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Record Air Traffic Passenger Growth in Budapest

D&T
Dec 13, 2024

The European arm of Airports Council International (ACI Europe) ranked Ferenc Liszt International Airport as the fastest growing European airport in October in terms of passenger traffic, the airport’s operator, Budapest Airport, powered by VINCI Airports, says in a statement. Passenger numbers in the first ten months of the year at the Hungarian capital’s Ferenc […]

Nine New Cities in Budapest Airport’s Winter Schedule

D&T
Oct 27, 2024

The bazaars of Marrakech, the Guggenheim Museum, Parisian romance, the famous Pink City are some of the new destinations offered by Budapest Airport’s winter schedule with nine new flights. As statement by the company, which is the operator of Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport, and is part of VINCI Airports, points out for the lovers […]

Ferenc Liszt International Airport in Top Form

D&T
Sep 15, 2024

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 […]

Budapest’s Main Airport Prepares for 75th Birthday

D&T
Aug 31, 2024

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, […]

Air China: More Flights between Beijing and Budapest

D&T
Aug 22, 2024

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 […]

Budapest Airport Closes Record First Half Year 

D&T
Aug 1, 2024

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 […]

Wizz Air to Launch Four New Flights Later This Year

D&T
Aug 1, 2024

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, […]

Serious Records Broken at Budapest's Main Airport

D&T
Jul 10, 2024

The Hungarian capital's Ferenc Liszt International Airport showed a significant increase in both passenger and cargo traffic in June. The number of passengers exceeded 1.5 million, which is higher than the data for the sixth month of the record year 2019 before the epidemic - based on the compilation of airportal.hu. This is how the […]

New Flights from Budapest to Guangzhou and Xi’an

D&T
Jun 30, 2024

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 […]

First Scheduled Flight from Guangzhou to Budapest

D&T
Jun 27, 2024

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 […]

Budapest Airport: 28 Awards and Accolades in 18 Months

D&T
Jun 3, 2024

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 […]

EUR 74 Mn Profit for Budapest Airport in 2023

D&T
May 31, 2024

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 […]

Direct Air Link to a Seventh Chinese City from Budapest

D&T
Apr 24, 2024

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 […]

Bigger Planes Fly between Debrecen and Munich

D&T
Apr 19, 2024

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 […]

Budapest Has the 'Best Airport in Eastern Europe'

D&T
Apr 18, 2024

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 […]

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