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...

By Press Association Hungary’s government has ordered an investigation of domestic low-cost carrier Wizz Air over what it calls possible breaches of consumer protection laws. It is the second such investigation it has launched against an airline since June. The probe, ordered by Hungaryâ€...

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...

Over the past week, the spread of the Covid-19 virus and associated Government travel restrictions, many of which have been imposed without notice, have had a significant and negative impact on the schedules of all Ryanair Group Airlines. Over the past 7 days, Italy, Malta, Hungary, Czech Repub...

Budapest Airport has announced the commencement of a new link to Kharkiv, Ukraine, with airline partner, Ryanair. One month after announcing the Hungarian gateway’s first link to the second-largest city in the Eastern European country, the low-cost carrier’s (LCC) twice-weekly operation wil...

Looking ahead to 2020, Budapest Airport has announced enhancements to its route network with home-based airline partner, Wizz Air. Set to commence next summer, the Hungarian low-cost carrier (LCC) will be operating a daily service to Brussels, and new twice-weekly links to Lviv and Kharkiv in Uk...

Air Serbia has increased the flight frequency for flights between Belgrade and Tivat this month to cater for strong demand. The national carrier of the Republic of Serbia will serve the Montenegrin seaside from the Serbian capital up to 26 times weekly. Air Serbia will provide 2,000 additiona...

Central and Eastern low-cost carrier Wizz Air will begin operations at Edinburgh Airport in November, with the launch of four routes to popular European city break destinations. From the beginning of November Wizz Air will connect Scotland’s capital three times a week with the Polish cities of...

Budapest Airport has wasted no time in appointing a new CEO after the departure of Joost Lammers was announced last week as it has announced that Rolf Schnitzler will take the helm with immediate effect. Schnitzler has more than 14 years of experience in corporate management at AviAlliance, a le...

LOT Polish Airlines has added a new year-round route between Budapest Airport and Seoul's Incheon International Airport. The route will be operated three times per week from 22 September utilising a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. Market demand is estimated to be at over 100,000 passengers per annum...

Budapest Airport’s summer schedule is launched this weekend and the Hungarian gateway continues its route network expansion into the winter timetable with Ryanair. Confirming the addition of another six new services – Catania, Gothenburg, Lappeenranta, Luxembourg, Poznan and Tel Aviv – the ...

Budapest Airport has further grown its route network development with the confirmation that Shanghai Airlines - in partnership with China Eastern Airlines - will launch a three times weekly service between the Hungarian gateway and China’s largest city, Shanghai. Set to launch on 7 June, the 9,...