Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport marked the 75th anniversary of its opening with historic records. The airport set records for both passenger and cargo volume last year, with the airport community managing the soaring passenger traffic seamlessly even during peak periods, according to a press statement by the airport operator Budapest Airport, part of the […]
The number of flights HungaroControl's air traffic controllers managed in Hungarian airspace rose 8.2% to 1,245,813 in 2025, the state-owned company told MTI on Monday. Overflights, that is, transit traffic accounted for nearly 85% of air traffic in Hungary, reflecting the country's key transit role in European air transport. HungaroControl expects further traffic growth in […]
"According to plans, both runways at the airport will reopen at 1 p.m., so practically at any moment. We have cleared and de-iced the runways, but the highest, level three snow alert remains in effect at the airport," Katalin Valentinyi, Chief Corporate Communications and Government Relations Officer at the operator company Budapest Airport on Tuesday […]
Arriving and departing flights are being temporarily halted at Liszt Ferenc International due to black ice and extreme icing, operator Budapest Airport said on Tuesday. Flights were halted at 10:25 for safety reasons, Budapest Airport added. In an update a little before noon, Budapest Airport said that the nose gear of Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight […]
One and a half million passengers and more than 40,000 tons of cargo were registered in November at Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport, the airport's operating company, Budapest Airport said in its bulletin this Wednesday. 1,552,078 passengers traveled through Ferenc Liszt International Airport in November, 11% more than in the same period last year, while […]
HungaroControl's air traffic controllers (ATCs) managed 950,926 flights in Hungarian airspace in January-September, 7% more than in the same period a year earlier, the state-owned company said on Tuesday. The most notable month was August, with 137,374 aircraft. According to forecasts, the expected annual traffic volume could reach 1.2-1.3 million aircraft. Despite the significant increase […]
The airline Wizz Air broke its own passenger traffic record again in 2024, carrying 63 million passengers on almost 300,000 flights, a 23% increase compared to 2023, the airline told MTI on Thursday. In 2024, 6.4 million passengers travelled from Hungary with Wizz Air, a 23% increase compared to 2023. Last year, Wizz Air launched […]
Never before has the volume of traffic in Hungary's airspace been as high as in 2024, with HungaroControl's experts handling more than 1.1 million aircraft in the year, almost 6% more than in the previous year, the Hungarian air traffic service provider told MTI on Thursday. According to the information, the year 2024 brought the […]
