Wizz Air to restart Tel Aviv flights in August

Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air will resume Israel flights on August 8, regardless of beforehand saying it will not recommence Israel operations till September. Wizz Air will regularly reintroduce Israel providers, beginning with flights from Tel Aviv to Larnaca and Budapest.

Nevertheless, Wizz Air is but to make an official announcement on the matter and flights from Israel can’t but be booked on the airline’s web site.

The choice on the sooner resumption of flights was taken throughout a name between Israel’s Minister of Transport Miri Regev and Wizz Air CEO Joszef Varadi. Israel had hoped for a right away resumption of flights however the airline made clear that plane had already been assigned to different routes for this month. Nevertheless, Minister of Transport officers stated that Wizz Air was ready to make adjustments in its schedule in order that flights may very well be resumed subsequent month.

Wizz Air’s return is main information for Israel’s aviation business, and is anticipated to considerably enhance the variety of flights and permit for better competitors that may assist decrease fares. This can be a extremely popular provider for Israelis – in April 2025 – the final month the corporate operated absolutely in Israel, it was the third hottest provider at Ben Gurion Airport after El Al and Israir with over 8% of the passenger quantity.

Yesterday US provider United Airways introduced that it’ll resume flights from New York/Newark to Tel Aviv beginning July 21, 2025, with the resumption of a second each day flight scheduled for July 22. Tickets for flights to Tel Aviv can be found for buy on United.com.

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