As of May 4, American Airline, the world's largest airliner, will have scheduled daily flights between the Hungarian capital and the city of Philadelphia on the east coast of the United States, according to a communiqué by Budapest Airport and the US airliner.
German air carrier Lufthansa will modify its timetable and increase its number of flights between Budapest and Frankfurt. Starting from 11 December 2017, it will fly on this route five times a day and will also have an adjusted timetable.
LOT Polish Airlines has announced to create a direct air link between Budapest and the United States as of next May. Flights four times a week to New York City JFK and twice a week to Chicago O'Hare airports will commence in May 2018.
TAP Portuguese airlines has relaunched its air connection (seven times over six days a week) between the Poruguese and Hungarian capitals. It takes 3.5 hours for the airline's Airbus A319 aircraft to fly the 2,478 kilometers between the two cities.
Hungary-based budget airline Wizz Air reports a jump in profits for the first quarter of 2016. The airline also saw halving of its intended second half growth to the UK and re-deploying this capacity to other non-UK routes due to the outcome of the Brexit vote.
Budapest Airport says it has achieved a unique triple success as it won the title of 'Best Airport in the Eastern Europe region' for the third consecutive year. The award was handed over at the ‘Passenger Terminal EXPO’ in Cologne, Germany.
Jost Lammers, the chief executive officer of Budapest Airport received a high-ranking accolade from the Hungarian National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers. He was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” at an award gala held at the Palace of Arts.
A biometric ID system has started operating at border control in Budapest's Liszt Ferenc International Airport. Zoltán Török, head of the Airport Police Directorate, said that the system operated on the departure side in order to ensure fast border control.
As of this week, El Al Airlines of Israel flies its Budapest-Tel Aviv route once a week with a Boeing 747-400 aircraft. The first Jumbo Jet landed at Budapest airport this Tuesday. The same type of plane will fly this route for the next seven weeks.
Budapest Airport remained closed on Friday afternoon and evening due to an electric problem affecting the control tower and is scheduled to be reopened at 10 a.m. on Saturday, December 8, but this could still be subject to change.
Hungarian Airlines Malév is to get a HUF 8.5 billion (EUR 31.17 m) capital injection from the state that is re-channeling this sum in the budget as an extraordinary government measure. The carrier already got an injection in June.
US air carrier American Airlines has begun a new non-stop daily service between New York City's JFK airport and the Hungarian capital Budapest. The first flight landed in Budapest Wednesday morning and returned to JFK before noon.
American Airlines and Malev will launch a daily direct Budapest-New York flight on April 6, the vice president for the region at the American air carrier, Kurt Stache announced at a press conderence in Budapest on Tuesday.
Qatar Airways operate four Airbus A320 aircraft a week on a route between Budapest and Doha International Airport with a short stopover in Bucharest as of this January. Direct flights will start in September.
