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Wizz Air (Dortmund to Vilnius)

Dortmund’s beautiful airport…. I got the train to the nearby railway station and walked twenty minutes to get to the airport as the direct bus to the city centre was €10. That price is a rip-off, the city knows it’s a rip-off, but this is a city that likes cars and treats them with respect. As a comparison, the bus at the other end of this flight cost €0.70 in Vilnius to get from the airport to the city centre. There’s also no way of paying by card on the bus in Dortmund, but of course there is in Vilnius. The reviews of the airport bus service, which is run as a monopoly by the airport, in Dortmund are very poor, I was pleased not to go near it.

The airport was appalling in nearly every way. There is no care here from management, the toilets had no working hand dryers or paper towels, not just one of them, but all of them. The floor was dirty, surfaces were grubby, it’s a dismal airport. The managing director is Ludger van Bebber, who has led this airport for five years, and the Board are so pleased with him that they’ve extended his tenure by another five years. I’ve seen people mock Luton Airport, but at least they keep the place clean. I had a little rummage around on the airport’s website for anything about customer satisfaction and that transpired to be a fool’s errand. The only document I could find was from 2011, congratulating themselves on being above average. That was also the last time they updated their awards page. Possibly because no one has given them one since.

That middle screen does give a reflection on what this airport is like. However, the security staff were very friendly and engaging, although they had to work quickly as there’s so little space for customers given the small size of the airport.

The airport apron and it’s mostly Wizz Air who are using the terminal at the moment.

One oddly charming touch is that the airside area is so close to the pavement that people were waving goodbye to their loved ones through the glass. I don’t think that’s a feature though, more of a planning oversight that they’ve leaned into.

Most airports have a photo of, well, the airport when they have “Welcome to” their city signs. This image is of Messe Dortmund, which is nowhere near the airport, but is an attractive building.

The gate area had a certain mystery to it, since the screen that should have told passengers what flight they were queuing for was broken. As a result, everyone was sort of milling about asking each other what destination they hoped they were off to. It was a communal guessing game with mild existential dread.

The aircraft was 9H-WAF, an Airbus A321 which has been in the Wizz Air fleet which had been loyally trundling passengers around since November 2022. It was the most competent thing I saw all day (well, until I got to Vilnius).

Frankly, I was quite keen to leave Dortmund Airport, not least because I wasn’t entirely convinced it wasn’t held together by hope and old glue. In fairness, it’s a regional airport trying to stay afloat despite airlines abandoning it like a sinking ship. Wizz Air is doing most of the heavy lifting now but it does feel that the airport has gone by the number that they can easily cope with. There is a cafe that doesn’t have enough seats and that’s pretty much it, although I did find a seat to sit at near the gate and there was working wi-fi.

Boarding was efficient and the member of staff at the gate was friendly and engaging.

And off we go, the seat Gods gave me an aisle seat and there was also no-one next to me, so it was a very comfortable flight. I was going to, for the first time, buy a drink from the trolley as it came down the aisle, but I fell asleep so that moment passed. I’ve realised I don’t take many photos on the aircraft, so here’s a little treat. I’m not sure what it adds to this blog post, but there we go, it’s the thought of the content that counts. Once again, the crew were helpful, personably, well presented and worked hard, with the pilots making informative announcements. Nothing went wrong and that’s a very good thing.

A guy with a bag (it’s actually the guy in the photo, but I can’t imagine he’ll ever read this blog) pushed past me and two others on the aircraft to get off, using some force. All three of us walked around him by the time we reached the terminal (which as is visible in the above photo really isn’t very far away), so he made no time up on that little expedition. Every time though, there’s this huge rush from a few passengers and they then meander about like a drunk snail at the bottom of the steps.

My seat on the aircraft was about four rows from the back, so I deplaned (I know, it’s an American term, but I like it) quickly and I was through the airport quickly. To be precise, I got off at 18:40 and was on the bus at 18:45. I’d say that’s pretty good from Vilnius Airport and thanks to the lovely bus driver who saw me rushing to his bus and waved to signal he was waiting. The bus was clean, the contactless payment worked and it was everything that Dortmund wasn’t.

June 16, 2025
Wizz Air (Warsaw Chopin to Dortmund)

Today’s early morning flight was from Warsaw Chopin to Dortmund and since I was at the airport soon after the security area opened, it was certainly a quiet airside. Although I accept that’s because normal people don’t arrive at airports as early as I do……

The corridors weren’t yet bustling.

The restaurants not yet packed.

I went to inspect the gate for my flight, which was scheduled to leave at 06:05. I realised that this meant I had time for a flying lounge visit, although it only opened at 05:00 so it wasn’t going to be a lingering one.

A little queue had formed for the lounge.

The excitement of it all….

As usual, I was eyeing up the chocolates (in that basket on the right of the photo).

And a breakfast of a Greek salad, blackcurrant juice, Fanta and a hot chocolate. I soon added chocolate, a banana and two shots of espresso. It transpired that I had twenty minutes in the lounge until they called customers to go to the gate, but that was sufficient time to get enough food and drink. Fortunately, my lounge pass is unlimited as I wouldn’t have paid for such a short visit.

The boarding process was efficient, although it was a bus gate which is never entirely ideal. The seating Gods had given me a middle seat, but it’s only a short flight and I was asleep for nearly all of it anyway. The route from Warsaw to Dortmund (and back again) has only just been launched but it was a nearly full flight. This is the exciting thing for airlines such as Wizz Air and Ryanair, they can open new routes and have a near guarantee that people will want to travel between the two locations.

The aircraft was 9H-WBZ, an Airbus A321 which has been in the fleet since October 2022, which I don’t think that I’ve been on before.

Safely into Dortmund and it was a little warmer than Warsaw.

Dortmund Airport is, if I’m being honest, bloody awful. The terminal was built in 2000 and designed for many fewer passengers, so it’s struggling to cope with the current higher volumes. There aren’t enough toilets, it’s not clean and it didn’t feel very well maintained. There was limited seating, the signage was confused and the on-line reviews are appalling, they desperately need an entirely new terminal. I can’t say that I’m looking forward to flying out of the airport in a couple of days.

Anyway, it was in my eyes a successful flight as it cost me under £9, it was on time and everything seemed well managed and organised.

June 13, 2025
Wizz Air (London Luton to Warsaw Chopin)

And a flight to Warsaw for my last week of dental work and I’ve been very brave by all accounts. For completeness, I thought I’d include the photos of the lounge visits from my Priority Pass card before the flight, as I’m like that….. I received a notification that the aircraft was running around thirty minutes late, which allowed a little extra time for these visits. This is Big Smoke and the chicken tenders and Electric Eye beer which was hazy, hoppy and a bit tropical.

The Calamari and pineapple juice at Nolito, primarily as they’d run out of orange juice.

And the My Lounge, which was full when I first went but I joined the on-line queue and headed to Nolito instead. Thirty minutes later I received a message saying that I could check-in. The cutlery here was filthy as usual, but everything else felt clean and organised. The staff were friendly and the beer, Birra Moretti, was generic and dull.

Anyway, I digress.

This is the first Wizz Air flight that I can remember where the boarding process was unclear. The priority (not me) and non-priority (me) queues weren’t very clear and a staff member came down after some time to try and resolve the confusion. The gates are poorly marked here rather than it being a Wizz Air issue, but fortunately I arrived early enough to work the whole arrangement out, but I noticed some stressed customers after me.

There we go, confirmation that I was in the right queue…..

It felt a longer wait than usual to board the aircraft, but nothing unreasonable, and all of the staff seemed helpful if not one that seemed a little frazzled by customers. The aircraft was HA-LVE, which I don’t think that I’ve been on before, an Airbus A321 which has been in the Wizz Air fleet since July 2019.

The seating Gods had given me an aisle seat towards the rear of the aircraft, which I felt was very agreeable. Two other customers had been barging past other customers and I just let them past me, they seemed to have an issue with personal space and numerous other customers just let them go by. It transpired that they were sitting next to me on the aircraft, so it was efficient that they had gone ahead of me given that I had the aisle seat. The flight was without issue once again, with the pilot making regular announcements. I think I was asleep for most of the flight, I get easily tired now that I’m 30.

And safely into a rainy Warsaw around an hour after the original expected arrival time. As the flight had cost me under £9 with Multi Pass, I was happy with the whole arrangement. The border control was efficient and more personable than I’ve experienced recently, some others ahead me in the queue were being asked the purpose of their visit, but I just got “welcome back to Poland” so perhaps they’ve got fed up with asking.

June 11, 2025
Wizz Air (Budapest to Glasgow)

I thought that the tropical heat of Budapest was getting a bit much, so I decided to go somewhere rather more suited to my preferred temperature range, so I opted for Glasgow. The flight was just under £9 with the Wizz Air Multipass that I bought last December and I remain very pleased with.

Slightly blurred, well very blurred, but I was zooming in to check that I was at the correct gate. The flight was delayed by an hour, but I was in no rush at the other end so I appreciated the extra time in the airport lounge. The boarding process was efficient and the gate staff were polite and helpful, although a couple of customers being charged for oversized bags might not have agreed with that.

Boarding the aircraft 9H-WDR, an A321 which has been in the Wizz Air fleet since June 2023. The seat Gods had unfortunately given me a middle seat and I had decided to accept my fate with my usual heap of downloaded YouTube videos lined up. However, the delight of hearing “boarding complete” with no-one in the aisle seat meant that the seating Gods had looked at me favourably after all. And then I noticed that the woman opposite and forward one row had eyed up the seat and was wildly flapping for her husband (or male companion, I shouldn’t judge) to come back about six rows and sit there to be near her. Anyway, that plan was foiled as I had already moved when she was mid-flap.

And then another little situation occurred when numerous people applauded the pilots for landing the plane. I don’t know a huge number of pilots (well, two) but both of them I know hate this practice and I’m not sure if it’s from the Hungarians who know more about their national airline than I do (I accept that it might not be the official national airline, but it has far more aircraft than any other Hungarian airline).

Anyway, that was the first little situation, with the second being the lady in the window seat being determined to barge past me after the aircraft arrived at the gate to get to the aisle. Now, I’m a firm believer in the “where exactly do you think you’re going?” philosophy of post-landing etiquette. I’ve got nowhere to go or stand. Are we suddenly going to a surprise party on the air bridge? No, we’re not, so I wasn’t moving in the period between the aircraft being at the gate and the aircraft door opening. The whole mad dash is truly a marvel and it happens nearly every flight. You’ve got people practically dislocating shoulders trying to yank their bloody carry-ons down, then forming a chaotic queue in the aisle, all while desperately trying to outmanoeuvre each other for a coveted spot only to then shuffle along at the pace of a heavily sedated snail once they hit the terminal.

And safely back in Glasgow post rushoffplanegate, around forty minutes later than expected. I have a few hours at the airport but I’ll report back on this riveting exercise a little later on.

June 3, 2025
Wizz Air (London Luton to Budapest)

There’s not a lot for me to write about this flight as Wizz Air are so efficient that matters always seem to go as planned. But I’ll write about it for my own memory, this flight cost me £8.99 as it was booked with the Wizz Air Multipass and it’s the 19:25 flight to Budapest from London Luton Airport. As an aside and despite what the board noted, the gate was shown from 18:25 although at that point the incoming aircraft hadn’t even parked up.

The flight was departing from Gate 31 and, as usual, the signage was clear so that customers knew where to go whether they were priority (not me) or non-priority (me). British Airways never really managed this, they ended up with a mass of people (somewhat more commonly and rather unkindly called gate lice) standing in a random pattern near to the boarding gates and thus blocking everyone else.

There’s the aircraft arriving and before the customers had deplaned (I know some people hate that word, but I like it). It’s 9H-WNT, an Airbus A321 which only entered service in late January 2025. Given how new it is, I’m fairly sure that I haven’t been on it yet. Customers waited excitedly on the stairs and the gate staff were generally tolerant of some bags that were too large, but they did charge those who were evidently way over the limit. I’m always slightly surprised how many people push this, it’s quite an expensive exercise to be charged extra at the gate and I’m not sure it’s worth the risk.

Boarding the aircraft and the seat Gods had given me an aisle seat in what was a nearly full service. The flight was uneventful, we sat on the runway (not literally obviously, we were in a plane) for 20 minutes as they waited for a slot from air traffic control, but there were regular announcements and the crew were endlessly polite. The crew were efficient and helpful, with quite a number of passengers purchasing food and drink as the trolley went up and down the aisle. A group of younger customers, who looked like they were about 16, applauded after the aircraft landed and I did secretly hope that they would be barred for life, but then I thought that might be a little excessive.

And landing at Budapest airport pretty much on time. Wizz Air pad their schedules a bit, so the late departure was made up en route and so they could accurately state that there was no delay. In terms of timings, I was impressed as this photo was taken at 23:13 when I was leaving the aircraft and I was at the Ibis Styles hotel reception at 23:20. I think that seven minutes is perhaps the fastest that I’ve gone from the aircraft, through border control, through security and into the hotel.

June 2, 2025
Wizz Air (London Luton to Warsaw Chopin)

I usually don’t write anything about the flights I take, but a change is as good as a rest and all that. I’m not sure that Luton Airport has really mastered the art of returning flights efficiently, but the security process is now quite efficient. I have to confess to pure idiocy during security when I managed to leave my belt on during the security scan. I blame the confusion on their policy of leaving liquids and laptops in the bag which throws my system. The member of security staff was though not deterred and, thankfully, my brief masterclass in how not to do security seemed to escape wider notice, preserving my fragile dignity in aviation matters.

They announced the gate quite early, an hour before the flight, the delights of Gate 32 beckoned. Having endured the boarding methodologies back in my BA days, which often resembled a polite but ultimately confusing game of human Tetris, Wizz Air’s approach felt refreshingly straightforward. Every passenger knows, or should know, where to go from signage and they didn’t take long to board everyone. Admittedly, that leads to a lot of waiting on the stairs in the airport terminal to board, but at least it feels efficient although it’s less ideal for people who prefer to have a little sit down rather than balance themselves and their luggage on steps.

The aircraft was ready and for the sake of completion, the registration is 9H-wNE, the same aircraft I went from Gdansk to London Luton on a few months ago. It’s hard not to make that sound quite geekish, but as a reminder, for my two loyal blog readers who can’t remember, it’s an Airbus A321 which was delivered to Wizz Air in March 2024. Feel free to use that aviation nugget of information at your next dinner party, instant social success guaranteed…..

I’ve had a long series of good fortune from the seating Gods where I’ve been aisle or window seats, but that luck had run out for this flight when I was randomly given a middle seat. I always vaguely hope that one of the passengers doesn’t turn up, but they both did. Both were Polish, the one by the aisle fell asleep for most of the flight and the other managed to consume several Polish beers and then needed me to wake up the aisle guy from his hibernation for obvious reasons. I’m not sure that they entirely managed to follow my rule of letting the middle seat passenger have the arm rests, but since that’s a rule I’ve created it’s one that’s hard to enforce. Fortunately, this isn’t a long flight and two hours later we were landing into Warsaw.

The crew on the flight were well presented, engaging and efficient, although that’s the normality for Wizz Air flights I’ve found. Announcements from the pilots were in Polish with a shorter English version following soon after and the safety briefing was completely in a way that the CAA would be pleased by.

The delights of Warsaw always excite me, so I didn’t even mind that it was a bus that took us to border control. Most passengers on the flight were Polish or had EU passports, so the queue for my passport to be stamped was relatively short. The border agent was friendly and for this visit didn’t require a detailed explanation of my life before letting me into Poland. The flight is with my Multi Pass, which I’m still moderately obsessed with, so it cost just £8.99. Armrest battles aside, Wizz Air delivered the goods once again as far as I was concerned.

April 19, 2025
Wizz Air (Budapest to Athens)

Getting from my hotel in Budapest required a 45 minute walk from my hotel at 04:00 in the morning and then a 40 minute journey on a bus to the airport. Due to my cutting the walk down to under 30 minutes, the immediate presence of the airport bus at its stop and the aforementioned vehicle making up time en route, I arrived at the airport around three hours before my flight which was much better going that I had expected. Indeed I was so early that my flight to Athens wasn’t on the screen…. Given the efficient nature of security I was able to have two hours in the lounge, but more of that in another post.

There’s the 08:20 flight visible as I was going to Athens for a five day trip. Budapest is the home of Wizz Air and it’s been a few years since I went to the Hungarian capital. But that will have to come in another riveting episode of this blog as Richard is expecting a swift write-up of Athens and I can’t be dawdling writing about Budapest.

I really liked Budapest Ferenc Liszt Airport, or as much as you can realistically like an airport. There was plenty of seating, plenty of power points, plenty of space and clear signage. It’s a shame that the designers of Berlin Brandenburg hadn’t had a little day trip out here, although I won’t start going on about that again. Well, other than that mention.

The boarding started forty minutes before the flight and the division between priority and non-priority is clear.

Yet again, the boarding process was efficient. I joined the boarding queue a little earlier than normal as I was in a window seat and I didn’t want to make people move after they’d just sat down. There was a Wizz Air staff member checking a lot of customer bags for size, although mine wasn’t checked. There was then a bus transfer to the aircraft and the process did annoy a few customers as they kept packing more passengers on. The bored and worn out looking driver shouted “I know there’s space, this seats 100”, although I think they’ve done the sizing in the same way that they do in lifts. The amount of times I’ve seen a small lift and it says that the maximum number of people is 6, but they must be rather thin shall we say. Anyway, I digress, the aircraft is HA-LZI, an A321 which was brought into use in late 2021 and I don’t think I’ve been on it before.

And safely landing in Athens. I had been randomly assigned a window seat and there was also no-one next to me, so it felt as if there was plenty of room and the aircraft was likely only 70% full. The crew were friendly and polite throughout, with the entire flight feeling calm. I bought the ticket as part of the Wizz Air All You Can Fly subscription service, so it came in at just under £9. The flight arrived 11 minutes early and as this was a Schengen to Schengen flight I didn’t have much of a wait at the airport. That meant I was safely in Athens, with Richard arriving the following day on his executive aircraft. Once again, I was suitably impressed by Wizz Air, their pricing and general efficiency.

March 2, 2025
Wizz Air (From Luton Airport to Tallinn and Back Again)

I don’t have a great deal to say about these two flights, taken five days apart, but I have sufficient things to note to want to make a post about them. That’s just how this exciting blog works. Anyway, I enjoyed my visit to Big Smoke, Avalon and My Lounge at Luton Airport, then it was time to set off for the departure gate. There’s the 16:00 flight to Tallinn, a rather agreeable departure time if I may say so. There’s a two hour time difference which does mean that the aircraft arrives at what feels like quite a late time, but at least the airport in Tallinn is near to the city.

I cannot fault the efficiency of Wizz Air and the boarding was ready to start by the time I got to the gate. I wondered about whether the guy in front of me with two bags was going to get away with that and it transpired that he didn’t. The gate agent was friendly, but she wasn’t having such an obvious breach of the rules and so she charged him some exorbitant amount.

Here we are boarding and I was pleased to be randomly allocated an aisle seat. I was flying on the All You Can Fly scheme that Wizz Air operates, which I’m entirely pleased with so this made the return flight a total of just over £17. There is some debate today about how Wizz Air have been contacting those who have cancelled flights telling them that their pass might in turn be cancelled without recompense (there’s a limit of two no shows a year). That is in the rules and it’s why I’m reluctant to put two flights too close together. I’ve never had any problem with Wizz Air but their customer service is I think a little difficult to get through to, so I wouldn’t really want a debate about it.

Once again, the flight didn’t really have anything noteworthy to comment on. It was a smooth flight, the crew were friendly, the aircraft was clean, nothing fell off the aircraft and no-one annoyed me. That’s something of a result as far as I’m concerned. They operate this flight to Tallinn four times a week, which explains why I didn’t notice the return flight come up on All You Can Fly, I had thought that it was a daily service. Wizz Air pad their schedules and so early arrivals aren’t unusual, with this flight arriving 34 minutes early. It’s an Airbus A321, aircraft G-WUND which I don’t think I’ve been on before.

Safely in Tallinn and then I realised there was a little problem. I have an inability to walk on ice, rivalled only by three legged cows and really elderly people. And the walk to the hotel was icy. I debated getting a bus, but I couldn’t be faffing about with that and decided to walk. My bravery and slightly sluggish walking paid dividends and there were no falls and indeed no near incidents. I did walk past someone who had fallen over, but the ambulance was looking after him so I decided not to intervene. Fortunately, the ice and snow had mostly gone on the walk back and it had all entirely gone by the time I flew back.

And here we are (well, here I am) earlier tonight, ready to depart from Tallinn Airport and I made an effort to get the London post in the photo.

I learn something new every day, or at least, most days. RRR is apparently the ICAO reference for the RAF and they had a flight to Brize Norton. I know that the RAF operate commercial flights to the Falkland Islands, but I don’t normally see RAF flights on departure boards.

I popped to the airport lounge (which is functional, clean, large although a little limited in food options), but this is the main departures area which is clean, tidy and well managed. It reminds me of Helsinki Airport, which just feels calm.

The Wizz Air gate after border control and it did get busier, but there’s plenty of seating. There are no Berlin Brandenburg incidents here with seating running out.

The aircraft, once again an Airbus A321, is G-WUKR (which to my knowledge I also haven’t flown on although I don’t keep very assiduous records) and I was stuck in a middle seat this time. Nonetheless, it was a smooth flight and it arrived 51 minutes early which surprised and delighted me. What didn’t surprise and delight me is that my phone crashed when I turned flight mode off and took way too long to get going again. That’s another project for this week, fixing that. I felt sorry for those passengers who were pleased to arrive early as it made their travel plans easier as Luton Airport seemed surprised that a load of planes turned up and that put pressure on the border meaning it took the best part of an hour from deplaning (yes, I know it’s an American word, but I like it) to getting through the border. Fortunately, I am in absolutely no rush, I have an overnight train which will hopefully be sweeping me back to Norwich.

So that’s another very lovely adventure sorted. Next stop, after Norwich, will be Rotherham and does travel get more decadent than that?

February 10, 2025
Evening Meal in Warsaw, Breakfast in Rome and Lunch in Guildford (Wizz Air Multipass)

Firstly, I didn’t quite intend this odd way of getting back to the UK, but I had gone to Warsaw for a few days and needed to get back for something. I’ve been using my relatively new Wizz Air Multipass, which I’ll post an update about soon as I’m rather pleased with it, and the only way of getting back was via Rome.

So, I started yesterday evening from Warsaw’s central railway station.

There’s the flight at 20:40.

Always a delight to be in the Preludium lounge, which is the Schengen lounge so it’s one I’ve only been in a couple of times over the years (and I think one of those was because of Covid and they only opened a couple of the lounges). Thanks to Priority Pass for this.

Boarding.

I had been randomly given an aisle seat, but a cabin crew member came over to me and said they were looking for an English speaker to sit by the emergency exit door. It’s always odd this, a Hungarian airline flying from Poland to Italy, but I was an ideal choice I decided. I certainly had enough space and the flight was less than half full.

Safely into Rome and there was a little collection of artefacts to look at.

I was genuinely impressed at Rome Fiumicino airport, it’s been well designed, it’s spacious, modern and functional. I have been to Rome before, but this reminded me that I haven’t been in several years and I must go back.

I found a seating area and I thought it was interesting that the police checked the passports of most people in the seating area. The airport says that only those with tickets can stay overnight, so perhaps this is their way of checking someone isn’t there rather too frequently. The police were very polite and the time passed quickly.

I went through security at 03:00 and it remained quiet in the non-Schengen zone for some time after that.

A rhino.

There are a range of times for the Plaza Premium Lounge and most suggested that it opened at 05:00. I meandered nearby so I knew where to go, but it seemed open at 04:40 and I asked about the opening time and the friendly staff member said I could come in immediately. Thanks once again Priority Pass.

I didn’t have any of them, but the hot food options.

Just delightful. I’ll write a fuller report of this lounge, but this is very much the sort of breakfast I was hoping for.

And then pastries came out, and they were delicious.

And a double espresso to keep me awake. Rich and decadent. With several meringues (I kept getting more) to provide the sugar boost.

Second flight and I was fortunate to have an aisle seat again, with no-one in the middle seat.

Into Gatwick Airport.

A quick coffee stop in Redhill.

And then Wetherspoons in Guildford.

All really rather lovely, but longer reports to follow for my two loyal blog readers.

January 20, 2025
Wizz Air (Poznan to Luton Airport)

Back to Poznan Airport and this is a sculpture by Henryk Gida Bakalarczyk, it makes quite an impact in the departures area just before security.

There’s my flight to Luton Airport, using the Wizz Air all you can fly pass that I decided to get to try it out, so that means it’s £8.99 for the flight.

After visiting the lounge and going through border control, the non-Schengen area of the airport is quite sizeable with plenty of seating.

They were boarding the aircraft early and, as ever, it was all efficient and organised.

And boarding.

I take these photos in the hope of capturing the registration of the aircraft, otherwise I have to look it up. And it isn’t visible, so I did have to go and look it up, it’s G-WUNA, I don’t think it’s an aircraft I’ve been on before. By chance, it was the first anniversary of Wizz Air bringing this aircraft into service, but they didn’t provide us with cake or anything to mark that milestone.

And safely back into Luton Airport. It wasn’t the most comfortable journeys as I was in the middle seat and felt a little cramped on this journey, but it’s a relatively short flight and I amused myself watching stuff on my phone. There were some winds from Storm Darragh which added some extra excitement in terms of the landing, although it was otherwise uneventful. There was absolutely no delay at all with getting through border control as there was no queue, so plenty of staffing once again at Luton Airport.

It was very lovely, thank you Wizz Air. I still like this all you can fly pass, it wasn’t the longest stay in Poznan, but there seemed to be a suitable choice of destinations that I could go to. I’m already occupied with other things this week, but hopefully I’ll get to use the pass again in December and perhaps quite a lot in the new year.

December 8, 2024