Budapest Airport: Preparation for the Restart

In preparation for the expected traffic increase, Budapest Airport has begun recruiting manpower to be able to provide for the safe operation of the Ferenc Liszt International Airport with an appropriate number of colleagues, as moderate traffic returns.

According to the latest Airport Bulletin, 114 employees have arrived in the open positions recently; 75 of them are returning colleagues whom the company had to let go last year during the headcount reduction brought about by the pandemic.

Staff are primarily being hired for roles that are indispensable for the safe handling of passenger traffic and the operation of the airport; mostly security screeners and the terminal operation and information teams. In addition, there will be more employees working in IT, and since Budapest Airport will maintain epidemiological measures intensively going forward, the sanitization team from Emergency Response has also been expanded.

Recruitment is still under way; more than seventy more people will join the BUD group soon. Based on Budapest Airport's current traffic forecast, they expect that in the short term, approximately 170 staff will be hired in total, following the headcount reduction last year.