Wizz Air is betting on Turin, which from September will grow to be the Hungarian group’s seventh operational base in Italia, the fortieth in Europe, with two plane assigned to the Piedmontese airport and a million travellers within the forecast, with seven new routes primarily in Spain (Bilbao served for the primary time), 80 direct jobs and about 700 in induced jobs.
The Hungarian group has seen the quantity of passengers double since 2019, from 41 million to 80 million, the latter being the visitors estimate for 2026, with 40 bases working in Europe. In 2025 alone, Wizz Air operated greater than 2,100 flights from Turin, carrying a whole of greater than 450,000 passengers, a quantity that’s set to double because of the new initiative on the airport.
This is a strategic step that guarantees to ‘change the tempo of Turin airport and will represent an unprecedented aspect of development sooner or later,’ underlines Sagat CEO Andrea Andorno. At the Turin airport, recalled CEO Andorno, ‘we make investments 10 million a 12 months for an airport that isn’t but saturated, however which desires to be able to welcome new initiatives akin to these of Wizz Air and which has the ambition of intercepting growing shares of outgoing and incoming visitors within the North West space’.
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With a fleet of 40 plane based mostly within the nation and a market share of 11%, Wizz Air is now the second largest provider in Italia, aiming to supply 27 million seats by 2026 and additional strengthen its presence within the nation. The airline will function a whole of 16 routes to eight international locations from Turin, providing nearly 1.3 million seats on the market.
Turin airport is experiencing a development section in visitors and passenger volumes, pushed by low-cost airways. Ryanair has introduced a third plane for Turin, beginning within the coming weeks, and now comes Wizz Air’s initiative. The airport has for the primary time exceeded 5 million passengers in 2025 and 2026 guarantees to see visitors numbers improve additional because of the influence of new plane.
