The last departing flight from Terminal 1 at Budapest Airport left for Stuttgart, Germany Tuesday night. The terminal is expected to be closed for five years for reduced traffic. So, as of May 30, all carriers use Terminal 2.
After the collapse of the country’s national carrier Malév, Budapest Airport, the operator of the Liszt Ferenc International Airport, decided to close down Terminal 1 as Terminal 2 is deemed sufficient to manage the reduced traffic.
Malév was the biggest player on the Budapest airport, carving out over 30% of total passenger traffic. After its collapse, a number of airlines announced capacity boosts at the Liszt Ferenc Airport but Budapest Airport expects to have lost the transit passengers now that Malév is out of the picture. There were 1.5 million transit passengers recorded in 2011, which corresponded to 17% of total traffic last year.
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