The travails of the airline sector are enough to make most investors assume the brace position for a hard landing. Brexit and the implications for flight paths and cross-border customs checks; fluctuating fuel costs; a rising wage bill thanks to militant pilots; exposure to the downturn in consumer confidence; and sending planes up into skies that are overcrowded with the jets of other operators.
An increasingly busy part in this turbulence is being played by Wizz Air, the budget airline that specialises in flights to and from central and eastern Europe. Based in Hungary, Wizz Air was founded in 2003 and carried passengers on its first flight a year later from Katowice, Poland. It flies more than 600 routes from 25 bases across Europe
