fares carrier, Wizz Air Ukraine, said that it would begin operating an opening network of 7 Ukrainian domestic routes from its base at Kiev Boryspil Airport on the 11th of July this year. This is a surprising move for many passengers as the news of airlines downing many of the flights are high these days. Any airlines opening new route is quite surprising for them.

Wiz Air is popular in offering discounted and low fare routes to its passengers and no wonder that air travellers would be delighted to hear about some of the hot favourite destinations offered by Wizz Air.

The carrier will offer low cost services from Kiev Boryspil Airport to Odessa, Simferopol, Lviv, Zaporozhye and Kharkov. So, passengers would be able to avail tickets to any of these destinations at quite a low price though the fuel cost is rising and lots of airlines are increasing the fare prices. It can be expected that if the routes have a good output, the carrier would be able to offer the low prices till quite a while.

Wizz Air, Hungarian low-fares carrier is pushing its service from Coventry to Gdansk-the northern Polish city-back. Passengers of Wizz Air would need to take care about this fact as they won't be able to make more reservations for this route.

The carrier has started its operations on the route from Coventry to Gdansk just two months ago, but now it says it is suspending the service due to pressure on its fleet brought about by the setting up of a brand new base in Kiev.

The budget carrier had operated a three times a week service (on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) to the historic Polish city, but the coming Tuesday, the 13th of May, will be its last flight on the route. So, passengers who would like to travel on this route after 13th of May would need to make some alternate arrangements for the same.

During its Kiev-Odessa-Kiev demonstration flight, Ukraine's low fares carrier, Wizz Air Ukraine, said that it was going to operate its services on international routes to London Luton, Milan Bergamo and Dortmund from its base at Kiev later this year. This is welcome news for passengers of Wizz Air, as they would be to take international flights with the airlines.

The budget carrier will offer air travel opportunities to a large number of Ukrainian travellers and hundreds of thousands of students and workers who are living in a foreign country to make their journey back home-double benefit for the passengers and no wonder that the customer base of the airlines would also increase.

The new services are scheduled to begin on the 15th of September and will complement the domestic network of the low cost carrier.

This week, Wizz Air, the low-fares carrier based in Hungary, has marked its fourth anniversary. The budget carrier officially celebrated its fourth year of operating services on the 19th of May.

The first flight of Wizz Air took off from Katowice International Airport and in the year 2007 it served around 4.2 million travelers, an increase of 40 per cent on the previous year. No wonder that in the coming time, the airlines would be able to take up the number of passengers to a new height.

And, in the current year, the carrier expects that it would serve more than 6 million customers-a reflection of what they would achieve in future.

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At a recent press conference, Wizz Air Ukraine, the first ever low-cost airline of Ukraine announced its decision to open its new base in Kiev Boryspil Airport on 11 July 2008. Initially, the airline will operate seven Ukranian domestic routes from this new base.

From Kiev Boryspil Airport, the low fare air services will be offered to destinations including Lviv, Odessa, Simferopol, Kharkov and Zaporozhye. The Ukranian travelers will also be able to benefit from the connections offered by the airline from Lviv and Kharkov to Simferopol. Notably, Simferopol is a popular Krym resort.

Tickets are being sold for these routes from 24th April and the all-inclusive fares start from as low as UAH 79. The Ukrainian public will be able to benefit from the brand new Airbus A320 aircraft featuring 180 leather seats besides the low-fares and the convenient air travel experience offered by the airline.

Through an announcement made recently, Wizz Air, the largest low-fare airline based in the Central and the Eastern Europe has declared that it will move its flight services offered in the Budapest - Transylvania route to Tirgu Mures Airport from Cluj. The shifting will see the flights being operated from this new base of Cluj from 15th May. Notably, Cluj is the newest base of the airline in the region.

Way back in July 2006, Wizz Air started operating from Tirgu Mures Airport. The airline decided to shift its operation from Transylvania to Cluj in November 2007. On the whole, the new base of Cluj had been very successful for the airline. However, the experience of the airline from both the bases clearly reveals that Tirgu Mures proved to be more popular with passengers looking forward to travel to and from Budapest. Following this market trend analysis, the airline has announced the recent decision to shift to the Tirgu Mures base from Cluj.

As the change of schedule comes into effect, the airline said that it would make the necessary arrangements to individually inform all the passengers who have already booked for Budapest - Cluj flights. Once the Budapest-Tirgu Mures flights start operating, there will be three services a week. In addition, the timings for the new route will remain the same as it is scheduled presently from Budapest. The move does not affect the airline's Cluj expansion plans. 

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost carrier based in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has received two different 'Best Airline' accolades within a span of just a fortnight.

Readers of pasazer.com, one of the leading online travel portals in Poland, voted the largest low fares airline based in CEE as the 'best budget airline'.

About twenty-five per cent of respondents' nameed Wizz Air as the best low-cost airline in the country, which helped it to gain the prestigious award for the fourth year running was achieved.

Now, passengers travelling with Wizz Air services to land at Luton Airport will be able to make bookings for an onward bus transfer to London's Victoria Station when they buy tickets for their flights.

Wizz Air, the low fares operator has introduced the new option in its flight booking engine, offering its customers an additional feature of making reservations for a seat on the bus service from Luton and.

This is a very good offer for passengers looking to get to the Airport. A service from Luton Airport to London is truly a brilliant idea and lots of passengers would be benefited by this service.

Wizz Air declared a range of expansion from its bases in Hungary and Poland. The airline will elaborate its Budapest operations in the coming summer with the addition of 15 new weekly flights in comparison to that in summer 2007 or with 27% additional capability. The airline will increase its occurrence on most of its present routes by adding Goteborg, Oslo-Torp and Venice-Treviso to its Budapest network by again bringing the famous summer seasonal flights to Bulgaria (Bourgas and Varna), Spain (Barcelona-Girona and Palma de Mallorca) and Greece (Corfu, Rhodes and Heraklion).

Simultaneously the carrier declared that it would base an additional Airbus A320 aircraft to its biggest base in Katowice which will be Wizz Air's fifth aircraft based in Katowice and twelfth in Poland. Increasing the frequencies on various present routes it would fly its seasonal flights to Bourgas, Heraklion and Barcelona Girona. The airline will increase its summer program by launching Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast as a new holiday destination.

Wizz Air will follow its elaboration with its Gdansk base by raising the occurrence on its various present routes and commencing new flights in summer season 2008. Getting into the Finnish market the airline will commence Gdansk-Turku flight in April 2008 bringing the long awaited Gdansk-Barcelona/Girona flight from June 2008.

Wizz Air, the low-cost carrier, has revealed that it will begin operating new services to Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood Airport from Warsaw.

The airline will start operating the new flights from 1st April, and offer a three times a week service. The price of tickets for the new service will be starting at just £16.99 one-way.

Robin Hood Airport's managing director, David Ryall, said, "We are delighted with the performance of Wizz Air at Robin Hood Airport. Warsaw is an important business capital, and businesses from across the Airport Region will benefit from the introduction of this key European city route".

New flights have been introduced by Wizz Air from the capital Sofia to the coastal town of Varna. It is the only low-cost airline to act for domestic flights in Bulgaria. This is a very good offer made by the no-frills airlines for its passengers, as now they can avail the services while visiting Varna from the capital city of Sofia.

The first flight will take off on 12 July, 2008 and will function four times a week. Regular one-way fares begin from EUR 9.99, inclusive of all taxes and charges. A new A320 aircraft will be drawn by Wizz Air to expand its Sofia base commencing from July 2008. You can plan your trips according to the schedule offered by the airlines.

It will make an addition of four international routes to its timetable, flying from Sofia to Milan-Bergamo, Valencia, Barcelona and Turkey's Izmir, the chief low-fare route from Bulgaria to a country outside the European Union.

In an interesting move, Budget airline Wizz Air has introduced a new service flying between the UK and Bucharest, the capital of Romania. Scheduled to fly three times a week between the city and John Lennon Airport, Liverpool, the new service seems to promise a boost the Romanian market's investment prospects. 

Commenting on the new launch, the managing director of the portal Neil Pakey remarked that the given route to Eastern Europe had always proved greatly popular and the chances are more that the Bucharest flight will follow suit. This should be an interesting news for passengers who fly frequently to Romanian capital. They could also expect that the airlines would be offering them more such services by starting more flights on the same route. The airlines expect that it will receive good customer base on this new route.

Natasa Kazmer, Wizz Air's personnel said, "We are glad to expand our network from Liverpool to a new EU member state."

With an initiative first of its kind in the industry, Wizz Air is to introduce additional charges for allocated seating. So far, the airline is operating a priority boarding service with a charge of £2 per passenger to board the aircraft before others. With the new initiative, the emergency-row seats - in rows 12 and 13 that are in high demand will no longer be available to the passengers on a first-come first served basis.
With effect from next week, the seats in the exit row are to cost an extra £3.50 for online booking or £7 for booking at the airport. In an industry that is constantly exploring new initiatives to raise revenue, this move is expected to trigger a worrying model, and perhaps a decrease in customer base of the airlines.

However, recently while introducing a fee of £2 for checking in at the airport, Ryanair commented that the airline has no intentions to follow the trend started by Wizz Air. Ryanair confirmed, "We already sell priority boarding and we'll be sticking with that."

In addition, EasyJet is also holding back from this trend for the time being, saying that it is not going to introduce additional charges for allocated seating as of its present position. However, Wizz Air is going to become the first of its kind airlines, and perhaps in future, more airlines would join the suit and introduce similar types of charges for allocated seating.

Passengers will now be able to make bookings for the most comfortable seats in advance with the launch of Wizz Air's new service enhancement.

The airline's new service enhancement successfully underwent a week of testing on the London-Budapest route, and the carrier now offers comfort seats with additional legroom in rows 12 and 13 to its customers flying from October 29 on the entire route network.

Passengers can take advantage of the service by simply logging onto wizzair.com and can make their purchase. This new feature is very convenient for online purchase, and it is expected that passengers would find it very helpful for them.