The Wizz Air Group has to thin out the flight schedule in September and October 2023. The offer from the United Kingdom is primarily affected. The reason for this is that unscheduled inspections of the engines have to be carried out.
"Wizz Air announces that due to the accelerated inspections of several of our GTF engines ordered by Pratt & Whitney, we have made adjustments to the route network that will result in the cancellation of some flights on selected days between certain destinations," the company said in a statement.
All machines that are equipped with Pratt & Whitney engines are affected. Since many aircraft in the pink low-cost group are powered by IAE engines, not the entire fleet is affected. Nevertheless, the unscheduled inspections have an effect, because capacity is temporarily lost. This inevitably means that the flight plan has to be thinned out selectively.
Although WIzz Air plans to carry out the necessary checks as quickly as possible, flight cancellations on individual days cannot be ruled out. The company endeavors to communicate any adjustments to the flight schedule to the affected passengers as early as possible. Travelers should be offered free rebookings and refunds.
In principle, passengers whose flights are cancelled by the airline are entitled to alternative transport even outside the 14-day period, which is only relevant for the claim to any compensation. Wizz Air makes it particularly complicated here, because contrary to supreme court rulings that clearly state that rebooking must also be done on other airlines and modes of transport, the budget airline insists on a clause in its general terms and conditions that states that passengers are only entitled to rebooking on another Wizz Air flight to the destination region. Since this "regulation" contradicts passenger rights and rulings by the ECJ and the Austrian Supreme Court, the Chamber of Labor is currently filing a lawsuit against the clause in question and other Wizz Air conditions of transport.
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