The low-cost airline Wizzair is currently assuming that around half of the previous year's capacity will be offered and carried out in October 2020. However, people are more cautious about the 2020/21 winter flight schedule.

The management of the low-cost carrier is considered to be quite risk-taking. In Wizzair wording you would say that you see yourself as a “pioneer”. But the downside is that hardly any other carrier changes the route network, the flight plan and the frequencies as often as Wizzair and that independently of Corona. If it does not fit financially within a few weeks or months, the route will be closed. This is exactly what can also be seen during the Corona crisis in Vienna, because the company resumed various routes at an extremely early stage, rebuilt the route network and set some destinations again or changed the frequencies very frequently. The latter can become a nuisance for passengers, because the company persistently refuses to provide replacement transport with another airline, even though it is legally obliged to do so.

But Wizzair is also currently having to face reality: Although it has come through the crisis comparatively better than many other providers, demand is currently at an all-time low across Europe. Regardless of which logo is on the fuselage: The airlines have only a few advance bookings, because passengers who want or have to travel book extremely at short notice. Wizzair and Ryanair are selling lots of tickets for single-digit euro prices. If that doesn't help either, then the red pencil has to be found.

The European governments are indirectly enforcing this “red pencil”, because the extremely different entry and quarantine regulations have an extremely detrimental effect on demand. Although the industry is massively pushing for new solutions such as corona rapid tests before each departure as a replacement for the quarantine regulations that are sometimes unattainable for normal passengers, there is currently no short-term solution in sight. And this is exactly where Wizzair comes in: If the travel restrictions do not fall quickly or are replaced by a practicable alternative solution, for example the aforementioned quick tests, the pink low-cost airline assumes that it will be more than 50 percent of the usual in winter To offer capacity. Even this value would then be massively questionable. Of course, the company did not disclose what effects this could have on the thousands of Wizzair employees.