Air cargo volumes have been growing dynamically at Budapest Airport since the beginning of the year, as airlines keep offering new cargo capacities. Following years of stagnation, the economic upturn has also lifted the cargo business.
One of the factors contributing to the growth is that numerous new airlines
are on hand for cargo transportation. For example, demand for the cargo aircraft of Silk Way West has increased so significantly since March that the Azeri airline has been using the latest Boeing 747-8F aircraft instead of Boeing 767-300s on the Budapest-Baku route.
The daily Emirates flight is able to carry up to 12 tonnes of belly cargo. Turkish Cargo increased the frequency of its flights to Budapest from two to three a week, usually flown with Airbus A 310 or A 330-200 aircraft. The Air China service commuting between Beijing and Budapest four times a week as of May 1 is another significant boost for cargo, as it is able to transport up to 10 tonnes per flight.
“We are working hard to make sure that more and more cargo airlines choose Budapest, as the large Western European airports are overcrowded and it is increasingly difficult to find free capacities there,” said René Droese, property director of Budapest Airport.
“At Budapest Airport all the conditions are in place to develop the leading air cargo hub in the Central and Eastern European region, as more and more cargo aircraft from the Far East are landing here and transporting Hungarian products of world-class quality from the electronics, pharmaceutical, mechanical engineering and other industries on the return leg.”
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