Hi and welcome to my Prague trip!
Planned flights:
Outbound: TLV (Tel Aviv, Israel) -> PRG (Prague, Czechia) W6 A320 Y
Inbound: PRG (Prague, Czechia) -> TLV (Tel Aviv, Israel) QS B738 Y
Our plane, HA-LWA which is an A320 with the old livery is on the way:
Wizz Air operation in Israel:
Wizz Air started its operation in 2012 when they launched the first route: Budapest - Tel Aviv. The airline continued to grow up and launching direct and cheap flights to cities in Eastern Europe & Luton.
From October 2015 the airline offers flights from Ovda Airport (near Eilat) to Bucharest, Warsaw, Katowice, Riga, and Prague. Those routes used to be for European tourists in the winter.
Wizz Air has 17 routes from Tel Aviv from that destinations:
Prague, Lublin, Warsaw, Katowice, Vilnius, Riga, Kosice, London - Luton, Budapest, Debrecen, Sofia, Varna, Bucharest, Timisoara, Craiova, Cluj Napoca and Iasi.
and 5 routes from Eilat - Ovda from that destinations:
Warsaw, Katowice, Prague, Riga, and Bucharest.
Before flight:
Since June 2017, all the flights of UP (by El Al), Ryanair, EasyJet, Wizz Air and some flights of Pegasus Airlines depart including passport control from Terminal 1 which was the oldest terminal until terminal 3 was opened in 2004.
This is the entrance to Terminal 1:
It seems to be a busy day today for Wizz Air in Terminal 1: They will operate 9 flight on this day! (Flights will operate today to Sofia, Craiova, Bucharest, Budapest, Riga, Prague, Varna, Warsaw and Lublin).
The Check-In hall was busy:
My flight had a delay:
The airside of Terminal 1: It is a pretty crowded hall with enough duty-free shops but only one cafe! It's isn't enough for many hungry travelers!
Many flights today!
MNG Cargo A300-600 arrived from IST (Istanbul, Turkey):
Another A320 of Wizz Air before departure to OTP (Bucharest, Romania):
The Tamrac:
LOT Boeing 737-800 landed from LUZ (Lublin, Poland):
Ready for departure!
Finally, boarding started:
Durning the bus ride I saw the brand new addition to El Al's fleet: 4X-EDA, Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner which landed in Israel just 4 days before my flight!
Boarding for an A320 of Easyjet that will heading out to GVA (Geneva, Switzerland):
I can see our plane!
Why are you taking the stairs????
We had to wait in the bus for more 10 minutes untill the delivery of the other stairs!
Finally, I could reach the plane!
The cabin looks fairly nice:
but the legroom was less nicely, but good for 4 hours flight:
Ads everywhere!
Boarding completed!
EasyJet Airbus A320 before flight to BSL (Basel, Switzerland):
We are on the radar!
Taxi for runway 26:
Two heavies from America are meeting in the Middle East!
Take off!
The Israeli Coast:
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Front cabin durning takeoff:
Over the mediterean sea:
After 35 minutes of flight:
It's time to check that lavatory:
I was little bit hungry, so I bought a can of 7UP, Cabbanos for 7 EUR. Also I bought 2 diecast models. (each one costs 10 EUR):
Wizz Air has many destinations!
Kos Island, Greece:
It was cloudy when we entered to the Bulgarian Airspace:
I guess that this is the Danbue river:
Cabin walking:
View of Hungary:
After 3 hours and 20 minutes it was the time to descend into PRG:
Before touchdown:
N touchdown!
I can see spoters!!!! If you are one of the Prague Spotters, please contact me :)
Qatar Airways A320 landed from DOH (Doha, Qatar):
The big boss arrived from DXB (Dubai, UAE):
We reached our parking area:
Bye bye our A320! It was a great flight!
And the big boss again!
Our plane seen from the bus that took us to the terminal:
Hi Yonathan, and thank you for your report.
I always appreciated this little european airlines (well, not so little now° which is growing and growing up. I didn't know they were operating so many flights from TLV.
The terminal 1 looks like many secondary airports in Europe like the ones used by Ryanair.
Great view from the israeli coast.
See you!
Thank you so much! Yep I prefer to use Terminal 1 instead of T3 (The main terminal) because the queues are much shorter :)