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Hungarian Wizz Air cuts airfares in Norway. Norwegian hopes loyal customers will save them.
LOW PRICE GIANT: Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air is one of the largest in Europe. Now they will be established with a base at Oslo airport with two planes at the beginning. From there, they will fly routes to Bergen four times a day, Tromsø four times a day and Trondheim twice a day.
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Wizz Air announced Tuesday that it will occupy the domestic flight market in Norway. The airline continued with harsh statements on Thursday.
– Wizz Air is happy to have shaken up the market in Norway by offering the lowest prices to Norwegian travelers, Wizz Air writes in a message.
– It will be interesting to see how a near bankrupt company can compete with Wizz Air’s low prices, without cash, and with unit costs twice as high as Wizz Air.
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– Too expensive
Wizz claims Norwegian has no money.
The truth is that the company had a cash balance of just under NOK 5 billion at the end of June. The company itself has said that they spend 300 to 500 million kronor a month more than they receive, and that they will need refinancing by the end of the first quarter of 2021.
Ticket prices for Wizz Air will start at 199 kr.
On Wednesday, Norwegian launched a campaign with flights at the same price in Norway.
– Norwegian’s recent price drop shows that consumers in Norway have become very overloaded as a result of the market duopoly, writes Wizz Air.
Wizz Air writes that they can sell cheaper airline tickets thanks to “lower costs as well as greener aircraft, which is the result of Europe’s youngest short-haul fleet.”
Wizz Air exclusively uses the latest and most efficient Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft models. This is also the type of aircraft that SAS is gradually introducing and is also used by many other airlines.
– Many loyal Norwegian customers
Norwegian Chief Information Officer Lasse Sandaker-Nielsen says they have no need to comment on the proposal, but can say that in recent days they have experienced “growing and great interest” in their flights between Oslo and Bergen, Oslo and Trondheim and Oslo and Tromsø.
“It could be a sign that there are many loyal Norwegian customers who want to fly with a Norwegian company that ensures the maintenance of critical infrastructure across the country, from Kristiansand in the south to Svalbard in the north,” Sandaker-Nielsen writes in a SMS to E24.
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