For several months now, Budapest Airport has been in continuous exchange with its airline partners and other airports around the globe to learn, create and roll out best practices for handling the smooth and safe return of meaningful passenger traffic to the airport, while adhering to all existing and potential future regulations. The airport operator […]
Budapest Airport is introducing a quality assurance system encompassing all phases of pharmaceutical transportation in Hungary, with the management of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The aim of the project, launched together with freight forwarder, transporter and ground handling companies, is to ensure that medical supplies should reach their targets under strictly controlled circumstances, […]
Singapore Airlines (SIA) will be the world’s first airline to pilot the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Travel Pass mobile application for digital health verification, starting with passengers travelling from Singapore to London from 15 to 28 March 2021. A SIA press statement says that this marks the second phase of its digital health verification […]
Qatar Airways says it will soon become the first global airline to offer passengers 100% Zero-Touch technology for its award-winning Oryx One in-flight entertainment system across the A350 fleet as part of the airline’s latest COVID-19 safety measures. The Zero-Touch technology, introduced in partnership with the Thales AVANT IFE system, will enable A350 passengers to […]
Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport handled 66,148 passengers during the first month of 2021, registering a 94.3% drop compared to the same month of the previous year when the coronavirus pandemic had not yet appeared in Europe. As the latest bulletin by the airport management company Budapest Airport points out, the tightening of regulations and […]
The developments implemented at Ferenc Liszt International Airport have resulted in a clearly perceptible increase in service quality – this is the conclusion from the international passenger satisfaction survey (ASQ) carried out during the last quarter of 2020. As part of the survey, travelers rated the services used at the airport, based on 37 different […]
This past Sunday, Qatar Airways celebrated ten years of linking the Hungarian capital with the capital city of Qatar, Doha and the Qatar Airways global network. Ir was on January 17, 2011, that the inaugural flight, an Airbus A320 carrying VIP guests touched down in Budapest and was greeted with a traditional water-cannon salute (see […]
With the ending a week ago of Qatar’s blockade, introduced in 2017 by several Arab states, Qatar Airways is allowed to use Saudi airspace again and it resumed daily flights from Doha to Saudi Arabia earlier this week. A plane operated by the national carrier of the State of Qatar landed in Riyadh earlier this […]
Budapest Airport, the operator of the Liszt Ferenc International Airport of the Hungarian capital, expects passenger numbers to increase from the summer schedule period, and awaits the gradually surging traffic with a safe, renewed environment and even higher service quality. The coronavirus pandemic had a strong impact on aviation as a whole in 2020. The […]
The most frequent service in the first month of the year will be between Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Aurport and Amsterdam by KLM, while Wizz Air is scheduled to operate flights to 22 destinations. Other airlines flying from Budapest with a weekly frequency of more than ten departing flights are Lufthansa (14 times a week […]
Airlines operating flights to Budapest are offering an expanded portfolio of destinations for the festive period. Aerial connections have been announced to a total of 51 destinations from the middle of December, so that those who are able to spend the holidays with their loved ones can do so. November traffic: 49,283 passengersAs expected, traffic […]
Budapest Airport and the Center for Budapest Transport (BKK) have joined the transnational initiative DANOVA, a project of innovative transportation services for blind and partially sighted passengers in the Danube Region. DANOVA is a transnational cooperation project financed from the Interreg Danube research and development program of the European Union, aimed at making airports, ports, […]
The airline says its fleet of modern, fuel-efficient aircraft has enabled it to continue flying throughout the pandemic and lead the industry in offering global connectivity with more than 700 weekly flights to over 100 destinations. According to a statement by Qatar Airways, the airline will increase services and upgrade aircraft to several destinations, including […]
It’s not just people locked into their homes due the epidemic who dream of a post-coronavirus epidemic. Many are already starting to plan their first trips after vaccination, so National Geographic has compiled a list of 25 ideal post-quarantine destinations, including the Hungarian region of Hortobágy. Framed by five categories (Adventure, Culture and History, Nature, […]
The general satisfaction level of respondents to a recent survey by Budapest Airport confirms the continuous increase in the quality of passenger services and the airport environment. Every quarter, the international passenger satisfaction survey on airport service quality (ASQ) is the most important indicator for Budapest Airport, as it enables travelers to provide feedback on […]
