Hungarian-based low-cost Wizz Air will not be using the re-opened Modlin airport, 45 kilometres from Warsaw, the airline’s CEO Jozsef Varadi has said.

Wizz Air CEO Jozsef Varadi in Warsaw, Wednesday: photo - PAP/Paweł Supernak

"We have lost confidence in Modlin airport,” Varadi said at a press conference on Wednesday in the Polish capital, after the airport was closed for over half a year due to cracks appearing on the runway, despite opening as Warsaw’s second airport only last July.

Wizz Air have announced that they will be remaining at Warsaw’s main Chopin airport for their low-cost operations, in what is a major blow to Modlin’s business model, which relies heavily on the use of low-cost airlines.

Research by Wizz Air - which announced this week that they would be launching a new route starting in October between Katowice airport in south west Poland and Tel Aviv – shows that Modlin is not a popular airport with Poles.

“More than 70 percent were dissatisfied with the time and cost of getting to Modlin, and more than 60 percent were in favour of [us] staying at Chopin airport,” Jozsef Varadi said.

Modlin was given the green light to re-open for business after extensive work on the runway on 3 July. (pg)



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