Budapest Airport registers 1 million passengers in a month

Budapest Airport today welcomed its one millionth passenger in a single month, for the first time in its history. Tamás Hadik and his wife, disembarking from the Qatar Airways flight from Doha, were in for a special surprise as the passenger count reached one million in July. This is the first time ever that traffic at Budapest Airport reached seven-digit figures within a month.

Here’s something unprecedented in the history of Budapest Airport: in July this year, the number of passengers at the Hungarian capital airport exceeded the magical one million threshold in a month for the first time. Stepping off the aircraft, Tamás Hadik and Orsolya Káli, a Hungarian couple was welcomed by the representatives of Budapest Airport and Qatar Airways, as they became the one millionth passengers of the airport this July. The lucky passengers were greeted by Jost Lammers, the CEO of Budapest Airport and Grisha Jenkov, regional manager for Qatar Airways, who surprised the couple with a gift pack worth a total of one million forints, during an improvised ceremony held in the middle of the terminal. The lucky family received a free booking from Qatar Airways to any destination in its route network, whilst the CEO of the airport operator handed over an exclusive airport service package, a voucher and gift items.

Budapest Airport has never had one million passengers in a single month in its history before. The airport produced nearly 12% growth during the first half of 2015, which means almost half a million more aerial passengers for Budapest and Hungarian tourism than in the previous year. Even according to cautious forecasts, another record year is expected. The management of Budapest Airport, working hand in hand with airline decision-makers, has made huge efforts over the past few years to launch new flights and to link more and more cities with the Hungarian capital.

“Reaching yet another mystical threshold is a huge achievement for us. Last year we celebrated our nine millionth passenger in a year, and now, in July, we have handled more than a million passengers in the space of a single month. We are doing everything we can to keep Budapest Airport as the most dynamically growing travel destination in the CEE region, and to ensure that business and leisure travelers, foreign investors and business partners should look upon Budapest and Hungary as an attractive location,” commented Jost Lammers, the CEO of Budapest Airport.