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Wizz Air launches £429 ‘All You Can Fly’ subscription …. but what’s the catch?

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Wizz Air has followed US airline Frontier to become the first European airline to launch an unlimited flight subscription package.

Wizz Air is selling 10,000 of these annual ‘All You Can Fly’ passes at an introductory price of €499 each, which works out at around £429. The normal price is €599 and will be charged from tomorrow, Friday. Each country has a set allocation of passes – once they are gone, they are gone.

What does £429 get you?

One thing’s for sure: the All You Can Fly pass does NOT get you free flights. You still need to pay a €9.99 (£8.57) booking fee every time you book a flight using your pass.

Here’s how it works:

  1. You purchase the All You Can Fly voucher on the Wizz Air Multipass page here.
  2. You then use your voucher to book your first one-way flight on the Wizz Air website (for free)
  3. Further flights within your subscription year can be booked for a flat fee of €9.99

The pass automatically renews on an annual basis at the standard price of €599. To stop it from renewing, simply cancel it before the renewal date. You can continue to use your benefits until that moment.

Flights can be booked under the All You Can Fly pass from the 25th September.

What’s the catch?

As you can imagine, this deal is not as good as it looks at face value. In addition to the €9.99 you need to pay for booking flights there are other restrictions to consider:

  • You can only book flights up to three days (72 hours) in advance, so only short notice travel is possible
  • The T&Cs are VERY vague about the circumstances under which seats will be made available. It is NOT ‘if we have an empty seat, you can have it’. The rules give Wizz unlimited flexibility to decide whether to release expensive last minute availability.
  • You can only book one-way tickets. That means that, in line with the above, you may be stuck at your destination longer than you planned for if your planned return flight is unavailable.
  • Your ticket includes only your airfare and a personal item. You need to pay extra for additional luggage (including cabin baggage), seat selection, priority boarding and more. The price varies depending on the length of flight, but a quick search for a flight from London to Prague indicates that you’d pay £34 for 10kg cabin bag as part of Wizz Priority or £28 to check 10kg in.
  • You can book a maximum of three one-way flights in a 24 hour period.
  • You should only book flights you intend to make: more than three no-shows and you are at risk of having your membership terminated

The full terms and conditions of the offer are here.

Where can I fly to with Wizz Air’s All You Can Fly subscription?

The good news is that you can use the subscription pass across the entire Wizz Air international network: the only flights not included are domestic Italian flights.

Wizz Air has a relatively extensive network now with hubs in Europe and Abu Dhabi, so you could feasibly use this pass to explore Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and even the Maldives.

Wizz Air’s main UK bases are at both Gatwick and Luton, although it does operate select routes to other UK airports from across its entire European network.

Is this worth it or just a marketing gimmick?

Whilst it sounds cool on paper, in reality the All You Can Fly pass is unlikely to wash its face for most people.

For a start, you’d need to by flying regularly to make the most of it. Assuming a one-way Wizz Air flight in Europe is normally around £50, you’d have to make at least eight flights for it to be ‘worth’ it.

Unless you’re an extremely light packer, you also need to factor in the cost of bags. Wizz Air’s service fees set out what you can expect to pay: between €11 and €83 for a 10kg, per flight. That can quickly add up.

My first thought was that the All You Can Fly pass would be attractive for backpackers on their gap year: after all, these people (and I was one of them once!) are cash-poor but time-rich and often make plans at the last minute.

However, even the lightest backpackers I met on my travels had more than a small personal item with them. If you’re staying away for many months you probably want more than two changes of clothes with you, plus whatever else you might need day-to-day.

Factor in the €9.99 and an average (let’s say) €35 baggage fee, that ‘free’ flight suddenly doesn’t look so cheap any more.

It’s not great for regular business travellers either, as the 3-day booking window (and lack of guaranteed availability) makes it hard to plan far in advance. Imagine using your All You Can Fly pass to book a flight to a very important sales meeting only to find out that the flight you wanted is full. You’d be laughed out the room.

The only scenario I can see it working is if you are a regular commuter for work or you have a second home somewhere. If you are commuting between, for example, London and Malaga twice a week then suddenly it becomes interesting.

You could split you wardrobe between home and your midweek accommodation or second home and simply shuttle back and forth for €9.99/trip.

Conclusion

Wizz Air’s All You Can Fly pass is an interesting offer, but you should think carefully whether it makes sense for you. Don’t forget that Wizz Air was the least-punctual airline flying to or from the UK last year. You can see my review of the experience from a few years ago here.

As I outline above, there are a number of catches that make the offer less attractive than the headline marketing suggests. It is worth reading the full terms and conditions if you are seriously considering it.

Don’t forget that the introductory offer of €499 is only valid until the end of tonight. From tomorrow, Friday 16th August, the pass will cost €599. You can buy it on the Wizz Air site here.

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  • Hcubed says:
    15 Aug15 August 07:19

    @Rob – what do you make of 6.2 in the T&Cs? It essentially says that Wizz Air cannot guarantee that you will be able to book a flight as this is subject to multiple internal and external factors such as number of All You Can Fly pass holders, number of passengers booked and seats available on a given flight. Would Wizz be able to use this to introduce more restrictions eg no more than 2 All You Can Fly pass holders per flight?

    • Rob says:
      15 Aug15 August 07:36

      Those restrictions may already exist.

    • Rhys says:
      15 Aug15 August 08:32

      I read this as Wizz Air covering their backs in terms of seats not being available (sold out) rather than restricting availability. With all the other restrictions (72 hours, no baggage etc) I can’t see why they WOULDN’T want to sell you a seat at that point: after all, you’re quite likely to want to bay for some bags and the chances of the flight filling up further are slim.

      • Ken says:
        15 Aug15 August 08:52

        Maybe.

        I think you are correct if there are 20+ seats unsold.

        But what about if there are only 2 or 3 unsold for a popular city on a Friday afternoon.
        Will you be able to grab one of those when they may be on sale for £200 ?
        Maybe not.

        At least that’s the way I’d try and maximise revenue.

        • Rob says:
          15 Aug15 August 08:54

          Exactly. The last five sold seats could literally match 50 cheap seats in terms of revenue, so they are not giving those up.

        • john says:
          15 Aug15 August 10:38

          Yes. It sounds like a good way to offload capacity on flights that aren’t heavily loaded close to departure. Presumably this is the aim – why would they restrict to booking 3-days out otherwise? It sounds similar to the way BA release some unsold capacity to avios seats last minute.

          If they have a good way of booking these, then it could work well for weekend breaks. E.g. they would need a webpage that shows the flights with seat availability so you could determine if there is somewhere you would like to fly to. If you have to search for everything using the standard flight search then this could become tedious to find routes.

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
    15 Aug15 August 07:27

    If they sell them all that’s just under €5m in the bank for them even before the booking and other fees kick in.

    This is basically a selling off last minute inventory plan isn’t it.

    How long before the first “Wizz air shafted me” post / article ?

    • Qrfan says:
      15 Aug15 August 07:39

      I reckon the guy above flying UAE to UK via wizz multiple times a year is going to realise the error of that decision pretty quick! I’m looking forward to his end of year reader review…

      • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
        15 Aug15 August 07:50

        As @Rob replied to him it wouldn’t work for him anyway as there are no direct Wizz flights between UAE and UK and trying to coordinate non connecting flights would be a nightmare.

        • blenz101 says:
          15 Aug15 August 07:57

          Skyscanner can of course show you potential routes back by self connecting but as pointed out, even if those seats are for sale there is not guarantee they are available to passholders.

          • Chrisasaurus says:
            15 Aug15 August 08:12

            And in the worlds least punctual airline I think self-connecting would be up the mad end of any spectrum!

          • mhughes says:
            15 Aug15 August 09:38

            and that self connection now includes 2 x£9.99 and 2xcabin baggage fees

        • Ken says:
          15 Aug15 August 08:05

          Hardly a ‘gotcha’ as the poster was talking about 3 legs , so clearly was looking at self connecting.

          Sounds like a journey from hell though.

      • Londonsteve says:
        15 Aug15 August 15:01

        That depends. If the UAE-UK jetsetter was inserting short breaks in multiple CEE cities to break up the journey and thus rendering long layovers or tight connections an irrelevance, the total cost would still be less than buying direct flights to the UK…. You can comfortably do a 3 night stay including your daily spend as a tourist in Bucharest, Budapest, Sofia et al for £300. At that point the 4-5 hour flight on Wizz flying between AD and the transit city becomes far more bearable, after all, even flights from the UK to Turkey and Cyprus are almost always flown with short haul cabins.

    • Richie says:
      15 Aug15 August 07:52

      Here’s a bit from the CAA https://www.caa.co.uk/newsroom/news/regulator-s-enforcement-action-sees-over-1-million-refunded-to-wizz-air-passengers/

  • chris w says:
    15 Aug15 August 07:50

    Maybe they need two tiers of this?:
    – A basic tier for the €499 price with the rules stated above
    – A premium tier for €999 with more generous rules: Can book up to 5 days in advance, can book returns, and one cabin bag included.

  • Colin MacKinnon says:
    15 Aug15 August 07:56

    If you had a regular route, you could book fully-refundable tickets and then try and replace them with this at the last minute?

    In the good old days when BA’s SuperShuttle and British Midland were head-to-head on Anglo-Scottish routes, BA allowed a change of times on the return part of their cheapest tickets, whereas BM allowed a chage of time and date!

    So buying cheap tickets both ways for confirmed events – weddings, etc – gave me fully-flex tickets. Thinking there might be something you could do like that with Wizz?

    • Andrew. says:
      15 Aug15 August 08:38

      They both had loads of corporate deals too. Fixed price of £80 return for fully-flexible leisure travel on any BMI domestic flight as long as there was an economy seat available, I’ve probably still got the price list somewhere.

      It’s something I really miss about in-person check-in. In those days if you arrived at the airport early on one of those tickets, they’d proactively offer to put you on an earlier flight if there was a seat available.

  • BJ says:
    15 Aug15 August 07:57

    Air Asia has done this before too but I never bothered checking how it went. They also had multisector passes which were/are great for those travelling around the region on gap years, extended holidays or frantic short stays. The nature of Air Asia network is certainly far more suited to such products than either Frontier or Wizz. Perhaps some of our Asian expats or regular visitors can provide some more details or experience?

  • Simon says:
    15 Aug15 August 07:58

    You would have to pay me a lot more than £500 to travel with Wizz once, let alone unlimited times.

  • Bernard says:
    15 Aug15 August 08:05

    The biggest catch?
    It’s Wizz Air. An abysmal airline for customer service, punctuality, or sticking to CAA rules.
    Its CEO also tried to persuade pilots to break/bend EASA fatigue and rest rules.
    Definitely ‘buyer beware’ from this sham.
    Its shares are down over 40% this year. The markets clearly know its in trouble so I’d be very careful ‘investing’ in this product.

  • Ken says:
    15 Aug15 August 08:17

    A ludicrous assumption about retired people.

    • NorthernLass says:
      15 Aug15 August 09:42

      A former colleague of mine moved to Spain when he retired and travels back to the U.K. (and other European cities) at least a couple of times per month. His son is a pilot for another airline though, so I doubt he’d be interested in this offer, but it shows that there are people who could theoretically get a lot out of it. Wizz Air’s abysmal reputation is the sticking point however!

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