American Airlines has launched a direct service between Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD) and Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) in the United States this Monday. Flights are operated using Boeing 767-300 aircraft.

The Polish national airline, LOT, launched its first direct flight between the Hungarian capital and the southern Polish city of Kraków this Wednesday. The airline's Bombardier Dash 8 planes fly this route six times a week with a flight time of one hour.

As of October 28 this year, the start of the winter schedule, Air France's new generation airline, JOON (founded in 2017), flies passengers from Budapest's Liszt Ferenc International Airport to the Charles DeGaulle Airport of the French capital.

Finnair, the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland, has announced at a joint press conference with Budapest Airport that it will have three daily flights between the Hungarian and Finnish capitals in the summer period this year.

From May this year, LOT Polish Airlines is going to operate regular flights between Budapest and the southern Polish city of Kraków six times a week. Prior to that, from April 28, the airline will operate on that route five flights per week.

Qatar Airways has announced that in February it will be the first airline to ever fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Budapest. For two days, February 25 and 28, it will upgrade its service to a Boeing 787 Dreamliner due to increased passenger demand.

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, and one of Europe’s fastest growing airlines, has announced that it would add Austria as the 44th country in its network, by establishing base operations at Vienna Airport.

Qatar Airways will introduce the Airbus A330 on the Budapest-Doha route in summer 2018. The addition of this aircraft will increase seat capacity by more than 53% over the current A320 aircraft that currently operates both of the double daily frequencies.

Wizz Air Holdings Plc, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, finalizes a deal with Airbus S.A.S. relating to the purchase of 146 Airbus A320neo family aircraft (72 A320neo and 74 A321neo types) to more than double its fleet.

Traffic at Budapest Airport has broken another record, as the number of passengers exceeded 12 million by the end of November. Thanks to the dynamic growth, more than one million passengers used the terminals in November, for the first time ever.

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, announces that, following the acquisition of a number of take-off and landing slots from Monarch Airlines, it will increase its fleet at London Luton by two aircraft to a total of seven.

Hungarian low-cost airline WizzAir has launched flights to a new destination from Budapest: Agadir in southern Morocco. The airliner operates this flight twice a week with Airbus A320 aircraft. The first flight was fully booked as the plane left the Hungarian capital.

Iberia, the Spanish national airline, has announced that, unlike in previous years, it will operate flights between Budapest and Madrid in the winter season from 2017, with three weekly flights on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.

As of next April, the Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair will start a new route between Budapest and Santander in northern Spain after an agreement with the government of the province of Cantabria, according to the daily El Diario Montañés.

Fourteen racehorses bred in Hungary were flown to China last week, on board Cargolux’s Boeing 747. The Friesian and Shagya Arabian horses, trained specifically for combined driving, took off from Budapest Airport in special freight containers.