Increasing Traffic at Budapest Airport

As a sign of revival, 84,781 passengers were flying from Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport in June, the airport's management company reports.

A record number, more than 17,000 respondents participated in Budapest Airport’s survey carried out in June. The results reveal that 81% of interviewees plan to fly, with 67% intending to jet off from Budapest this year. The three most important criteria for participants were the price of the airline booking (30% of respondents selected this as the number one consideration), a safe airport environment and the introduction of appropriate safety measures on board.

Budapest Airport says it played a pioneering role in the introduction of health measures relating to the coronavirus pandemic; it safeguards the health of those present at the airport with all possible measures, in line with international recommendations, and awaits passengers in 2020 as well!

Aviation is restarting in more and more countries; more and more airlines are announcing the restart of flights to and from Budapest, and in some cases some brand new destinations as well. In the past few weeks, Wizz Air has launched four (Abu Dzabi, Menorca, Mykonos and Santorini), LOT has launched two (Dubrovnik, Varna) new routes. The operator of Ferenc Liszt International Airport guarantees a safe airport environment for passengers and staff, with all measures.

The coronavirus pandemic had the biggest impact on passenger traffic in April, when the number of passengers did not even reach 10,000. However, the slow growth which began in May continued in June as well. Budapest Airport handled a total of 84 781 arriving and departing passengers, nearly four times as many as in May, but this is still a 94.3% reduction compared to the 1,476,257 passengers registered last June. In that month, Ferenc Liszt International Airport handled 9,980 tons of cargo.