Passenger records set in three months this year

Passenger traffic at Budapest Airport has been showing strong growth all this year, a result of numerous new flights launched recently, airlines using larger aircraft on existing routes to increase capacity and increasing daily/weekly frequencies. Records were broken in March, May and June, and if this trend continues the record figure for passengers in a year, 8.9 million in 2011, could be surpassed.
In the latest record-breaking month, 863,994 travellers flew to or from the Hungarian capital in June. The 8.4% growth rate compared to June 2013 surpassed all previous figures for the month, including the previous best in June 2011 when 827,457 passengers were registered.
June saw the arrival of the latest, eighth aircraft to be stationed in Budapest by Wizz Air, along with its new flights (Alicante) and frequency increases. Since spring, Israeli carrier UP has increased the frequency of its services between Tel Aviv and Budapest, Transavia France has launched a flight to Paris Orly and British carrier Jet2.com has revived its Leeds service. As of June, Vueling has been operating to Budapest from Barcelona and the performance of the charter airlines (Travel Service, Freebird, Onur Air, etc.) has also started to improve.
Budapest Airport CEO Jost Lammers said: “We are delighted to see that traffic at Liszt Ferenc Airport has surpassed even our most optimistic forecast, and June has turned out to be a record-breaking month again. Our efforts together with our airline partners are now paying off and aviation traffic growth is back on track.
“The summer traffic increase not only reflects strengthening confidence in economic growth and larger family incomes in Hungary, but also means the creation of new jobs both in the Hungarian aviation industry and in tourism.”