Photo: Getty Images How does the prospect of a year of unlimited flights within Europe and as far as the Maldives for a flat fare of €9.99 per hop sound? Well, if you’re tempted, you have until midnight tonight (Thursday, August 15) to sign up for the Wizz Air “all you can fly” deal in return for a payment of €499 – miss the deadline and the same deal will cost €100 more. The offer is effectively a standby deal: you can only book your flight 72 hours ahead – and, as you may imagine, a fair number of terms and conditions apply.
No. They were big in the 1990s, in the US at least. You paid around €350 to Delta or Northwest and flew around America and even Canada on a shoestring for a month.
Like the new deal with Wizz Air, it was a standby ticket – but it was also completely free. You would turn up, show your ticket and step on board if there was at least one empty seat. The Wizz Air “All you can fly” deal is rather different.
You pay the upfront fee of €499 by midnight on August 15, which works out at €41.58 per month. From August 16 onwards the fee rises to €599.
For each flight you book online a maximum of three days ahead, and you must pay a flat fee of €9.99 for each flight. Yes.
The deal extends across almost all the Wizz Air network, which extends far and wide: Reaching some of those is a bit of a stretch: to get from Luton to the Maldives you will need to fly to somewhere in eastern Europe, then to Abu Dhabi and onwards to the Maldives. Th.