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Successful Landing: HR Prompts Wizz Air to Correct the Error

Wizz Air is one of Europe's largest budget airlines. One eagle-eyed HonestReporting subscriber noticed the following while browsing the latest…

By December 06, 2022
Successful Landing: HR Prompts Wizz Air to Correct the Error

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”:

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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Simon Plosker

Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020.

Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias.

Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.

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