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Wizz Air Group

Wizz Air is the fastest growing ultra-low-cost carrier and one of the most sustainable European airlines, operating a fleet of 200+ Airbus A320 and A321-family aircraft, and connecting 200+ destinations across 50+ countries.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Gzim Ocakoglu (Acting Head of Unit Mobility and Transport)

12 Dec 2025 · Exchange on recent market developments and introduction of new EU Affairs Manager

Meeting with Michalis Hadjipantela (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Sept 2025 · Introductory Meeting

Meeting with Gzim Ocakoglu (Acting Head of Unit Mobility and Transport)

1 Sept 2025 · Exchange of Information on Wizz Air’s reassessment of market entry plans in India and other market updates

Meeting with Apostolos Tzitzikostas (Commissioner) and

17 Jul 2025 · Implementation Dialogue on ramping up renewable and low-carbon maritime and aviation fuels production in the EU

Meeting with Filip Cornelis (Director Mobility and Transport) and

17 Jul 2025 · Exchange of views on the main aviation priorities

Response to Amendment of the EU ETS Monitoring and Reporting Regulation (MRR) in response to the ETS revision/Fit For 55 (Batch 2)

29 Jul 2024

The MRV is the principal tool at the EUs disposal to advance the science of non-CO2 effects. While other industry initiatives are to be supported, the MRV currently represents the only legislative option guaranteed to gather data from the entire sector. To advance our understanding, the MRV must ensure that accurate, comprehensive and comparable data is collected. This means gathering a representative and non-discriminatory dataset of all types of flights, including short and long-haul, intra- and extra-EU, day and night routes. It must cover all aircraft types, for instance wide-, and narrowbody aircraft. Therefore, the MRV cannot be limited to a non-representative sub-set of flights by only covering intra-European Economic Area (intra-EEA) routes. Intra-EEA flight routes account for ~25% of European aviations carbon emissions, while extra-EEA/long-haul routes account for ~75%. However, when it comes to non-CO2 effects, there are scientific reasons to suspect that the bias towards extra-EEA/long-haul routes will be even greater than with carbon. This is due to the timing and location of these flights, as more of these routes occur over global regions where weather conditions make persistent warming contrails more likely, and due to flying at higher altitudes and for a longer time. Note, there is also a higher proportion of night flights on long-haul routes. Limiting the scheme to intra-EEA flights would make the MRV blind to the vast majority of non-CO2 effects, drastically undermining the purpose and statistical validity of the data it generates, and misdirecting future action to mitigate non-CO2 effects. The aviation sector has a collective duty to lower the climate impact of flying and we cannot to do this effectively, if we limit the scope of this research and exclude the majority of EU aviation, the very areas that are most suspected of generating these effects - namely extra-EEA/long-haul routes. The most polluting flights are not captured, and therefore the most polluting business models are subjected to more lenient treatment than airlines with more efficient business models. This is not a level playing field. As for the extraterritoriality, we take note of the concern raised by parts of the industry, that the proposed scope of the MRV could create an extraterritorial impact on non-EU carriers, due to the extra-EEA/long-haul portion of the scope including both EU and non-EU operators. However, we highlight the fact that the ReFuelEU Aviation mandates the uplift of SAF for all flights departing an EU airport, regardless of the nationality or destination of the carrier. This will result in significant cost for both EU and non-EU operators, but it did not provoke any diplomatic incident. Multiple European regulations apply to non-EU carriers for extra-EEA routes. It is therefore difficult to understand why the monitoring (and not pricing) of non-CO2 emissions for scientific purposes would result in a dispute with non-EU governments. Nevertheless, the solution they proposed to address the extraterritoriality problem (i.e., making the MRV voluntary for all carriers across all extra-EEA routes) would create an unfortunate and unintentional situation, where no data is reported at all for the entire long-haul network of European aviation. This would drastically undermine the purpose and statistical validity of the MRV by obscuring the vast majority of non-CO2 effects (as these are suspected to occur on long-haul. In conclusion, leaving out a substantial number of high-emitting flights would be a mistake. From our perspective, there is no clear reasoning behind only including intra-EU flights in the data collection. It would entirely ignore the types of flights that are likely the most polluting from a non-CO2 perspective. In essence, mitigating climate change is the responsibility of the entire ecosystem. Everyone needs to play their part and there should be no exceptions in this legislative file either.
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Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy) and Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) and

8 Apr 2024 · Energy market

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

8 Apr 2024 · Dialogue on Clean Mobility

Response to Better protection for passengers and their rights

14 Mar 2024

Wizz Air appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Commission's proposal. Please see our feedback in the attached document.
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Meeting with Pablo Fabregas Martinez (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean), Rachel Smit (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)

7 Dec 2023 · Air fares

Meeting with Magda Kopczynska (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

31 Oct 2023 · 1) Sustainable Aviation 2) Regulatory Framework

Meeting with Cristian-Silviu Buşoi (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Jun 2023 · Slots and Air Services Regulation

Meeting with Rachel Smit (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)

8 Mar 2023 · Aviation developments

Meeting with Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean), Rachel Smit (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)

6 Mar 2023 · aviation

Meeting with Adina-Ioana Vălean (Commissioner) and

6 Sept 2022 · Meeting CEO

Meeting with Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean), Rachel Smit (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)

17 Feb 2022 · aviation