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Jul 04, 2024 (newstodate): The Hungarian LCC Wizz Air is seemingly regaining confidence in its operations in Moldova.
   The carrier is thus to launch three weekly rotations on a route connecting Chisinau and Vienna, with the first flight on September 30, 2024.
   Wizz Air is currently operating flights to Chisinau from Budapest, Milan, Rome, Venice and London, but before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the low-cost airline based its aircraft at Chisinau serving a route network covering over 20 destinations.
    Wizz Air set up Wizz Air Ukraine as the country's first low-cost carrier with its launch on July 18, 2008, but rigid changes in Ukraine's aviation law forced Wizz Air to close down the subsidiary in 2015.
   Instead, Wizz Air returned to the Ukrainian market with own operations from 2016, and set up Chisinau Airport as a new base in March 2017.
   As late as in September 2022, Wizz Air was the 3rd largest operator at Chisinau Airport, averaging 11 daily arrivals and departures, and recovering some 92 percent of the traffic in 2019.
   However, the carrier pulled out from the Moldovan market from March 14, 2023, citing doubts about airspace security in the region after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and fears of further threats to Moldova from Russia.