Which? Journal’s ‘Worst Airline in Europe’, Wizz Air, has simply guess on extending their passenger expertise to long-haul flights.
Beginning in March 2025, London Gatwick to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the Hungarian funds airline will later add Milan to Abu Dhabi as properly.
Like different so-called funds airways, they’ve been working with the identical no-frills enterprise mode in Europe, providing short-haul flights with out added extras resembling in-flight meals and extra snug seat house.
Now, the Hungarian airline plans to shift that short-haul expertise to rather more gruelling distances. CEO József Váradi may be very conscious of this gamble, saying he hopes cost-conscious prospects are prepared to ‘endure the ache’. The seats can be in the identical format as these on short-haul flights and received’t recline or include any options resembling onboard leisure or included meals and drinks. ‘Fifteen to twenty years in the past, I believed three hours would check passenger tolerance,’ stated Váradi at a press convention, however the firm is hoping travellers have modified their opinions and have gotten used to the no-thrills expertise.
Their announcement has come concurrently Airbus’s launch of a brand new fleet able to for much longer flights of as much as 8 hours. The airline has been ranked Europe’s worst by Which? for the final two years and just lately solely acquired only one star for seat consolation and cabin surroundings. Which? discovered that 44 p.c of passengers surveyed reported some kind of downside with their journey.