✈️ Wizz Air's 1-year All You Can Fly pass on sale for 1 day

Wizz Air is launching an All You Can Fly subscription. And if you buy it by the end of the day on Thursday 15 August, you can save £89. But should you?

Here's our take on this new service.

Details

All You Can Fly lets you book tickets on every Wizz Air route for 12 months. The annual fee is £445, rising to £534 from Friday 16 August.

Is it worth it? There are a fair few restrictions, and ultimately, the subscription won't make sense for most people.

But if you love travelling and are flexible and open-minded, it could be a great deal – and we tell you how to make your money back the fastest further down.

But first, let's look under the hood of All You Can Fly.

The service comes with seven pages of fine print. So we brewed a pot of strong coffee, put on our best reading glasses and tried to make sense of the T&Cs.

Here's what you should know:

Flights booked with the membership aren't 100% free.

You'll still need to pay a £9 flat fee per flight segment (that means £9 outbound, £9 inbound, or £18 each way if it takes two separate Wizz Air flights to get to your destination).

You'll also need to pay extra for carry-on and checked luggage (the membership only includes the usual small 40x30x20cm cabin bag).

You can only book flights departing in the next 72 hours, including return legs.

This is the biggest catch – you can't plan. You'll need to wait until the last minute to book your flights. Unless you book 24 hours before departure and intend only to stay 48 hours at your destination, you'll have to wait until three days before your return date to book your ticket.

The Wizz Air website says: "If there is no return flight available due to seat unavailability or if it is not within the 3-day (72 hours) booking window, you can book a flight using the regular booking process."

Regular booking process means, we suspect, "buy a full-price ticket".

All You Can Fly tickets aren't guaranteed on every flight

The above quote from the Wizz Air website makes it clear: you might not find All You Can Fly seats on every flight. The airline says availability will depend on "several external and internal factors" – so right now, we can't say how easy it will be to book these seats.

There are some date restrictions.

There are dates when All You Can Fly tickets won't be available. These include dates around Christmas and New Year's Eve, for example. You can find the list here.

If you change your mind, there's no refund.

Once you've paid your fee, you have a 14-day cooling-off period. After that, you're in for a whole year. You can't cancel the subscription for a partial refund. And you can't transfer the membership to someone else.

And while we're on this topic, the subscription auto-renews, so make sure to cancel it if you don't want to continue.

We recommend you read the full terms and conditions before committing.

🏴‍☠️ The Pirate take

Can this work? As it stands, All You Can Fly only makes sense if you fly regularly and are extremely flexible on when you travel and where you go. But if this sounds like you, you could quickly get your money's worth.

Here are our top three ways to rack up savings quickly:

• Regular weekend breaks: on a Thursday, check for All You Can Fly seats departing on Friday and returning on Sunday (both within the 72-hour window) -- that's unlimited weekend trips with flights for £18 return

• Peak-season travel: a London–Majorca flight in August with Wizz Air can set you back £162 each way. London-Cyprus can cost up to £170 each way. Score a few of these for the £9 flat fee, and your membership will soon look like a savvy investment

• Long-haul flights: Wizz Air has indirect flights to Abu Dhabi and the Maldives. While these will require paying the flat fee multiple times (once for each segment), you could find yourself in far-flung destinations for the costs of a Ryanair flight to Dublin

Additional Information

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