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SCHROTH Safety Products and Wizz Air announce collaboration on aircraft seatbelts

Wizz Air is expanding its presence in Spain with the launch of two new bases
Wizz Air is expanding its presence in Spain with the launch of two new bases © AirTeamImages

SCHROTH Safety Products has signed an agreement with Wizz Air and its partner airlines within the Indigo Partners group to become the selected passenger seatbelt supplier for their new fleet of Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft. In total, this programme represents more than 100,000 SCHROTH AirLite® passenger seatbelts.

With this deal, SCHROTH is adding five new aircraft operators to its airline customer base, including Wizz Air, Frontier, Volaris, JetSMART, and Enerjet.  Following the announcement of this major milestone, SCHROTH CEO Martin Nadol commented: “Safety through technology is the core value of our business. We are very excited to be given the opportunity to work with Wizz Air and the Indigo Partner airlines for this very important and large project. I am extremely proud of the great work our team did to prove to all the airlines in the group why SCHROTH is the right partner for them.”

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