Wizz Air selling All You Can Fly pass

Wizz Air is currently selling an “All You Can Fly” pass that isn’t quite as good as the name suggests but could nonetheless make for a very good deal for someone with a lot of flexibility, an expat living in Europe, or perhaps a student studying abroad.

The Deal

• Low cost carrier Wizz Air is selling an All You Can Fly pass for 599 Euro for a year of unlimited flying for a fee of 9.99 Euro per segment.
• Direct link to this deal

Key Terms

• You can only book within 3 days of departure
• You must pay a fee of 10 Euro for each reservation
• The entire international route network is theoretically available, though there are no minimum guarantees (and you can’t book domestic flights within Italy).
• Already-booked All You Can Fly flights cannot be modified. If a change is needed, a new ticket must be purchased
• Except for Israeli residents, All You Can Fly is automatically renewed each year. Subject to the general terms and conditions, All You Can Fly may be withdrawn from within the initial withdrawal period (within 30 calendar days from the date of purchase of the initial membership as long as you do not use the voucher for your first flight) or terminated each year before the end of the subscription period.
• if you miss 2 flights (so-called “no-shows”) in an eligible period, Wizz Air reserves the right to terminate the membership with immediate effect and without the option of a refund. In addition to that, you might be subject to a contractual penalty up to the amount of the voucher fee.

Quick Thoughts

I’ve flown Wizz Air a couple of times in recent years, most recently from Copenhagen to Bucharest as a positioning flight during our recent Million Mile Madness. I also flew them from Dubai to Budapest during our 3 Cards 3 Continents challenge. I was pleasantly surprised both times.

Wizz Air is a low cost carrier, so you have to expect to pay extra for things like checked bags, seat assignment, etc — but if you go in knowing what to expect, I think it’s not a bad way to fly. Keep in mind that this all you can fly membership does not include anything beyond the seat and a personal item — you’ll have to pay extra for a full-size carry-on bag, seat selection, etc.

This “All You Can Fly” pass certainly isn’t a slam dunk. You’ll need both a lot of flexibility and the ability to travel a lot of times to make this worthwhile. It is very much reminiscent of the Frontier “Go Wild” pass that Carrie took for a spin, and I imagine many will have similarly mixed feelings about this.

The pass isn’t cheap at 599 Euro. Considering the fact that many Wizz Air flights are quite cheap, you might be able to fly 10 or more times on Wizz Air for that amount of money, so for starters, I’d want to know that I’ll use it enough times to pay an average price that is well below what it would have cost me to pay for my flights separately.

You’ll further need to keep in mind the “gotchas”.

The first gotcha is that you can only reserve tickets within 3 days of travel. That means you can’t really use this pass for trips where you need to be somewhere since it is impossible to know whether you’ll have a seat until that 3-days-in-advance window opens. Instead, you’ll need to use this as a vehicle for spontaneous travel, being willing to head off to “wherever’s available” during the times when you’re available to travel. That’s not necessarily a deal-breaker for everyone; when my wife and I spent about 3 months renting an apartment in Berlin years ago, we worked remotely from Monday to Thursday and then took off every Friday to spend a 3-day weekend going somewhere. Of course, the problem with a pass like this is that you don’t know when you’ll be able to go back “home” unless you’re booking very short trips where both directions will occur within the 3-day window.

The second gotcha is that you’ll pay a 9.99 Euro fee per segment to reserve each ticket. You’re therefore not really buying unlimited flights but rather unlimited flight discounts whereby your pass drops the price to 9.99 Euro per segment. Depending on what the cost would have been to book your chosen flights, your discount could work out to be really good or just lukewarm. And if you use the pass for 10 segments, you’ll have to add that ~100 Euro on top of the 599 Euro cost of the pass and determine whether or not it worked out.

Finally, terms indicate that if you miss / no-show 2 flights, they reserve the right to cancel your pass and keep your money. That’s a crummy policy given that you’re essentially buying what is spoiling inventory anyway and the more times you travel the greater the likelihood that you’ll get a flat tire or something at some point.

However, the flip side of the downsides is that the pass could work out really well for those who value spontaneity and hate the typical nonrefundability of low cost carrier travel.

Personally, I hate to lock myself into nonrefundable plans far in advance, which is one of the many reasons I appreciate award travel. I’m typically not one to book a nonrefundable low cost carrier flight far in advance even if it’s pretty cheap. A pass like this might effectively get me cheap-ish pricing on low-cost-carrier flights without the need to commit far in advance. Of course, you do need to commit far in advance by some measure since you need to pay for 599 Euro for the pass far in advance without any idea of what availability is going to look like within 3 days of departure. It just wouldn’t make sense without a lot of flexibility.

Still, if you have that flexibility, it could be worth it. I could imagine that a college student spending a semester abroad might have enough weekends (and perhaps a summer?) to hop around Europe wherever the wind will take them. Better yet, a retiree / expat / remote worker could probably have a lot of fun. Keep in mind that Wizz Air flies all around Europe and also to places like Dubai and even the Maldives.

The market for this is pretty niche, but nonetheless I find it interesting even if not a fit for me.

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