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Wizz Air is reducing frequencies on a number of its destinations in the former Yugoslavia until early to mid-October due to a lack of available crew. The airline will primarily be reducing frequencies by one flight per week, leaving a number routes operating with just one weekly rotation. The airline is addressing the crew shortage issue by launching an urgent recruitment drive in Skopje, Belgrade, Sarajevo and Tuzla. It has also arranged ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance) leases in order to secure a sufficient number of crew members. Aircraft remain available with a number yet to be returned to the fleet. Airlines such as GetJet, Titan Airways and HiFly have been operating Wizz Air flights. Services from Skopje, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Tuzla, Banja Luka, Split, Dubrovnik and Ohrid have all been affected. From Skopje, the airline is reducing frequencies on flights to Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Hanover, Nuremberg, Skavsta, Vaxjo and Turku. Routes impacted by the crew shortage from Belgrade include Basel, Heraklion, Larnaca and Santorini. From Sarajevo the airline is reducing frequencies to Beauvais and has cancelled plans to launch operations to London Luton but earlier this week announced the stationing of a second aircraft in the city from mid-December. Furthermore, the carrier has slashed frequencies from Tuzla to Baden Baden, Memmingen and Vienna. From Banja Luka, services to Eindhoven have been reduced, while flights from Ohrid to Vienna have also been decreased. The airline’s frequency cuts have also affected its operations on the Croatian coast with frequencies from Split to Dortmund, Gdansk, Luton, Rome and Vienna being downgraded while cuts from Dubrovnik include Vienna and Warsaw. The crew shortage issue comes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Wizz Air laid off a number of crew at its bases last year, including those in the former Yugoslavia. However, it also offered voluntary redundancies, which had a significantly higher staff uptake than the the number of those affected by the layoffs themselves. This is because Wizz Air’s crew wages are generated in large part from on board sales and other performance-related tasks, which were low or non-existent for most of 2020 and part of 2021 due to Covid-19 and a significantly reduced duty schedule. As a result, crew members were left with basic salary income, forcing many to look for work elsewhere.
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By: EX-YU Aviationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]
Title: Wizz Air reduces EX-YU operations over crew shortage
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Published Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 08:00:00 +0000
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