Wizz Air will base two aircraft in Tuzla and introduce flights to nine new destinations including Hamburg, Beauvais, Cologne, Malmo, Gothenburg, Berlin, Larnaca, Maastricht and Hahn. The new additions will expand Wizz Air’s existing network from Tuzla, which currently includes Basel, Memmingen, Vienna and Dortmund. Four of the new routes will launch in December, when the first 239-seat Airbusn A321neo will be stationed at Tuzla Airport, with another five destinations to be added to the network from late March 2026 when a second A321neo will arrive.
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This expansion follows a public call for airline subsidies, for which Wizz Air was the sole applicant. The Tuzla Canton government has allocated 615.000 euros in subsidies for the first year of operations (2025), with annual funding increasing to one million euros between 2026 and 2028. Under the agreement, Wizz Air will receive six euros per arriving passenger on the newly launched routes. Wizz Air closed its base in Tuzla in September 2023, citing supply chain issues and persistent winter fog, which led to “compromises in planned aircraft utilisation and an above-average number of diversions”. At the time, the airline discontinued twelve routes. Of the nine routes five were previously operated in 2023. These include Berlin, Cologne, Gothenburg, Hahn and Malmo.
Commenting on the planned reopening of Wizz Air’s base, Tuzla Canton’s Minister for Trade, Tourism and Transport, Almir Žilić, recently said, “This confirms that our support model is working and that the return of Wizz Air, along with the launch of new routes, will help us achieve our strategic goals”. Commenting on the expansion, Wizz Air Hungary Managing Director, Roland Tischner, said, “I am pleased that after two years we are returning to Tuzla. In cooperation with the Tuzla Canton Government and the airport’s management, we will be reopening the base this December. We will station two aircraft, with the first becoming operational on December 13, and the second in March 2026. As part of the base, we will also have a team and crew permanently based at the airport”.
Wizz Air commenced operations from Tuzla in 2013 and opened a base in the city in 2015, becoming the first and only low cost carrier to do so in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to Wizz Air, Tuzla is also served by Pegasus Airlines and AJet, both operating flights from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport. Tuzla Airport handled 174.861 passengers during the January – July period, an increase of 75.3% on the same period last year, but down 59.6% on 2023 when the Wizz base was still operational.
