Buzz (Polish airline)

Initial operations as charter airline On 3 April 2018, the carrier received an air operator's certificate granted by the Polish Civil Aviation Authority. It started operations on 23 April 2018 and the first flight took place on 26 April 2018, on the route from Poznań–Ławica Airport to Zakynthos International Airport. In Poznan and Wroclaw the carrier will use the infrastructure of already existing bases, while in Katowice and Warsaw new ones were created. Representatives of the carrier announced that all five aircraft in the Ryanair Sun fleet would receive Polish registration numbers. During summer 2018, Ryanair Sun operated one own Boeing 737-800 registered as SP-RSA. The aircraft was employed on charter flights from Warsaw Chopin Airport. Starting from November 2018, several former Ryanair-operated Boeing 737 aircraft were moved from the Irish to the Polish registry and now operated by Ryanair Sun on behalf of its parent companies scheduled flights out of Poland. Rebranding to Buzz In March 2019, Ryanair announced that the airline would be rebranded as "Buzz" in autumn 2019. Buzz was formerly the name of a UK budget airline Ryanair bought from KLM in April 2003. Buzz will still operate scheduled and charter flights from its bases in Poland, Czechia, and Bulgaria and aimed to expand its fleet from 17 Boeing 737-800 aircraft to 25 by summer 2019. ==Fleet==

, Buzz operates an all-Boeing 737 fleet composed of the following aircraft: == Accidents and incidents ==

• On 23 May 2021, Ryanair Flight 4978, operated by Buzz, was diverted to Minsk National Airport after a false bomb threat was made while the aircraft was 45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) south of Vilnius and 90 nautical miles (170 km; 100 mi) west of Minsk, but still in Belarusian airspace. According to the airline, its pilots were notified by Belarusian authorities of "a potential security threat on board" and told to land the plane in Minsk. In Minsk, Belarusian journalist and opposition activist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend were deplaned and arrested. Although the plane was closer to Vilnius, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, according to his press service, personally ordered the flight to be redirected to Minsk and sent Belarusian Air Force MiG-29 fighter aircraft to escort it. • On 10 December 2023, smoke filled the cabin of a Boeing 737 MAX 200 (registration SP-RZG) during preparations for departure of flight FR 4626 from Arlanda Airport (ARN), Sweden to Kraków Airport (KRK), Poland. == See also ==