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Wizz Air offers 100,000 free seats to Ukrainian refugees

Charity
Will Payne
2 March 2022

Wizz Air will offer 100,000 free seats to Ukrainian refugees on all continental Europe flights departing from Ukraine’s border countries.

It comes after the airline's current group chief financial officer Jourik Hooghe decided to step down to pursue ‘other opportunities’

The seats will be available on services from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania throughout March.

In a statement issued on Tuesday (1 March), the airline said it was "committed" to helping Ukrainian refugees reach their destination, "wherever that may be".

The carrier will also offer a €29.99 rescue fare on all other flights (excluding the UAE, Iceland and the Canaries), as well as a €69.99 rescue fare on all flights to the UAE, Iceland and the Canaries, to support refugees who may be stranded in other locations.