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Wizz Air
Wizz Air, the largest low fare – low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, carried more than 11 million passengers in the last 12 months. The airline's fleet currently consists of 34 Airbus A320 aircraft operating from 15 bases, in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Serbia and Lithuania.
Fera has been working with Wizz Air from 2009 on bird strike risk management. More, than 20 European airports have been visited as a part of this project.
“Together with Fera we were able to manage the unmanageable – broke the increasing bird strike rate and drive it below the tolerable level as a result of very professional standard checks followed by valuable safety recommendations to our main airports across Europe”.
Birdstrike avoidance team
Bird strikes are viewed by the aviation industry as the biggest manageable risk to air safety.
Fera has a team of expert specialists with unrivalled experience in bird hazard management that is able to offer a comprehensive range of services designed to help reduce the Birdstrike risk for airports and airlines.
Birdstrike prevention services:
- Airport Standards Checks
- Birdstrike Safeguarding Consultancy Service
- Airport Bird Hazard Management Training Courses
- Bird Remains Identification
- 13km Off-airfield Monitoring
The global airport industry benefits from Fera's bird management expertise. Our wide customer base includes the MoD, the majority of large civil airports in the UK including: BAA, London City Airport, Newcastle International Airport, Leeds Bradford International Airport, Liverpool John Lennon Airport and Birmingham International Airport, We have a wealth of experience working with smaller regional airports such as Jersey Airport, Isle of Man Airport, City of Derry Airport, Bristol Airport and HIAL.
Fera are currently the preferred advisors for the UK CAA and provide Bird Management training for their airport inspectors.
Internationally Fera work extensively in Europe and have experience in working in the Far East, Australasia, South America, India, and are now working closely airline companies to reduce birdstrike risk through proactive independent Bird Hazard Management Auditing.
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