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Sep 10, 2026
Wizz Air to return to UAE
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Brandy ScottHOST
Okay, so what is that plan in terms of how many of those 49 weekly flights, how many of those 12 routes will be in and out of the UAE?

Ian MalinGUEST
We had a bigger program, and as you mentioned, we had an airline based in Abu Dhabi last year, which we pulled out of last year.

Brandy ScottHOST
flying and how many of those lower cost tickets can you make available given the ability or the need to make money as an airline?
Live from the Nice Conference: Ian Malin, CCO of Wizz Air
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Richard MoffatHOST
Do you understand that impact? How well do you understand that? And does that give you an edge when you're looking at new markets that we know if we take whiz here, we think there'll be an effect that actually no one else is looking at? It's something that we're getting

Ian MalinGUEST
We had a lot of airports being developed and we were able to fill them up as soon as we could go there and deploy capacity now.

Ian MalinGUEST
And that's really back to those questions I asked about our customer and who they are and how they're being served, is understanding the, you know, we had this VFR segment, which is our bread and butter, which is visiting friends and relatives.

Ian MalinGUEST
But then looking more at the weekend getaway segment or the leisure segment as a whole, and also the business, whether it's traditional business or what has become of business post COVID, where people relocated out of city centers into secondary markets, thinking that they would be able to be home office forever and now being pulled back more frequently into those markets and creating flows to be able to cater for those people who may have to be funding that themselves now as opposed to the company allowing them to commute in that basis and then designing the schedules around that particular segment so it makes no sense for someone to come here to nice for a weekend and that flight arrives at seven in the morning because then you have to wait until three for your hotel to check in and what do you do with your bags and your family in that period? So thinking more about, okay, are we timing it for the people that are gonna be doing it, doing the certain activities in those markets or timing it just because we're trying to make a spreadsheet work? And I think in the past there was less nuance around that and that's the segmentation that we're doing right now.
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Richard MoffatHOST
Firstly, where do you see Wiz then in three to five years, if you land it, what are the big growth opportunities and where do you see the business?