A large-scale series of developments spanning several years and including the maintenance of the airport taxiway system is under way. This year, as part of the work phase lasting until the fall, taxiways P1-P3, L, R and Q will be refurbished, thus facilitating the safe, efficient and long term handling of the increasing traffic. As […]

In preparation for the expected traffic increase, Budapest Airport has begun recruiting manpower to be able to provide for the safe operation of the Ferenc Liszt International Airport with an appropriate number of colleagues, as moderate traffic returns. According to the latest Airport Bulletin, 114 employees have arrived in the open positions recently; 75 of […]

Low-cost airline Wizz Air has announced this week its 43th base in Rome together with the biggest number of routes ever announced ny the airline at the same time. Wizz Air will base four Airbus A321neo aircraft at Rome Fiumicino airport in July 2021. The 32 new services to 19 countries announced this week will […]

As expected, the volume of passenger traffic Ferenc Liszt International Airport is still just a fraction of what it used to be before the pandemic restrictions but it is growing - as is the number of airlines returning to the Hungarian capital, according to the latest Airport Bulletin. 64,861 passengers in AprilBudapest Airport handled 64 […]

Following the last quarter of 2020, the volume of cargo handled at Ferenc Liszt International Airport increased further in the first quarter of 2021. The 39 529 tons of cargo handled from January to March means a 19.3% increase from the same period of the previous year, and is the strongest quarter in the history […]

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 […]