Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder. It's Thursday the 30th of April.

Very special guests today, the managing director of Wiz Air UK. She is Yvonne Moineshan and we've been talking about a wide range of subjects to do with Europe's

exciting third biggest low-cost airline after Ryanair and EasyJet. This is what Yvonne has to say.

It might be difficult times but the sun is shining in London, and we have just launched

our biggest ever network from the UK and in particular from Luton.

So despite the challenging geopolitical crisis, business goes on as usual.

And of course, in airlines, we are well used to crises.

So we are resilient and we're well adapted. So we are very

happy to have launched our summer. You are looking very cheerful, but that is amid, for example,

European officials saying that all the tanks in European airports are going to run dry.

Airlines like Luftanzer and SAS of Scandinavia are saying,

oh, we're going to have to cut hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of flights

because fuel is running out and it's too expensive.

So I imagine it might be the same for you,

but I'm speaking to lots of people who are getting worried because of all those

noises. Yes, I mean, it would be, I would say likely for those larger legacy airlines to

already be looking ahead and maybe for cost-cutting purposes, they're anticipating higher fuel

prices, so they're cancelling ahead. For low-cost airlines, and I think for low-cost airlines like WIS in the UK,

we don't see any shortage of fuel.

We are working closely with airports, with fuel suppliers,

with the Department for Transport as well,

who has set up an aviation fuel resilience team.

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