Wizz Air is a low-cost airline founded in Hungary in 2003. It operated its first flight on 19 May 2004 from Katowice, Poland, and its operational headquarters is in Budapest. The group's holding company, Wizz Air Holdings Plc, is listed on the London Stock Exchange, and flights are operated by Wizz Air Hungary, Wizz Air UK and Wizz Air Malta. Wizz Air is not a member of an airline alliance.
Instead of a single hub, Wizz Air bases aircraft at dozens of airports, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe, with bases in Italy, the United Kingdom and Cyprus as well. Budapest is its home base, and its largest bases include London Luton, Bucharest, Warsaw, Rome Fiumicino and Milan Malpensa. From these bases it flies about 200 destinations in more than 50 countries, mostly point-to-point leisure and visiting-friends routes.
The fleet is made up entirely of Airbus A320-family aircraft, mostly the A321neo.