The shock announcement will see the budget airline’s two remaining routes from the airport – to Milan and Bucharest – cease on 25 January.
Wizz Air announced the opening of its Cardiff base in April 2022, with plans to offer nine routes including Tenerife, Lanzarote and Corfu. It revealed intentions to create 40 jobs directly and 250 indirectly.
The airline was to have offered more than 330,000 seats, but then announced in November that it would suspend operations over the winter, while stressing its commitment to Cardiff.
Wizz Air UK manging director Marion Geoffroy said then the carrier was “prepared to build up operations at Cardiff over the long term”.
