Wizz Air is betting on Turin, which from September will become the Hungarian group’s seventh operational base in Italia, the fortieth in Europe, with two aircraft assigned to the Piedmontese airport and a million travellers in the forecast, with seven new routes mainly in Spain (Bilbao served for the first time), 80 direct jobs and about 700 in induced jobs.
The Hungarian group has seen the number of passengers double since 2019, from 41 million to 80 million, the latter being the traffic estimate for 2026, with 40 bases operating in Europe. In 2025 alone, Wizz Air operated more than 2,100 flights from Turin, carrying a total of more than 450,000 passengers, a number that is set to double thanks to the new initiative at the airport.
This is a strategic step that promises to ‘change the pace of Turin airport and will constitute an unprecedented element of growth in the future,’ underlines Sagat CEO Andrea Andorno. At the Turin airport, recalled CEO Andorno, ‘we invest 10 million a year for an airport that is not yet saturated, but which wants to be ready to welcome new initiatives such as those of Wizz Air and which has the ambition of intercepting increasing shares of outgoing and incoming traffic in the North West area’.
With a fleet of 40 aircraft based in the country and a market share of 11%, Wizz Air is now the second largest carrier in Italia, aiming to offer 27 million seats by 2026 and further strengthen its presence in the country. The airline will operate a total of 16 routes to 8 countries from Turin, offering almost 1.3 million seats for sale.
Turin airport is experiencing a growth phase in traffic and passenger volumes, driven by low-cost airlines. Ryanair has announced a third aircraft for Turin, starting in the coming weeks, and now comes Wizz Air’s initiative. The airport has for the first time exceeded 5 million passengers in 2025 and 2026 promises to see traffic numbers increase further thanks to the impact of new aircraft.
