{"id":573,"date":"2025-11-10T20:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/?p=573"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:44:58","slug":"wizz-air-to-offer-tickets-to-travel-in-baggage-holds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/2025\/11\/wizz-air-to-offer-tickets-to-travel-in-baggage-holds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizz Air To Offer Tickets To Travel in Baggage Holds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Budapest, Hungary<\/strong> \u2014 Wizz Air has announced a new ultra-low-cost travel option that lets passengers book tickets to travel inside the baggage hold. The company says this innovation will \u201credefine affordable flying in Europe.\u201d The new program, called <strong>Wizz Basic Below<\/strong>, is expected to launch next spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the airline\u2019s spokesperson, <strong>Bal\u00e1zs Szab\u00f3<\/strong>, the offer targets travelers who \u201cvalue savings over comfort.\u201d Each ticket will include a small blanket, safety briefing, and optional earplugs for an extra \u20ac2.99. Wizz Air claims that the baggage hold will be temperature-controlled and equipped with soft flooring for safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company believes this step will make air travel accessible to millions who cannot afford standard seats. Critics on social media compared the idea to \u201cflying inside a suitcase,\u201d but the airline insists it meets all <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easa.europa.eu\">European Union Aviation Safety Agency<\/a><\/strong> regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flights under the new plan will start on routes between <strong>Budapest<\/strong>, <strong>London Luton<\/strong>, and <strong>Warsaw Chopin Airport<\/strong>. Travelers can already sign up for early notifications through the official website <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wizzair.com\">wizzair.com<\/a><\/strong>. Despite the controversy, bookings for test flights filled up within hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wizz Air says this is only the beginning of \u201ca new era in low-cost travel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budapest, Hungary \u2014 Wizz Air has announced a new ultra-low-cost travel option that lets passengers book tickets to travel inside the baggage hold. The company says this innovation will \u201credefine affordable flying in Europe.\u201d The new program, called Wizz Basic Below, is expected to launch next spring. According to the airline\u2019s spokesperson, Bal\u00e1zs Szab\u00f3, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-wizzair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}