I wonder if they currently have a shortage of planes, as when I flew with them a few weeks ago back from Budapest, I was watching on various online tracking services and they were running loads of empty services, and I can’t believe any airline, let alone an ultra low cost carrier, would do that.
My service back was from Budapest to Gatwick, and when I looked early afternoon the plane had been given a schedule that would have been impossible to meet, yet the airline said my plane (at about 8pm) was still on time. The schedule has the plane flying empty from Katowice to Budapest, then doing a round trip to London, before doing a second round trip to London which would have been mine.
The schedule put in for the empty flight would have meant the first passenger working of the day was late, but they were still saying it was on time, until 4 hours prior, when it was suddenly two hours late. The plane even ended up leaving over an hour late from Katowice.
After that, the delays just snowballed. They even ended up swapping our plane (which was 2 H 50 M late by that point) onto a flight to Luton which was even later than ours, meaning our delay was extended as they had to run a plane empty from somewhere else in Europe!
Despite saying “boarding” on the screens, they even announced a flight to Rome had been cancelled!
They seem to have 40 Minute turnarounds which seems fairly standard for Ryanair and EasyJet, but doesn’t allow for any time to be made up.
Almost every other customer in the food court was paying with WizzAir meal vouchers!
