About
Wizz Air
Wizz Air
is Central & Eastern Europe's leading
low fare &endash; low cost airline. Wizz
Air flies a young fleet of 180 seater
Airbus A320 aircraft from Katowice, Warsaw
and Gdansk in Poland and from Budapest in
Hungary on 32 European routes to 17
destinations this summer. Shortly
operations from Poznan, Poland, Sofia,
Bulgaria and Kaunas, Lithuania will be
added. Since its start in May 2004 Wizz
Air has carried nearly 2 million
passengers.
Ink
Publishing wins contract to publish
inflight magazine for Wizz
Air, Central and Eastern Europe's
leading low cost airline
Ink
Publishing is taking off in Eastern
Europe, strengthening its position as the
company which produces more inflight
magazines than any other publisher in the
world.
London-based
Ink was selected following an extensive
tendering process to publish the inflight
magazine for low cost carrier Wizz Air,
which has bases in Hungary and Poland and
routes throughout Europe.
The
magazine will be in equal parts Hungarian,
Polish and English &endash; Ink is the
only publishing company Wizz Air felt
could effectively tackle such a
brief.
The
contract is further confirmation of Ink
Publishing's global capabilities and
sector expertise as a travel and business
publishing specialist.
Jeffrey
O'Rourke, Chief Executive of Ink
Publishing, said: "We are delighted to
have been selected from a strong field to
publish Wizz Air's inflight magazine,
which is a significant addition to our
portfolio and reinforces our position as a
leading international, multi-language
publisher.
"We are
pleased that the airline recognised Ink
for its capability in meeting its
international requirements. Our
partnership with Wizz Air carries us into
an exciting and growing new market and, as
a result, we are hiring additional
London-based editorial and sales
staff."
Mr
József Váradi, Chief
Executive Officer of Wizz Air, commented,
'We have been working closely with Ink to
come up with a really informative and
entertaining magazine, which stands out
from all the rest, with features and
guides that will highlight the best and
brightest from our exciting and unique
range of destinations. I am convinced that
this magazine in all details will truly
reflect the Wizz brand."
Wizz Air
began operating in May 2004 and has
already carried nearly 2 million
passengers.
From its
bases at Katowice, Warsaw and Gdansk in
Poland and Budapest, Hungary, it operates
services to 17 European and Scandinavian
destinations on 32 routes.
Services
on its fleet of Airbus 320s, liveried in
distinctive pink and purple, include
Brussels South Charleroi, Frankfurt Hahn,
Gerona, Liverpool, Luton, Milan Orio al
Serio, Rome Ciampino, Stockholm Skavsta
and Paris Beauvais-Tille.
About Ink
Publishing
Ink
Publishing is a fast-growing international
publishing company which produces inflight
magazines for more airlines than any other
publisher in the world. Ink's
award-winning titles include AirTran
Airways Go, Bangkok Airways in-flight
magazine, British Mediterranean Airways
Impressions, easyJet Inflight, MyTravel
Recline, Siem Reap International Airways
in-flight magazine, Tiger Airways
in-flight magazine, Virgin Express Red Hot
and VLM Airlines Velocity, as well as
Summit Hotels Summit magazine. Ink also
publishes Bradmans Business Travel Guides
to Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe
and North America.
Ink is the
publisher of European Business and CNN's
bi-monthly global travel magazine, CNN
Traveller, which reaches 850,000 readers
worldwide. Among Ink's online content
clients are The Diamond Trading Company,
eBookers, Fiat, Orange, The Royal Bank of
Scotland and Vodafone.
The
company has operations in the UK, US and
Singapore, with its headquarters in
London.
For more
information, visit
www.wizzair.com.
Media
contacts:
Julian
Reader, MPS International
Tel: +44
20 7348
6033
Mobile:+44 770 917716
Email:
jreader@mpsipr.com
Advertising
Enquiries:
Tel: +44
20 7613-8777
Email: wizzair@ink-publishing.com
Ink
Publishing
UK: +44 20 7613-8777 tel +44 845
280-2413 fax
Singapore: +65 6491-5262 tel +65
6491-5261 fax
USA: +1 888 685-1681 tel +1 646
349-3844 fax
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