Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder.

It's Friday the 28th of November, a Wiz Air event to catch up with the UK managing director of Wiz Air.

Yvonne Moynihan, how has the year been so far?

Well, I would say closing the year out is looking very positive for WizISER and particularly for WISER UK,

London's low-cost airline. We have seen that we have changed our commercial strategy

and we're now seeing the fruits of that at the moment. So very much we have, let's say,

changed the strategy to suit more the British traveller. And we take

feedback from our customers all of the time. So in summer, we're now preparing for summer and we

will see new routes, particularly to Spain. So we're having five new routes from Luton starting in

April. And we will shortly be announcing more new routes to Spain and also some islands.

So that's all I'll say for now.

We're just finalising the slots and the schedules at the moment before we make our announcement,

which will be soon.

But ultimately, we are really looking at a growth strategy in Luton.

It's interesting that you're focusing more and more on the mainstream British market,

because a lot of people will associate you with being able to go to a vast number of fantastic places in Eastern Europe.

Yes, well, we have our sister airlines who are based in Central and Eastern Europe.

So they're focused on the

central and eastern European strategy. Of course we connect also to our CEE strongholds, but certainly

we can see through travel trends that there is more and more demand for bucket and spade destinations

and also for unique city breaks. And that's what we want more and more routes to be filled with customers

who are looking for those exciting new destinations.

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