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Ryanair launches Wizz Air ‘rescue fares’ after Cardiff cuts

Air
James Chapple
12 August 2022

Ryanair has launched a range of "rescue fares" to help holidaymakers affected by Wizz Air’s decision to axe the majority of its winter sun schedule from Cardiff airport.

Ryanair is now forecasting a smaller than anticipated annual loss

On Wednesday (10 August), Wizz said all nine of the routes it announced or launched earlier this year would be suspended – including its flights to Sharm el Sheikh, which had been due to get under way in November.


From 19 September, Wizz will suspend its Cardiff routes to Lanzarote, Tenerife, Alicante, Faro, Palma, Larnaca, Crete (Heraklion) and Corfu.


Ryanair is offering Wizz customers affected by the cancellations at Cardiff £39.99 fares to several of these destinations when booked by midnight on 15 August for travel through to the end of October.