Last Thursday, the airline Wizz Air in Vienna caused angry passengers, because course W6 2955, which was supposed to take off at 12:15 p.m., did not start until shortly before 20:00 p.m. local time. The connection to Yerevan was also delayed, but only by an hour.

Both flights should have been carried out with the aircraft type Airbus A321neo. But then A321ceo actually flown. The HA-LXV to Corfu and the HA-LTH to Yerevan. In order to at least minimize the delay of the course W6 2954 (Corfu-Vienna), the route was “reversed”. That means instead of Vienna-Corfu-Vienna the Airbus A321 flew Corfu-Vienna-Corfu. The aircraft was previously flown in by ferry from Bucharest and returned empty to the Romanian capital shortly after midnight on Friday.

The HA-LTH ferry was flown in from Krakow for flight W6 2891. In addition to the Erwian circuit, this Airbus A321 served the Rome circuit on Friday from Vienna and was then transferred empty to Warsaw. Due to the flight of this medium-haul jet, the Yerevan flight was delayed by around an hour last Thursday.

The airline Wizz Air confirmed that the two courses were delayed. A spokesman told Aviation Direct: “The flights to Corfu and Yerevan were delayed for technical reasons”. However, they did not want to give more details about the cause of the technical problems. In any case, an Airbus A321neo machine was affected, which therefore could not be used.

The tanker broke down near a Wizz-Air machine

On Friday at Vienna-Schwechat Airport it was not exactly an everyday sight. The airport fire brigade stood in front of a Wizz Air plane with fire engines and flashing lights. However, neither smoke nor fire was visible on the Hungarian low-cost airline's Airbus. Was it an exercise? No, because it was actually a real fire brigade operation, but the Wizz Air aircraft was not affected at all and the fire engines happened to be in the immediate vicinity of the machine.

A tanker reported a technical problem and the airport fire brigade was called in as a precaution. Ultimately, this did not have to be deleted, but was available for advice and in the event of an emergency. Common practice when there are problems with refueling. Incidentally, the “fuel” was not intended for Wizz Air, but the truck just happened to break down near the aircraft.

A spokesman for the carrier said: “The airport fire brigade was at the airfield because a tanker had technical problems. The local proximity to a Wizz Air aircraft was therefore a pure coincidence. The Wizz Air plane had no problems. "