Centralwings pull LBA

I’m getting to like Wizzair.
I’ve rebooked for similar dates for 2 pax ret from LPL to WAW for £86

From their website-

“Wizz Air rescues cancelled Centralwings passengers

Wizz Air, the largest low fare – low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe offers free tickets to Centralwings passengers whose flights were recently cancelled.

Wizz Air offers free tickets (only taxes and charges are to be paid) on Katowice-Milan, Warsaw-Liverpool and the recently announced Katowice-Doncaster Sheffield routes to passengers who hold reservation on Centralwings’ Warsaw-Milan, Wroclaw-Milan and Warsaw-Leeds Bradford flights which are suddenly discontinued by Centralwings this month.

In the period between 11 May and 16 May 2006 the stranded passengers of Centralwings can book free seats on Wizz Air’s flights by only paying taxes and charges.

Bookings can be made online at wizzair.com, through call center (+48 22 351 9499) and with the Wizz Air ticketing agents of the respective airports. The offer is subject to the actual schedule and seat availability of Wizz Air.

Cancelled Centralwings flights Book on Wizz Air flights
Warsaw-Leeds Bradford Warsaw-Liverpool
Katowice-Doncaster Sheffield
Warsaw-Milan
Wroclaw-Milan Katowice-Milan/Bergamo

Wizz Air has been continuously building its market presence in Poland since the country’s EU accession. This summer the airline is increasing its capacity by 50% compared to the same period last year, adding 15 new routes and offering a total of 33 routes from 5 Polish airports including Warsaw, Katowice, Gdansk, Poznan and Wroclaw to Polish passengers and to those who wish to visit Poland from all over Europe.

Wizz Air is the largest low fare – low cost airline in Poland with 40% market share in the low cost airline sector in 2005. The airline has been voted – for the second consecutive year – the best low fare airline in Poland on pasazer.com, Poland’s largest travel portal.

“The sudden route cancellations by Centralwings tell me that the strong airlines are getting stronger and the weak ones are getting marginal. Wizz Air has been demonstrating its commitment to Poland and to stranded Polish travelers on numerous occasions. People can always count on us.” – said József Váradi, Chief Executive Officer of Wizz Air.

Rebooking:

To begin booking your Wizz Air flight, simply insert your Centralwings reservation code and flight date in the boxes below.

Centralwings reservation number:

Date of flight (yyyy-mm-dd):

booking
Terms and conditions:

Booking period: May 11-16, 2006
Travel period: May 22-Oct 28, 2006
Taxes and charges must be paid
Free seats are subject to availability
Centralwings reservation code will be recorded when the booking is made and checked at the Wizz Air check-in”

( Wizz Air have today announced DSA-Katowice )

Well at least the two destinations suit each other.

Leeds (DSA) – Krakow (Katowice)

Wizz Air have today announced DSA-Katowice

From LBA website dated 9/5/06-

Centralwings Announcement
9 May 2006

Centralwings will cease operations at Leeds Bradford Airport as of May 25th. This decision has been taken due to the airline’s expansion into new market’s and fleet constraints. Anyone who has an enquiry about their booking will need to contact their travel agent or Centralwings direct on 00 48 22 558 00 45

ENDS

For enquiries regarding this story please contact:
Your travel agent or Centralwings direct on 00 48 22 558 00 45

I suppose it could Humberside. They have that many aircraft being delivered they have to put the somewhere.

Talk is that Tinkers Air is doing really well on its Polish routes out of EMA and that in addition to the two routes we already have they will announce three more to Poland shortly.

Could that mean an extra FR aircraft based at NEMA?

It certainly did – summer only, until about 6/7 years ago, via Birmingham (1 hour to refuel, drop off, pick up, and to practice your French – otherwise the cabin crew would ignore you), and then back to YYZ – on a Tues from memory. AT was/is always a joy to fly with.

A blow but i could see it happening. Stuff like this does happen at LBA, we have lost SweFly, Air Transat etc in past 5-6 years.

Air Transat operated from LBA?

Paul

Talk is that Tinkers Air is doing really well on its Polish routes out of EMA and that in addition to the two routes we already have they will announce three more to Poland shortly. So I’m surprised that CentralWings might not be doing too well out of LBA. Hopefully the May date will pass with a “continuing service” decision.

Andy

Yeah one of our college teachers owned it. Think its safe to say he’s still bitter about its failure and Jet2 to this day… 😉

…..yes and ask him if he and his brother have had any success in any of the business they have ventured into? lol

Thanks for the post mate, let’s hope they keep the flights going!

Hi everyone
Regular viewer – First time post
Guess who is due to fly with centralwings from LBA to WAW in July. Guessed right.
Having read today’s posts, I rang centralwings and the rep confirmed that all flights after May “are on hold”, and a decision will be made on either 9/10 May.
Hope this info helps.

stazi

Remember the so called Planet Air that was going to have 1 MD-83 😀
Imagine if that went ahead and they had their own plane lol
There would of been alot of delays 😀

Yeah one of our college teachers owned it. Think its safe to say he’s still bitter about its failure and Jet2 to this day… 😉

Well it will be a dissapointment for LBA. But I think they have their aircraft over utilised. They have 4 routes into DUB with at least 2 flights a day somedays 4 and the amount of lenghty delays they have is ridicolous.

They need to cut down on routes and give their aircraft some down time and look after the routes which are making money.

Im not saying LBA-Poland isnt making money but Ireland-Poland is BIG business and the last thing they need is long delays espeically now that Ryanair are competeing on the routes.

On a side not WizzAir have just announced they will fly 3 times weekly betwwen Cork and Katowice.

Tell me about it, incredibly unreliable!! Although in fairness they have been doing alright from EDI since they got their latest B737.

Well Planetair did go ahead, using AEU 737 to AGP, Hola 737 to PMI, LTE/Spanair A321’s to Tenerife, and Air Luxor A321 to Faro!

They were due to operate Finnair 757’s to ACE and TFS the year after, wish it would have happened, Jet2 were just to strong with them with frequencies/timings.

Remember the so called Planet Air that was going to have 1 MD-83 😀
Imagine if that went ahead and they had their own plane lol
There would of been alot of delays 😀

And we have gained Jet2, Astraeus, Air Southwest etc etc. LBA is DEFINITLY going in the right direction.

A blow but i could see it happening. Stuff like this does happen at LBA, we have lost SweFly, Air Transat etc in past 5-6 years.

They’ve just started advertising in West Yorkshire on buses also! Was following a bus with a Centralwings advert on the back, and a Jet2 advert for Milan on the side yesterday!

The loads from DUB are also amazing and they have just started advertising on buses etc. I do think its to allow more down time for its aircraft to try and reduce the number of tech delays.