European low-cost airline Wizz Air has exclusively revealed more details about its plans for the company’s incoming fleet of Airbus A321XLR aircraft, the first of which is due to be delivered to the carrier in late February 2025.

In a special event held in London on September 10, 2024, the airline group’s CEO József Váradi gave those in attendance further insight into Wizz Air’s strategy for its long-awaited extended range narrowbodies. Váradi confirmed that the carrier’s plans for its A321XLRs will include longer-range routes from its base at London-Gatwick Airport (LGW), starting with a daily service to Jeddah (JED) in Saudia Arabia with the first flight leaving the London airport on March 31, 2025.

Váradi confirmed that the route will be the first operated by the carrier with its new A321XLRs and that the slots are already secured for the operation to begin in March 2025 as planned.

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