The Hungarian capital’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport's performance is set to explode in 2024. In the first eight months of the year, passenger traffic grew by 18.6% (to 11.4 million people) and cargo by 49.7% (to more than 184,000 tons), meaning that the airport is on track to break all previous records, according to a […]
This year’s travel season is still in full swing, but behind the scenes planning for next year is already well underway at Ferenc Liszt International Airport. In addition to attracting new exciting destinations and developing the airport, preparations are focused on celebrating a very important anniversary: Ferenc Liszt International Airport turns 75 on May 7, […]
In the 2024/25 winter schedule starting on October 27, there will be four flights a week on the Beijing - Budapest route, the airline's Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners will operate on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. In the winter schedule, the airline continues to fly once a week between Chongqing and the Hungarian capital, also with […]
Breaking the all-time record for June, more than 1.5 million passengers used Ferenc Liszt International Airport in the sixth month of the year. This brings the total traffic for the first half of the year to 7.9 million passengers, which is almost 7% higher than the first half of 2019, the record year before the […]
Low budget air carrier Wizz Air will launch four new flights this fall thanks to the expansion of its fleet in Budapest: from October it will be directly accessible by plane to Genoa, Girona, Marrakech, and from December to Memmingen. In addition, Wizz Air is increasing the frequency of its flights on several popular routes, […]
Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport welcomed two new Chinese flights in the last week of June, with the launch of direct Guangzhou-Budapest and Xi’an-Budapest flights. Together with the Budapest-Shenzhen route, which will join the new additions in August, a total of seven direct passenger flights will be available between Budapest and China, the airport operator […]
The first scheduled flight from Guangzhou, China, arrived at Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport on Thursday. China Southern airline flies four times a week between the Chinese metropolis and the Hungarian capital. Boglárka Illés, State Secretary for Bilateral Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFA), is of the view that the launch […]
The last year and a half have been the most successful period in the history of the Hungarian capital’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport and its operator, Budapest Airport. In addition to the company working continuously and successfully on recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, closing its second profitable year since the epidemic last year and the […]
The management company of the Hungarian capital's Ferenc Liszt International Airport, Budapest Airport ended 2023 with a net profit of EUR 74 million on net revenues of EUR 337.8 million, and over the past two years, it has reduced its losses accumulated under the new coronavirus epidemic to EUR 47 million. The company says it […]
A new air service will be launched between Hungary and China, so from June this year, a seventh Chinese city, Shenzhen, will be directly accessible from Budapest, with two flights a week, according to the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The day before, it was announced that from this summer, Xian will also […]
The BMW Group has signed a partnership agreement with Lufthansa concerning travel to and from its car factory in the eastern Hungarian city of Debrecen, under which larger-capacity planes will be operated between Debrecen and the southern German city of Munich on Mondays and Fridays, according to an announcement at a press conference in Debrecen […]
The Ferenc Liszt International Airport of the Hungarian capital has once again won Skytrax’s “Best Airport in Eastern Europe” award at the World Airport Awards. This year marks the eleventh time in a row that it has earned the prestigious accolade, based on passenger feedback, the management company Budapest Airport says in a statement. The […]
The new schedule that came into effect on March 31, the start of daylight saving time, at Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport allows passengers to choose from 130 direct destinations courtesy of 39 airlines in the summer season. A statement by the airport’s management company Budapest Airport says that its route development team and the […]
The Maltese airline Universal Air will operate two flights a week on the Malta-Pécs-Munich route from March 26, the company told MTI on Thursday. The company said in a statement that its flights using the Pécs airport will operate on the Malta-Munich route on Tuesdays and Fridays between March 26 and October 22, with a […]
The 200th aircraft has arrived in Wizz Air's fleet, reducing the average age of the airline's fleet to 4.2 years, the company told MTI on Tuesday. The new Airbus A321neo will be based at London-Luton Airport. The Airbus A321neo aircraft's avionics offer significant environmental benefits. The model can now fly on up to 50% sustainable […]
