The Budapest Airport has welcomed over one million passengers each month in 2024, witnessed its busiest January and February ever, and is expecting a similar trend in March.
Registering an 18% year-on-year growth in passenger traffic, the airport announced significant advancements in its route development initiatives, marking a notable milestone in the road to full recovery in 2024 and expansion of its route network. The Hungarian gateway continues efforts to culminate an extensive network which now encompasses 122 cities and 130 airports, served by 39 airline partners. Summer brings an array of new services to further enrich Budapest’s diverse portfolio of destinations, despite considerable headwinds in the industry due to aircraft delivery delays, including: Ryanair: Milan (MXP), Tirana, Faro, Frankfurt (Hahn), Trieste, Skiathos Beyond the six new routes, Ryanair announced increase frequencies on 26 existing routes, such as Alghero, Malaga, Sofia, Berlin, Pisa, and Birmingham. Wizz Air: Brasov, Brussels, Bucharest, Chisinau, Stuttgart, Valencia, Yerevan Beyond the seven new routes, Wizz Air announced increase frequencies on 10 existing routes, such as Milan, Rome, Basel, Athens, Madrid, Malta, and Nice. Additionally, Budapest has announced frequency increases across various further routes:- easyJet: Basel, increased to 13-times weekly
- Geneva, increased to six-times weekly
- KLM: Amsterdam, increased to 34/35-times weekly
- Seoul: Korean Air expanded its operation to four-times weekly to cater the needs of business passengers even better.
- Shanghai: Shanghai Airlines offers now daily flights from three weekly in S23, enabling better connections to China, South-East Asia, Australia and New-Zealand.
- Beijing: Air China increased to three-times weekly