Who owns Wizz Air?
Wizz Air is owned by Wizz Air Holdings Plc (Hungary, LSE: WIZZ).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Wizz Air Holdings Plc Annual Report and Accounts F26 (year ended 31 March 2026). Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Wizz Air Holdings Plc reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇭🇺 Hungary, Budapest
- Origin
- 🇭🇺 Hungary, Budapest
- Founded
- 2003
- Category
- Travel & transport › Airlines
- Parent ticker
- LSE: WIZZ
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Wizz Air
Wizz Air is the ultra-low-cost airline founded in Hungary in 2003, and Wizz Air Hungary was the first carrier to be issued an air operator certificate by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency rather than by a national regulator. It flies a single family of Airbus narrowbodies from close to 40 bases, and in the year to March 2026 it pulled capacity back into central and eastern Europe, adding aircraft at Skopje, Sofia, Varna, Warsaw, Katowice, Gdansk, Tirana, Bucharest and Chisinau while closing its Abu Dhabi base and winding down Vienna.
Ownership timeline of Wizz Air
Where Wizz Air sits in Wizz Air
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Wizz Air
Wizz Air controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in travel & transport.
Also in travel & transport
Other brands in airlines, and who owns them
The 509 brands in airlines on Brandtree belong to 341 owners. The largest is Lufthansa Group, with 10; Wizz Air has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Air Dolomiti | Lufthansa Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| China Southern Airlines | China Southern Airlines | 🇨🇳 China |
| Air China | Air China | 🇨🇳 China |
| Aer Lingus | IAG | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| LATAM Airlines Brasil | LATAM | 🇨🇱 Chile |
| Air France | Air France-KLM | 🇫🇷 France |
| AirAsia | AirAsia X | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Calm Air | Exchange Income | 🇨🇦 Canada |
About the owner: Wizz Air
Wizz Air is a publicly listed company headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, founded in 2003. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: WIZZ.
Wizz Air Holdings is the parent of the ultra-low-cost airline group run from Budapest, though the company itself is incorporated in Jersey and its shares trade in London. It operates through four airline subsidiaries — Wizz Air Hungary, Wizz Air UK, Wizz Air Malta and Wizz Air Abu Dhabi LLC, the last of them 49 per cent held and due to be liquidated after flights ended in September 2025. In the year to 31 March 2026 it carried 69.7 million passengers on 262 Airbus A320 and A321-family aircraft, across more than 1,016 routes to close to 200 destinations in 45 countries, for revenue of €5,691.4 million and a net profit of €1.3 million.
🇭🇺 Wizz Air and other Hungarian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 28 brands that began in Hungary. 6 of them (21%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Wizz Air is not one of them.
- MÁV-START — MÁV 🇭🇺
- Allegro.hu — Allegro 🇵🇱
- Bábolna Takarmány — Bonafarm 🇭🇺
- Fütyülős — Zwack Unicum 🇭🇺
- Globus — Bonduelle 🇫🇷
- Goldenfood — LDC 🇫🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Wizz Air?
The parent company of Wizz Air is Wizz Air Holdings Plc, a publicly listed company headquartered in Hungary.
Is Wizz Air Hungarian?
Yes. Wizz Air originated in Hungary in 2003 and its owner, Wizz Air Holdings Plc, is also headquartered in Hungary.
Is Wizz Air still owned by Wizz Air Holdings Plc?
Yes. As of 22 September 2026, Wizz Air is still owned by Wizz Air Holdings Plc. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Wizz Air Holdings Plc Annual Report and Accounts F26 (year ended 31 March 2026) — Wizz Air Holdings Plc, Annual report; retrieved 22 September 2026.
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