Wizz Air is one of Europe’s largest budget airlines. One eagle-eyed HonestReporting subscriber noticed the following while browsing the latest issue of the airline’s inflight magazine, which the publisher claims “has a captive audience of more than 10m travelers each issue”:
Imagine flying on @wizzair to Tel Aviv and seeing this in the latest inflight magazine. Apparently, Wizz Air doesn't know that the destination it flies to isn't actually Israel's capital city. https://t.co/0arqjPigbP pic.twitter.com/Ftexut25Wq
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) December 4, 2022
Erroneously referring to Tel Aviv as “the Israeli capital city” was particularly surprising given that Wizz Air operates a significant number of routes in and out of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. In August 2022 at the height of the summer, the airline operated 669 flights from Ben Gurion Airport, carrying 140,000 passengers, making it the fifth busiest airline there.
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HonestReporting contacted Wizz Air and LXM Media & Publishing, the company responsible for the inflight magazine. To its credit, LXM responded very quickly by correcting the online version of the magazine (below) and a confirmation that they would rectify the error in the following magazine with an Israel feature and explanation that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.
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