Wizz Air suspends flights to Warsaw Modlin airport
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
17.12.2012 17:03
Low cost airline Wizz Air is suspending connections with the newly opened Warsaw Modlin Airport owing to anxieties over landing conditions.
Photo: wikipedia
Photo: wikipedia
Connections will be transferred to Warsaw's Chopin International Airport as of midnight on Monday 17 December, yet the airline forecasts that it may return to Modlin as early as 6 January.
Daniel de Carvalho, corporate communications manager at Wizz Air, wants Modlin to cover the cost of the transfers, according to Poland's TVN 24 news channel.
“The airport in Modlin was paralysed once again on Sunday 16 December until dawn on 17 December, due to a problems resulting from a lack of an instrument landing system (ILS),” he said, as quoted by the television channel.
De Carvalho is nevertheless confident that the the transfers “will allow for the normal functioning of winter connections during peak holiday period.”
Modlin airport, located 35 kilometres north Warsaw city centre, was created on a former military airfield and launched in July this year.
The airport was supposed to provide a cheaper alternative to Chopin Airport, with Ryanair and Wizz Air backing Modlin owing to the latter's competitive operating costs. (nh)