Wizz Air has begun the introduction of its second batch of recent routes from Podgorica this 12 months, following the stationing of a second Airbus A321neo plane at its new base within the Montenegrin capital, with a complete of seventeen new routes launched this summer time. Talking to EX-YU Aviation Information, Wizz Air Community Officer Andras Szabo stated, “Wizz Air is delivering improvement in Montenegro that has been lengthy awaited. We’re providing superb connectivity to assist gas tourism, whereas on the similar time offering financial hyperlinks to main European cities and capitals. We now have enabled a number of instructions of journey by way of this community. The event method and philosophy that Montenegro is following, each within the air transport sector and extra broadly as a rustic, could be very optimistic and helps assist our progress”.
In the course of the 2026 summer time season, Wizz Air has 888.400 seats on the Montenegrin market, or an extra 579.000 seats in comparison with final summer time. The airline has immediately turn into Montenegro’s largest provider in the course of the summer time season, holding a 29.3% capability share. In 2025 alone, the airline welcomed greater than 360.000 passengers on its Podgorica flights.
Requested why the provider had not opted to introduce summer time routes out of Tivat, Mr Szabo famous, “We predominantly function Airbus A321neo plane, whereas Tivat is a really particular airport to serve, being each very constrained and topic to particular operational procedures. This is the reason, for now, Podgorica is the popular platform for us. We might by no means exclude taking a look at Tivat as properly, however at this stage, Podgorica was the logical alternative for us”.
