Wizz Air Abu Dhabi adds Maldives and Kuwait to its growing route network

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi adds Maldives and Kuwait, with flights starting in October.This means Wizz Air Group will have 28 winters route From the UAE capital, although there will be more to come.like all routes it operates Abu Dhabi Units, these two increases will use 239 A321neos.

Wizz Air adds Maldives and Kuwait

The first to start is Male, Maldives, which launched on October 4 with flights every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.This will be Wizz Air’s second destination in the South Asia After Matala, but Sri Lanka routes have ceased sales, possibly partly due to fuel-related issues in the country.

Male’ will add 1x daily Kuwait Service on October 30, Northern Hemisphere same-day airlines switch to winter timetables. Kuwait is Wizz Air’s latest Middle East destination after Dammam. The schedule is as follows, all times in local time:

• Abu Dhabi to Male: 5W7105, 10:25-16:45 (5h 20m block time) from October 4th
• Male to Abu Dhabi: 5W7106, 17:40-22:30 (5h 50m)
• Abu Dhabi to Kuwait: 5W7021, 19:50-20:40 (1h 50m); from October 30th; once a day
• Kuwait to Abu Dhabi: 5W7022, 21:25-23:55 (1h 40m)

Wizz Air’s Abu Dhabi network covers its units in the UAE and Hungary for the week beginning 1 November 2022. Image: GCMap.

Both will have competition

Not surprisingly, both routes will compete head-to-head. From the week of 1 November, Wizz Air will oppose the 1 daily Etihad to Male flight, which will use the B787-9. This will be the second airline to fly to Kuwait, joining Etihad’s 2 daily flights (A320). Kuwait Airways itself no longer serves it.

Of course, in this case, “competition” is meaningless. Wizz Air will be the only low-cost alternative on both routes, but airlines won’t be competing to a great extent. As always, the addition of ULCC will be less about replacing airlines and more focused on growing passenger demand.

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi’s two new routes will continue to meet point-to-point demand. By comparison, around 72% of Etihad’s Kuwaiti passengers transited through Abu Dhabi in 2019, and around 80% in Male’. Photo: Wizz Air.

This makes 28 routes

In the first week of November, Wizz Air will have 28 Abu Dhabi routes through its UAE and Hungary units. About 16 of its 28 routes (57%) will not have direct competition.

According to its booking engine, there will be 99 departures or an average of 14 per day. notes That’s different from what OAG and Google Flights said, suggesting layoffs may be imminent.

While the median weekly service on its routes is 3 times, Bahrain, Baku, Kuwait, Muscat and Tel Aviv will double the daily service. Its network is broken down alphabetically as follows:

1. Alexander port: 4 times a week; Against Abu Dhabi Airways in the week starting 1 November (3 times a week)
2. Almaty: 3 times a week; no direct competition
3. amman: 2 times a week; Royal Jordanian (8 times a week), Etihad Airways (1 times a day)
4. Aqaba: 3 times a week; no direct competition
5. Athens: 2 times a week; Etihad Airways (1 daily)
6. Bahrain: 1 time per day; Gulf Air (26 weekly), Etihad Airways (2 daily), Arab Abu Dhabi (1 daily)
7. Baku: 1 time per day; Air Arabia Abu Dhabi (3 times a week)
8. Barry: 2 times a week; no direct competition
9. Belgrade: 4 times a week; no direct competition
10. Bucharest: 2 times a week; no direct competition
11. Budapest: 2 times a week; no direct competition
12. catania: 2 times a week; no direct competition
13. Cluj-Napoca: once a week; no direct competition
14. Dammam: 4 times a week; Etihad Airways (2 times a day)
15. Katowice: 2 times a week; no direct competition
16. Krakow: 2 times a week; no direct competition
17. Kutaisi: 5 times a week; no direct competition
18. Kuwait: 1 time per day; Etihad Airways (2 times a day)
19. male: 4 times a week; Etihad Airways (1 daily)
20. Muscat: 1 time per day; Etihad Airways (2 times a day), Air Arabia Abu Dhabi (1 times a day)
21. Nur-Sultan: 3 times a week; no direct competition
22. sarajevo: 4 times a week; no direct competition
23. Sophia: 2 times a week; no direct competition
24. Sohag: 3 times a week; Arabian Air Abu Dhabi (2 times a week)
25. Tel Aviv: 1 time per day; Etihad Airways (1 daily)
26. Tirana: 3 times a week; no direct competition
27. Vienna: 3 times a week; Etihad Airways (5 times a week)
28. Yerevan: 3 times a week; no direct competition

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