Budapest Airport restores direct link to Birmingham

Budapest Airport is enormously pleased to announce the restoration of a direct link to Birmingham Airport with its largest carrier, Wizz Air. Supporting the expansion of the airline’s home-base, and continuing Budapest’s ever-increasing route network, the carrier has confirmed the commencement of its twice-weekly service from 15 September.

The Hungarian gateway recorded a significant 32% jump in UK visitors during the traditional low season of Q1 2015. Expecting to serve considerably more than 330,000 British visitors this year, the UK is firmly established as the second largest country served from Budapest Airport. With the addition of the Birmingham link, the Central Eastern European airport will now offer more than 100 weekly services to the eight of the UK’s airports.

Commenting on the announcement at this week’s 136th IATA Slot Conference in Vancouver, Balázs Bogáts, Head of Airline Development at Budapest Airport said: “Since Ryanair ended its service in 2012, we’ve been working hard to restore our direct link with Birmingham Airport. We served almost 10,000 indirect passengers from Birmingham last year, and with an expected overall potential market for the direct link forecast to be some 31,000 passengers, we are extremely expectant that it won’t be long before we will be announcing a frequency increase on the route.”