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Wizz Air

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Investments
    Directors’ Deals: Wizz boss offloads shares as reported loss doubles

    Budget carrier struggles — but continues expansion plans

  • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
    Wizz Air predicts more losses before travel picks up for summer

    Pandemic and travel curbs hit low-cost airline’s balance sheet but it expects rebound this year

    Jozsef Varadi stands in front of a Wizz Air plane in 2018
  • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
    Wizz Air snaps up Gatwick slots from Norwegian

    London-listed Hungarian airline strikes deal as part of effort to challenge Ryanair

    Passengers disembark from a Wizz Air plane in Hungary
  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    Wizz warns of return to losses, despite first profit since start of pandemic

    Airline says it will have to cut ticket prices to encourage people to fly this winter

    A Wizz aircraft at an airport in Debrecen, Hungary
  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    Airlines
    Buffett of the airline business is in for the long haul

    Bill Franke is considered by some to be the most successful air travel investor in history

  • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
    Inside BusinessHelen Thomas
    EasyJet’s cash call leaves repair job to do

    Size of airline’s rights issue has prompted questions about its strategy

  • Saturday, 11 September, 2021
    Airlines
    O’Leary says Wizz Air and easyJet must merge or be taken over

    Ryanair boss sees airline sector as ripe for consolidation after being hit hard by the pandemic

  • Friday, 10 September, 2021
    Airlines
    European airlines jostle for position as they look beyond pandemic

    Wizz’s bid for rival easyJet signals potential power shift in Covid-battered market

    Passengers disembark from a Wizz Air jet
  • Thursday, 9 September, 2021
    easyJet PLC
    EasyJet rejects takeover approach from rival Wizz Air

    Low-cost UK carrier refuses to rule out future M&A, indicating it might become a target or an acquirer

    Passenger aircraft, operated by EasyJet  nd Wizz Air on the tarmac at Luton Airport
  • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
    Wizz Air shareholders back £100m pay plan for CEO Varadi

    Only small proportion of investors could vote as London-based investors excluded after Brexit diluted their rights

    Wizz plane
  • Friday, 23 July, 2021
    Executive Pay
    Wizz Air faces investor backlash over £100m bonus plan for boss

    Investment Association issues red-top warning and advisers urge shareholders to reject the plan

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    Helen Thomas
    How Wizz Air’s bumper pay package is a sign of the times

    Airline has a better claim to be creating a genuinely high-risk, high-reward pay plan than most

    Wizz Air flight taking off from Vienna Schwechat airport
  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    Airlines
    Can Wizz challenge Ryanair as king of Europe’s skies?

    Hungarian carrier’s breakneck expansion threatens Irish rival in battle for low-cost market

    Jozsef Varadi and Michael O’Leary
  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    Coronavirus
    Coronavirus: Big variation in vaccination rates across US ahead of July 4 — as it happened
  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    Lex
    Wizz Air/CEO pay: economy airline, first-class rewards Premium content

    Steep remuneration for Jozsef Varadi can only infuriate the airline’s other stakeholders

    A Wizz Air plane on the tarmac
  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    Wizz Air offers chief Varadi £100m bonus in return for rapid growth

    Boss of low-cost airline must more than double share price to earn one of UK’s biggest payouts

    Jozsef Varadi
  • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
    Bryce Elder
    Wizz Air takes on the airline zombies created by state aid

    Problems among competitors are opportunity for low-cost carrier to spend on expansion

    Wizz Air net losses totalled €576m for the year to March but €84m of cash burn in the first three months of 2021 was easily absorbed.
  • Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
    Wizz Air warns of full-year losses as pandemic bites

    Low-cost European airline remains ‘cautiously optimistic’ despite recovery starting later than expected

    A Wizz Air plane on a tarmac
  • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
    Wizz Air expects sluggish travel recovery in late summer

    Cautious outlook suggests travel curbs could wreak havoc with peak season

    A Wizz Air jet in Budapest
  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    Investments
    Rentokil North America boss offloads £1.2m in shares

    Company set to outline how it can benefit from greater interest in hygiene post-pandemic

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Investments
    Wizz co-founder capitalises on share resurgence

    Airline is well placed to exploit an increase in passengers numbers, but uncertainties linger

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    LexAirlines
    EasyJet/Wizz Air: long haul Premium content

    A less optimistic view on the near term means easyJet’s share price trails that of Wizz Air

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    European companies
    Wizz Air’s debut bond takes off in sign of hot debt markets

    Airline is latest in string of European groups to lock-in low rates at start of 2021

  • Saturday, 2 January, 2021
    Airlines
    European airlines demand cuts to landing fees

    Ryanair and Wizz Air want discounts but airports warn they would be unsustainable

  • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
    LexBrexit
    Brexit/airline shares: no frills and no votes Premium content

    Lost voting rights are just another of the mounting costs UK businesses will have to bear

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