The Hungarian capital’s Ferenc Liszt National Airport has been voted the best European airport among airports with 15-25 million passengers, based on passenger feedback – as published by Airports Council International (ACI). The accolade is based on an international and independent survey, relying solely on passenger feedback. According a statement by the airport’s managing company, […]
The railway passenger transportation company MÁV-Start has put into service all 40 KISS double-decker multiple units delivered to the company by Stadler under the framework contract signed in 2017, completing the railway company's fleet of double-decker multiple units. Zoltán Pafféri, Chairman and CEO of the mother company MÁV, stressed at a press conference at the […]
In November, the slowdown in traffic at Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport, which started in October, continued; after 80-81% in the summer, the airport’s passenger traffic reached only 76% of the 2019 level in the eleventh month of the year, which means that 969,888 passengers used the airport in November, the airport's management company Budapest […]
With the summer season over, passenger traffic at Ferenc Liszt International Airport is slowly decreasing, according to the latest bulletin published this Thursday by the airport's management company Budapest Airport. Although the monthly passenger number remained above one million in October, traffic compared to 2019 fell from 80-82% in the summer months to 79%. In […]
Korean Air, the national airline of South Korea, will offer two direct flights per week between Budapest and Seoul in the winter schedule, with frequency increases planned in the future. The carrier will operate the route with 269-seater Boeing B787-900 Dreamliners, on Mondays and Saturdays. Regardless of the travel class chosen, the fare includes meals […]
The growth in passenger numbers, typical of the summer months, continued in August, with a total of 1,299,814 passengers passing through Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. August was thus the third month in a row when passenger traffic reached or exceeded 80% of the record-breaking 2019 volume before the coronavirus pandemic, and the fourth month […]
Hungarians travelled abroad 4.7 million times between April and June this year, 53% more than in the same period a year earlier, but the number of trips abroad fell by 24% compared to the second quarter of 2019, according to the quarterly publication of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH). The most popular destinations were […]
In the spirit of quality and sustainability, developments at Ferenc Liszt International Airport have continued in 2022. In the first half of the year, the airport management company Budapest Airport says it spent a total of more than HUF 5.3 billion on various infrastructure and sustainability projects, bringing the total value of the past three […]
More and more people are choosing to fly again; passenger traffic at Ferenc Liszt International Airport reached 1,294,608 in July, 80% of the level before the pandemic in 2019 and up by more than 140% compared to the same period last year. The management company Budapest Airport says it prepared for the summer period both […]
The summer season at the Hungraian capital's Ferenc Liszt International Airport started with passenger traffic exceeding one million again in June 2022, with 1,208,169 passengers, according to the latest bulletin published by the facility's management company Budapest Airport. The airport returned to 82% of the 2019 figures, meaning that the airport is approaching the pre-pandemic […]
The onset of the summer season, the dynamic growth of post-Covid air traffic and the unprecedented staff shortage across Europe is creating huge challenges for airports across the continent. For weeks now, there have been reports of flight cancellations, delayed departures and arrivals, and ground handling disruptions. Thus, Budapest Airport, the management company of the […]
The Hungarian capital's Ferenc Liszt International Airport has once again been named the "best airport in Eastern Europe" at the 2022 World Airport Awards for the ninth consecutive year. The award was presented during a ceremony at the Passenger Terminal EXPO in Paris. A press release by the airport menegment company Budapest Airport says the […]
Ferenc Liszt International Airport reached its highest passenger volume in two years in May, with passenger traffic exceeding one million during the fifth month of the year, according to the latest airport bulletin published by the airport management company Budapest Airport. To be precise, 1,095,597 passengers used Budapest’s main airport in May, an increase of […]
Low-cost airline Wizz Air closed the 2021/2022 financial year ending March this year with a loss of EUR 642.5 million, up from EUR 576 million in the previous year, while its revenue more than doubled to EUR 1.66 billion from EUR 739 million in the previous year, according to a report published on the company's […]
The epidemic is less of a barrier to holiday planning this year, financial constraint is more of concern; although a higher proportion of respondents are planning a holiday abroad than last year, the proportion of those planning a domestic trip of at least five days has not changed in a year, and the majority are […]
