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Wizz Air has carried 1.9 million passengers since it joined the Romanian air transport market three years ago, according to a release issued by the above- mentioned company.

Romania is the fastest growing market for Wizz Air. Three years after its first flight from Targu Mures (central Romania), the company became the leader of the low cost segment in Romania, with a 35 percent market share in April 2009.

During his time span the company mentioned before carried over 1.9 million passengers from and to Romania.
Wizz Air, the biggest low cost air transport company in Central and Eastern Europe, celebrates today the 5th anniversary of its first flight. It carried 18 million passengers all this time.

Since it launched its operations in Romania Wizz Air has permanently invested in the development of services and the transport network, the company’s latest novelties for the local market including the opening of the third operational base in Timisoara (western Romania) in February, the allotment of two new A320 aircraft to the bases in Bucharest and Timisoara (a third one will be allotted to the base in the central Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca in June), the doubling of the transport capability, the development of the team by employing new crew members and by increasing the frequency for several flights.

Currently Wizz Air has flights to 21 countries, along more than 130 routes, the flight network of the aforementioned company being permanently on the increase. In Romania the company mentioned above offers flights on 24 routes, to ten destinations, from Bucharest, Cluj, Targu Mures and Timisoara.