American Airlines will resume its nonstop route between Budapest and Philadelphia from May 2026. The service, suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic, was very popular with both American and Hungarian passengers. The service quality of the daily Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners satisfies the needs of b...

Menzies Aviation has finalised its strategic partnership with AS Budapest to deliver ground and cargo services at Budapest Airport, creating new opportunities to support more customers and partners. Under the agreement, AS Budapest will transfer its ground handling and cargo operations to Menzies...

TUI Airways will launch a new direct flight from Birmingham Airport to Budapest International Airport, Hungary. The inaugural flight will take off on 4 May 2026 offering travellers in the Midlands convenient access to Hungary’s capital city. Sitting on the Danube, Budapest is the first port ...

Budapest airport subsidiary Airport Fuel Supply Ltd has successfully passed the audit criteria for the introduction of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at Ferenc Liszt International Airport. Certification is a prerequisite for the airport operator to provide airlines with the minimum 2% sust...

Budapest Airport has welcomed the return of Vueling Airlines, marking its first service from the Hungarian gateway since the pandemic. The Spanish airline will operate six flights between Budapest and Bilbao, providing a unique connection between the two cities during the holiday season. This se...

A Wizz Air advert that claimed the airline was "one of the greenest choices in air travel" has been banned for misleading consumers. The ad, seen on Google on 9 June, stated: "Fly Wizz Air - one of the greenest choices in air travel." The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the adv...

Wizz Air has become the largest ever airline to operate from Budapest after announcing four new winter routes from the airport. From October, the Hungarian low-cost carrier will offer flights to Genoa, Girona and Marrakech - and from December, Memmingen. This route expansion comes after the ad...

Wizz Air has announced a new summer record after carrying 33 million passengers between April and September 2023. The results show significant growth for the European carrier, it said, with passenger numbers increasing by over 24 per cent from the previous summer. With more than 33 million passeng...

The Hungarian government has put forward a new offer to buy Budapest Airport and its owners have decided to enter discussions, shareholders have said. In 2021, the government submitted a non-binding offer to buy the airport for €4b, but the process was later halted amid high inflation and volatil...

The invasion of Ukraine has brought commercial flying there to a standstill, and stopped overflights of neighbouring Moldova. Elsewhere around the borders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, overflights are also much disrupted. Here EUROCONTROL explore the changes in overflights between mid-Februa...

Wizz Air today announced it will support Ukrainian refugees by offering them 100,000 free seats on all continental Europe flights departing from Ukraine’s border countries (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania). Wizz Air is committed to helping the refugees reach their final destinations, whereve...

Wizz Air yesterday celebrated the arrival of its first scheduled Wizz Air Hungary flight to Abu Dhabi International Airport. It is a great milestone in Wizz Air history as the first Budapest-Abu Dhabi flight landed in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, to be followed shortly by the flight f...