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Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company (ADQ) (formerly, Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company, ADDH), Wizz Air Holdings

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi is a low-cost airline based at Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi.

It is a subsidiary company to the larger Wizz Air franchise and was created in 2019 to cater to growth markets in the Middle East, Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi is a joint venture between Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company (ADQ) (51% ownership) and Wizz Air Holdings (49%).

The airline operates at more than 190 airports across 54 countries.

Wizz Air News

The Saudi aviation authority has set a deadline of May 21 for bids from charter airline operators

Saudi Arabia invites bids for charter airline

Saudi Arabia’s aviation regulator is inviting bids to set up a national charter airline. The General Authority of Civil Aviation opened the bid process on April 13 and has set a submission deadline of May 21, it said in a statement. All the bids will be opened on May 22. In February the regulator announced […]

Wizz Air is focusing on making its current fleet more efficient until it receives new aircraft

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi predicts slower growth

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi expects slower growth in 2025 as delays of new aircraft deliveries, engine issues in some of its existing fleet and regulatory problems in some new markets affect its ambitious expansion plans. The airline, a joint venture between Hungary’s Wizz Air Holding and Abu Dhabi’s state-owned investment holding ADQ, is navigating global […]

Wizz Air Israel

Wizz Air increases flights from UAE to Israel after ceasefire

The budget carrier Wizz Air is increasing the number of flights between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv after the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. The airline had previously scaled back its Tel Aviv-Abu Dhabi service to four flights a week because of the conflict, down from its pre-crisis schedule of two flights a day.  […]

Wizz Air is focusing on developing Saudi Arabia as an inbound market rather than setting up a local carrier, says CEO Jozsef Varadi

Wizz Air expects Abu Dhabi to beat global traffic growth

Abu Dhabi will likely beat global passenger volume growth of 15-20 percent next year, driven by new low-cost routes to the Middle East, Wizz Air CEO Jozsef Varadi has said. “I think Abu Dhabi is going to grow beyond this,” he said. Based in Hungary, the airline established its operations in Abu Dhabi in 2019 through […]

A group of tourists sees Petra for the first time. Visitor numbers from Europe and North America are down sharply

Investors to build 1,400 hotel rooms in Petra despite tourism slump

Local investors are proceeding with plans to build 1,400 hotel rooms in Petra, a tourism official has said, as Jordan grapples with the impact of the Gaza conflict. Petra’s hotel occupancy rates tumbled to a record low of 3 percent last November and have remained in the single or the low double digits since then. […]

Visitors enjoy the Karnak Temples; the government hopes to entice 30 million tourists to Egypt a year by 2030 tourism egypt

Egypt tourism up 5% in early 2024 despite Gaza conflict

The number of tourists visiting Egypt increased by five percent year on year in the first 40 days of 2024, according to Egypt’s tourism minister, Ahmed Issa. The announcement came after reports in January that visitor numbers for the whole of 2023 reached a record high of 14.9 million, just shy of the 15 million […]

Wizz Air has 12 aircraft based in Abu Dhabi, with plans to expand to 50 in the next four to five years

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi aims for 25% business growth 

Low-cost carrier Wizz Air Abu Dhabi expects business to grow by 25 percent in 2024 compared to last year, driven by capacity growth. The airline has 12 aircraft based in Abu Dhabi, with plans to expand to 50 in the next four to five years, the UAE state-run Wam news agency reported, citing CEO Jozsef […]