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in the fall, the airline will begin flights to Salzburg, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Malta.

One of the biggest European low-cost airlines — Wizz Air, the Hungarian in September 2020, will open an operational base in St. Petersburg airport “Pulkovo”. The airport will be the first Russian database of the Hungarian carrier and 32nd in the world, said the “Pulkovo”.

Since September 18, 2020, in the open skies regime, the airline will launch five new flights from Petersburg: four flights per week to Salzburg and Copenhagen, and three flights to Oslo, Stockholm and Malta.

Now Wizz Air flies from Pulkovo airport in Budapest, and its English subsidiary Wizz Air UK — to London. In January, the airline announced the launch of the first direct flights in June from St. Petersburg to Bratislava (4 times a week) and Vilnius (2 times a week), from July to Bucharest and Sofia (3 times a week). All these areas are unique, directly in the city of St. Petersburg no fly.

“Pulkovo” — the first and the only Russian airport, where there is a regime removal of restrictions for the flights of the 30 European countries: foreign airlines can fly to St. Petersburg not only from the country of its incorporation. This mode has limited functionality: you can’t fly in one of those cities that already fly from St. Petersburg the Russian carriers. Therefore, direct flights will be closed Vienna, London, Milan, Rome, Paris, nice, Prague, Larnaca, Paphos, Barcelona, Malaga, Berlin, düsseldorf, Hamburg and Munich. Also closed for flights of the city pronounced for outbound travel for Russians, such as the Bulgarian Varna and Burgas.

press-conference in St. Petersburg January 20, Wizz Air CEO Joseph Varadi said that if the experiment is successful and the flights from St. Petersburg will be in demand, Wizz Air will launch new routes. Coming to his time in Vienna and tel Aviv company for 3-4 years has opened the flights from each city about 40 fields, he stressed.

Artem Hirsch