Liszt Ferenc Airport handled 946,542 passengers in July, up 8.5% year-on-year, the airport operator has announced. In January-July passengers increased 7.1% over the 2013 first half. The most popular destinations remained London (with Luton, Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airports all available from BUD) then Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Brussels. Inbound, 71,000 passengers arrived from Germany in July, 66,000 from Britain and 33,000 from Italy.
“We have every reason to be optimistic in our traffic forecast for this year in the light of these figures. It seems that we are in for another record-breaking year,” said Jost Lammers, CEO of Budapest Airport. He added: “There are several reasons behind the growth. The efforts of our airline development team in recent years are paying off by having more new destinations and new airlines at Budapest Airport than before. Also, Budapest and Hungary are attractive tourist destinations with all the summer festivals and the Formula 1 Grand Prix taking place in July.”
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