Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport

Budapest Ferenc Liszt
International Airport

Budapest Liszt Ferenc
Nemzetközi Repülőtér
IATA: BUDICAO: LHBP
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Budapest Airport Ltd.[1]
Operator Budapest Airport Ltd.[2]
Serves Budapest, Hungary
Location 16 km (9.9 mi) south-east of centre of Budapest
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 151 m / 495 ft
Coordinates 47°26′22″N 019°15′43″E / 47.43944°N 19.26194°E / 47.43944; 19.26194Coordinates: 47°26′22″N 019°15′43″E / 47.43944°N 19.26194°E / 47.43944; 19.26194
Website www.bud.hu/english
Map
BUD

Location within Hungary and Europe

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13L/31R 3,707 12,162 Asphalt concrete
13R/31L 3,010 9,875 Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 10,289,180
Passenger change 14–15 Increase12.5%
Aircraft movements 86,047
Movements change 14–15 Increase6.8%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, ACI Europe[3]
AIP of Hungary[4]

Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport[5] (Hungarian: Budapest Liszt Ferenc Nemzetközi Repülőtér) (IATA: BUD, ICAO: LHBP), formerly known as Budapest Ferihegy International Airport and still commonly called just Ferihegy, is the international airport serving the Hungarian capital city of Budapest, and by far the largest of the country's four commercial airports. The airport is located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) east-southeast of the centre of Budapest and was renamed in honor of the most famous Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (Hungarian Liszt Ferenc) on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth.

It offers international connections primarily within Europe, but also to Africa, the Middle East, the Far East. From June 2015, the transatlantic flights were restored with two carriers flying to Toronto and Montreal. In 2012, the airport handled 8.5 million passengers and experienced a significant drop in aircraft movements and handled cargo, primarily due to the collapse of Malév Hungarian Airlines earlier in the year, hence losing a large portion of connecting passengers. It was the hub for Malév until the airline's bankruptcy on 3 February 2012, when at 6 am Malév ceased its operations after almost 66 years of service.[6] Before its closure, the airline had more than one third of the air traffic at the airport,[7] and about 40% of the revenues at Budapest airport originated from Malév operations.[8] The airport serves as a base for Ryanair and Wizz Air, and served 9,155,961 passengers in 2014, a 7.5% increase over 2013.[9]

Name

Originally called Budapest Ferihegy International Airport (Budapest Ferihegy Nemzetközi Repülőtér), on 25 March 2011 it was officially renamed Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, in honor of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt (Modern Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc.) Popularly, the airport is still called Ferihegy as before.

Ferihegy is the name of the neighbourhood around the airport. The name is derived from that of Ferenc Xavér Mayerffy (1776–1845), the former owner of an estate who established vineyards and contributed to the development of viticulture in Pest-Buda. "Feri" is a diminutive form of Ferenc while "hegy" means hill. In fact the area is almost totally flat but originally there was a 147 m high sandy hillock which was levelled in the 1940s during the constructions works of the airport.

History

Designing and construction (1939–1944)

In 1938 the idea of building a new airport in Budapest was born. The area in the boundary of three settlements (Pestszentlőrinc, Rákoshegy and Vecsés) was assigned as the area of the new airport. The airport was intended as jointly for civil-military-sporting purposes. Civil facilities were to be built up in the north-western and military ones in the south-western section. Just as for each building, a public tender was invited for the designing and construction of the traffic building.

In December 1939, upon announcement of the results of the tender invited in September that year, the designs of Károly Dávid Jr. (1903–1973) were chosen. The designer, who was one of the originators of modern Hungarian architectural art, dreamt of a building which resembled an aircraft from the top-side view. The work commenced in 1942. To approach the airport from the city, a 16-kilometre (10 mi) high-speed road was constructed between 1940 and 1943, which, after improvements, remains in use today.

The military buildings were constructed parallel to the civil construction from 1940 but, due to the war situation, faster. Aviation started at the airport in 1943. In wartime, the civil construction slowed down and then stopped at the beginning of 1944. Towards the end of World War II, many of the airport buildings were damaged. By the end 1944, Budapest and its airport were under Soviet occupation.

Reconstruction (1947–1950)

In 1947 it was decided that the airport would be reconstructed for civil aviation. Under the three-year plan 40 million forints were voted for those works. The opening ceremony was held in May 1950 and the sections finished allowed Magyar-Szovjet Polgári Légiforgalmi Rt. (Hungarian-Soviet Civil Aviation Co. Ltd. – MASZOVLET), established in 1946, to operate here. At that time the airlines operated only a few foreign flights, in particular those to Prague, Bucharest, Warsaw and Sofia.

Magyar Légiforgalmi Vállalat (Hungarian Airlines – Malév) was established on 25 November 1954. The first regular flight taking off from the airport to the West was the Malév's flight into Vienna in summer 1956. The first Western airline which launched a flight to Budapest was KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in 1957. The traffic building was finished in this period and the lengthening works of the 2,500-metre (8,202 ft) runway were started. At the end of 1958 the runway was lengthened to 3,010 metres (9,875 ft) and taxiway D was finished.

Continued growth (1960–1980)

Between its opening and 1960, the number of landings at the Airport increased from 4,786 to 17,133, with passenger traffic increasing from 49,955 to 359,338 by 1960.

In 1965, a study was made on the development of the airport, which was implemented with more than a 10-year delay from the end of the 1970s. Aviation, airport, and flight control all called for more capacity and infrastructure. The Aviation and Airport Directorate (LRI) was established on 1 January 1973 and performed as an airline company, a trade company, and an authority, as well as investment, operator, and air navigation tasks.

In 1974, passenger traffic reached one million. In 1977, a new control tower was built, as well as a second runway parallel to the old one and a technical base for maintaining MALÉV aircraft. Use of the new 3,707-metre (12,162 ft) runway was started in September 1983.

New infrastructure (1980–2000)

In 1980, the number of landing aircraft and passengers served reached 32,642 and 1,780,000, respectively. The growing number of passengers called for more capacity. A new terminal was decided upon. The foundation-stone of the new passenger traffic building to be built was laid down on 16 November 1983. Since 1 November 1985, passengers have been received in Terminal 2, a 24,000-square-meter facility funded with Austrian loans under general contracting. It was used first by Malév aircraft and passengers, and then by those of Lufthansa, Air France, and Swissair. The old terminal continued to receive residual airline traffic under a new name, Terminal 1.

In 1990, more than 40,000 take-offs and landings were registered and 2.5 million passengers were served.

There was an IED bus attack against Russian Jewish emigrants on the road leading to Ferihegy in the early 1990s. The perpetrators were members of the German Communist organisation Red Army Faction.[10]

In 1993, Malév launched the airport's first Hungarian overseas flight, to New York. According to the traffic figures forecast for the millennium, the two terminals serving 4 million passengers a year promised to be insufficient. The construction of Terminal 2B was started in 1997. The new building, with more than 30,000 square meters of space, together with a new apron, was opened in 1998, with all foreign airlines moving there. Terminal 2B can receive 3.5 million passengers a year, with its seven gates and five remote stands.

Public to public-private ownership (2000–2012)

In January 2002, in lieu of the liquidated Aviation and Airport Directorate, two new organisations were established. HungaroControl became responsible for air navigation and Budapest Airport Zrt. for operation of the airport. Between 1998 and 2005, passenger figures at Budapest Airport doubled – from 3.9 million to 7.9 million and major investments were called for.

This time, the Hungarian State, sole owner of the airport, opted for a partial privatisation with the integration of a private strategic partner with international experience. In June 2005, the State's privatisation agency initiated a tender for a concession. Seventy five percent minus one vote of Budapest Airport Zrt.'s shares were to be given to new private owners. The tender was finalised by the end of the year and the British company BAA, owner and operator of the major British airports, took over the management of the airport company.

On 8 December 2005, a 75% stake in Ferihegy Airport was bought by BAA plc for 464.5 billion HUF (approx. 2.1 billion USD), including the right of operation for 75 years.[1] On 20 October 2006, BAA announced intentions to sell its stake in Budapest Airport to a consortium led by the German airports group, HOCHTIEF AirPort GmbH, subject to the consent of the Hungarian State.

On 18 April 2007, the renovation of Terminal 1 at Ferihegy was awarded Europe's most prestigious heritage preservation prize, the Europa Nostra award. The designers, contractors, builders and investors (the latter being BA) received the joint award of the European Commission and of the pan-European heritage preservation organisation Europa Nostra for the renovation of the protected monument spaces, the central hall, the gallery and the furniture at T1.

One and half years later, in June 2007, there was a change in the management when the new owner of BAA decided to dispose of its shares and sell them to the German company HOCHTIEF AirPort and three financial partners.

On 6 June 2007, BAA and a consortium led by HOCHTIEF AirPort (HTA) formally closed and completed the transaction of the sale of BAA's shares in Budapest Airport (BA) to the HOCHTIEF AirPort Consortium. The ownership of the HOCHTIEF AirPort Consortium was as follows: HOCHTIEF AirPort (49.666%) and three financial investors: Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Montreal (23.167%), GIC Special Investments, Singapore (23.167%) and KfW IPEX-Bank, Frankfurt (4.0%).[11]

On 26 July 2010, after completing a security oversight investigation in May,[12] the EU authorities revoked Budapest Airport's official "Schengen Clear" certification, due to serious lapses observed in personal security check procedures and unauthorised passing of banned objects. This meant passenger connecting via another airport in the Schengen Zone would have to be rescreened through security, just as foreign non-Schengen connecting passengers, causing delays and inconvieniance. The airport argued that it had not yet had time to fully implement new security measures introduced on 29 April 2010, and inspired by the Delta Air Lines' Amsterdam "underwear bomb scare" incident. The airports layout was also cited as an excuse for the failure. Budapest Airport was the first airport to be checked through a stringent undercover evaluation for compliance with the new regulation. (Hungarian state news agency MTI reports: ) In response additional security measures were immediately implemented at Budapest Airport causing flight delays at both terminals. Unusually long passenger waiting queues were observed at the more busy 2A-B terminal complex's departures area. These problems were solved over time, especially through the opening of the SkyCourt terminal including a central security zone.

On 15 November 2010, Budapest Airport regained the "Schengen Clear"-status, after implementing the necessary security actions and after that the airport underwent the strict re-inspection.[13]

On 16 March 2011, the name of Budapest Ferihegy International Airport was changed to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport.[2]

Sky Court, the new expansion project including shops, restaurants and lounges, also connecting Terminals 2A and 2B was opened on 27 March 2011. In summer that year, the refurbishing of the old terminal parts in T2 began and was completed in 2012.[14]

Collapse of Malév and aftermath (2012–)

In the wake of the collapse of Malév, Ryanair announced that it would expand its flights to Liszt airport. Ryanair began selling the flight tickets to the public, but Budapest airport said that the company had not secured all of the necessary slots (which was later negotiated successfully).[15] By 9 February 2012, only six days after the collapse of the Hungarian national carrier, Liszt Ferenc Airport had recovered over 60% of its point to point traffic. Airlines that announced that new services would begin included Wizz Air, Aegean Airlines, Air Berlin, Lufthansa, and Ryanair.

However the airport had lost Malév's transfer passengers, which, prior to the airline's collapse, had amounted to 1.5 million passengers per year. A second effect of the Malév collapse was that the areas used to service the Malév fleet would no longer generate revenue even once point to point traffic had been restored. These factors created significant financial shortfalls in the airport's revenues.[16]

In February 2012 Hainan Airlines announced that they would cease services to Beijing from Budapest.[17] Prior to the collapse of Malév, Hainan had a partnership with Malév,[18] which included a codeshare.[19]

In May 2013 Hochtief Group announced the sale of its Airports unit HOCHTIEF AirPort which held a stake in the Budapest Airport and other airports to the Canadian Pension fund Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments).[20] Following the sale HOCHTIEF AirPort was renamed to AviAlliance.[21]

As of July 2015, the ownership of the Budapest Airport is as follows: AviAlliance (52.666%) owned by PSP Investments, Canada, Malton Investment (22.167%) owned by GIC Special Investments, Singapore, Caisse de depôt et placemen de Québec, Canada (20.167%) and KfW IPEX-Bank, Germany (5%).[22]

Future developments

The now-closed Terminal 1
Arrivals area of Terminal 1
Terminal 2A
Terminal 2B check-in area
Waiting area Sky Court

An expenditure of 261 million euros was spent in order to expanding and modernising the airports infrastructure until December 2012. Several of these future projects involve about further 300 million euros, and depends on regulatory decisions as well as third-party investors.[23] Among the finished and the further planned projects are:

Finished projects
Planned projects[26]

Terminals

Ferihegy airport has three main terminals: 1, 2A and 2B, and a smaller one for general aviation flights. A new air cargo base is to be built. Transfer between terminals 2A and 2B can be made on foot. The older Terminal 1, however, is located further away (i.e. closer to the city of Budapest) and must be reached by bus. From the city center, Terminal 1 can be reached by MÁV train directly and Terminal 2 is served by BKK bus.

On 30 March 2008, all Hungarian airports joined the Schengen Agreement and all Schengen flights moved to Terminal 2A, while non-Schengen flights moved to 2B. Terminal 1's low cost carriers were also separated by a glass wall into Schengen and non-Schengen traffic.

Terminal 1 (closed)

From 1 September 2005, re-opened Terminal 1 served low-cost carriers. Terminal 1 is divided into Schengen and Non-Schengen boarding gates.[27]

The terminal was totally renovated in full compliance with the requirements of historical monument protection, since the building is one of the finest examples of architectural modernism, built from 1939 (and interrupted by the war, then finished in 1950). The Terminal 1 is unusual in that it resembles the shape of an aircraft, when viewed from above, and is unique in style across Europe. For these reasons, the reconstruction received the Medal of the Europa Nostra Award.[28][29]

Terminal 1 is unusual among low-cost airline destinations, being located within the premises of Budapest and offering faster public transport time to the city center, compared to the Terminal 2 about 7 kilometers farther. (Terminal 1 offers an about 20 minutes direct train journey to Budapest city centre, while Terminal 2 requires an 8-minute bus ride to the train station).[30]

Building 18/A of the Terminal 1 compound houses the head office of the Transportation Safety Bureau of Hungary (TSB).[31] The Directorate for Air Transport of the National Transport Authority (NKH), which governs commercial aviation in Hungary, has its head office inside Building 13 at the Terminal 1 compound.[32] The head office of the predecessor agency of the TSB, the Civil Aviation Safety Bureau, was in Building 13.[33] In addition Civil Aviation Authority, the predecessor of the NKH, also had its head office in Building 13.[34] The terminal compound formerly housed the head office of ABC Air Hungary.[35]

On 14 March 2012, Budapest Airport announced that due to the traffic levels being too low in Terminal 1, extra capacity in Terminal 2, and cost saving, Terminal 1 will be closed temporarily.

On 30 May 2012 all airlines were moved to Terminal 2, the low cost airlines using now the check-in desks at hall 2B.

Sky Court between Terminal 2A and 2B

The newest, state-of-the-art building between the 2A and 2B terminals with 5 levels. Passenger safety checks were moved here along with new baggage classifiers and the new Malév and SkyTeam business lounges, as well as the first MasterCard lounge in Europe.[36]

New shops, restaurants and cafés were placed in the new building's transit hall. With the opening of Skycourt the Terminal 2 has become capable of receiving about 11 million passengers a year, instead of the former joint capacity of about 7 million.

Terminal 2A

The Schengen terminal, it was originally the "only" Terminal 2. It was inaugurated on 1 November 1985 for the exclusive use of the homeland carrier Malév Hungarian Airlines, and later renamed in 1998 to Terminal 2A. Its check in hall serves all Skyteam and Star Alliance member airlines currently. Within its boarding area (Gates A1-A19) and arrivals level, it serves all flights to and from the Schengen-zone destinations of any airline.

Terminal 2B

The non-Schengen terminal, it is referred to as a separate object, and opened in December 1998. Its check-in hall serves all flights of the OneWorld-alliance (intra- and extra-Schengen as well), as well as many other non-aligned airlines. But its boarding area (Gates B1-B19) and arrivals level are serving the non-Schengen destinations of any airline.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinationsCheck-in
Aegean Airlines Athens 2A
Aer Lingus Dublin 2B
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo 2B
Air Algerie Algiers 2B
airBaltic Riga 2B
Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel 2B
Air Canada Rouge Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson 2B
Air China Beijing-Capital 2B
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 2A
Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino 2A
Austrian Airlines Vienna 2A
Belavia Belgrade, Minsk 2B
British Airways London-Heathrow 2B
Brussels Airlines Brussels 2A
Bulgaria Air Seasonal: Sofia [37] 2B
Czech Airlines Prague 2A
easyJet Amsterdam (begins 6 February 2017), Berlin-Schönefeld, London-Gatwick, Lyon,[38] Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Venice 2B
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva 2B
EgyptAir
operated by EgyptAir Express
Cairo 2B
Emirates Dubai-International 2B
Eurowings Düsseldorf 2B
Finnair Helsinki 2B
Germanwings Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Stuttgart 2B
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid (resumes 8 April 2017) 2A
Jet2.com East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester 2B
KLM Amsterdam 2A
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw-Chopin 2A
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich 2A
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine
Frankfurt, Munich 2A
Norwegian Air Shuttle Copenhagen, Helsinki, London-Gatwick, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda 2B
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen 2B
Qatar Airways Doha 2B
Ryanair Athens,[39] Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin-Schönefeld, Billund, Bristol, Charleroi, Copenhagen, Dublin,[40] East Midlands (begins 27 March 2017), Gran Canaria, London-Stansted, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Nuremberg, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Treviso
Seasonal: Corfu,[41] Eilat-Ovda, Tampere[42]
2B
Scandinavian Airlines Stockholm-Arlanda 2A
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich 2A
Swiss International Air Lines
operated by Swiss Global Air Lines
Zürich 2A
TAROM Bucharest 2A
Transavia Rotterdam 2A
Transavia France Paris-Orly 2A
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk 2A
Up
operated by El Al
Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion 2B
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona 2A
Wizz Air Alicante, Baku, Barcelona, Bari, Bergen (begins 10 April 2017), Birmingham,[43] Bologna, Bucharest, Catania, Charleroi, Cluj-Napoca, Dortmund, Dubai-Al Maktoum, Eindhoven, Faro (begins 1 April 2017), Fuerteventura,[44] Glasgow, Gothenburg, Hahn, Hannover (begins 10 April 2017), Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Kiev-Zhulyany, Kutaisi, Lamezia Terme (begins 12 April 2017),[45] Lanzarote,[44] Larnaca, Lisbon, Liverpool,[46] London-Luton, Madrid, Málaga, Malmö, Malta, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Vnukovo, Naples, Nice, Porto, Reykjavík-Keflavík, Rome-Fiumicino, Sofia ,[47] Stockholm-Skavsta, Târgu Mureș, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Warsaw-Chopin
Seasonal: Alghero,[48] Burgas, Corfu, Heraklion, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Zakynthos
2B

Notes: ^1 : Air China's flight from Beijing to Budapest stops in Minsk, but the flight from Budapest to Beijing is nonstop. Air China does not have local traffic rights on Minsk – Budapest sector.[49]

Charter

AirlinesDestinationsCheck-in at
Aegean Airlines Corfu, Heraklion, Rhodes, Zakynthos 2B
Air Cairo Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Sharm el-Sheikh 2B
Air VIA Burgas, Varna 2B
Arkia Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion 2B
Asiana Airlines Seoul-Incheon 2B
Bulgarian Air Charter Burgas 2B
Corendon Airlines Antalya 2B
Enter Air Bilbao, Madrid, Valencia 2B
Freebird Airlines Antalya, Bodrum, Izmir 2B
HOP! Strasbourg 2B
Israir Airlines Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion 2B
Japan Airlines Tokyo-Narita 2B
Mistral Air Catania, Palermo 2B
Nesma Airlines Hurghada 2B
Nordavia St. Petersburg 2B
Nouvelair Monastir 2B
Onur Air Antalya 2B
Small Planet Airlines Heraklion, Kos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes 2B
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Tenerife-South 2B
Tailwind Airlines Antalya, Bodrum 2B
Titan Airways London, Prague 2B
Travel Service Hungary Agadir, Antalya, Burgas, Cephalonia, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Marsa Alam, Monastir, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Reykjavík-Keflavík, Rhodes, Sal, Sharm el-Sheikh, Taba, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Tenerife-South, Zakynthos 2B
Tunisair Djerba, Monastir, Tunis 2B

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
ASL Airlines Belgium Amsterdam, Liège, Munich, Nuremberg, Vienna
Cargolux Almaty, Baku, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Taipei-Taoyuan
CityLine Hungary Belgrade
DHL Aviation
operated by EAT Leipzig
Bergamo, Brussels, Bucharest, Cologne/Bonn, Leipzig/Halle
Farnair Hungary Basel/Mulhouse, Cologne/Bonn
FedEx Feeder
operated by ASL Airlines Ireland
Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Vienna
Qatar Airways Cargo Doha, Prague
Silver Air Cluj-Napoca[50]
Solinair Vienna
Swiftair Nuremberg
Turkish Airlines Cargo Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil
UPS Airlines Cologne/Bonn, Prague

Destinations maps

Statistics

Annual passenger numbers

Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport Passenger Totals 2004-2015 (millions)
Updated: 23 September 2016.
Passengers
handled[lower-alpha 1]
Passenger
% Change
2004 6,456,983 n/a
2005 8,031,028 24.38% Increase
2006 8,266,677 2.93% Increase
2007 8,597,137 4.00% Increase
2008 8,443,053 -1.79% Decrease
2009 8,095,367 -4.12% Decrease
2010 8,190,089 1.17% Increase
2011 8,920,653 8.92% Increase
2012 8,504,020 -4.67% Decrease
2013 8,520,880 0.20% Increase
2014 9,155,961 7.45% Increase
2015 10,298,963 12.48% Increase
2016
Source: KSH[51]

Top destinations

Busiest international routes (2015)
Rank Airport Passengers handled
1 London-Luton472,830
2 Paris-Charles de Gaulle423,005
3 Frankfurt421,144
4 London-Stansted368,605
5 Amsterdam329,131
6 Munich323,262
7 Brussels-Charleroi308,233
8 London-Heathrow291,955
9 Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion272,474
10 Rome-Fiumicino239,016
11 Istanbul-Atatürk229,092
12 Barcelona210,114
13 Madrid202,089
14 Helsinki199,655
15 Eindhoven196,724
16 Warsaw-Chopin196,590
17 Dublin195,597
18 Milan-Malpensa194,793
19 Zurich186,079
20 London-Gatwick185,653
21 Brussels-National183,533
City Airport(s) Weekly Departures
(2016)
Airlines
United Kingdom London Gatwick Airport, London Heathrow Airport, London Luton Airport, London Stansted Airport
98
British Airways, easyJet, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair, Wizz Air
France Paris Beauvais-Tillé Airport, Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris Orly Airport
43
Air France, easyJet, Ryanair, Transavia France
Belgium Brussels Brussels Airport, Brussels-South Charleroi Airport
42
Brussels Airlines, Ryanair, Wizz Air
Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt Hahn Airport
38
Lufthansa, Wizz Air
Germany Munich Munich Airport
35
Lufthansa
Poland Warsaw Warsaw Chopin Airport
35
LOT Polish Airlines, Wizz Air
Germany Berlin Berlin Tegel Airport, Berlin Schönefeld Airport
35
Air Berlin, easyJet, Ryanair (from October)
Turkey Istanbul Atatürk International Airport, Sabiha Gökçen Airport
34
Pegasus Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Wizz Air
Netherlands Amsterdam Amsterdam Airport
28
KLM
Italy Rome Rome Ciampino, Fiumicino Airport
27
Alitalia, Ryanair, Vueling, Wizz Air
Germany Ruhr Region Cologne/Bonn Airport, Dortmund Airport, Düsseldorf Airport
24
Eurowings, Germanwings, Wizz Air
Russia Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, Vnukovo Airport
21
Aeroflot, Wizz Air
Czech Republic Prague Prague Václav Havel Airport
21
Czech Airlines
Switzerland Zürich Zürich Airport
21
Swiss
Austria Vienna Vienna Airport
21
Austrian Airlines

Annual traffic

2016
Month Passengers[52] Change (2015-2016) Passengers Cumulatively
January 701,859 Increase 12.1% 701,859
February 683,831 Increase 14% 1,385,690
March 843,703 Increase 13.5% 2,229,393
April 926,790 Increase 10.3% 3,156,183
May 1,016,068 Increase 13.5% 4,172,251
June 1,053,257 Increase 9% 5,225,508

Other facilities

Ground transportation

Car

The airport is accessible by the Üllői road. Taxis are available from the taxi stand, however only one taxi company (Főtaxi) is authorised to use the airport cab stands. Additionally nearly all major rental companies operate at Ferihegy.[57]

Rail

Hungarian State Railways runs suburban and long-distance services between (the now closed) Terminal 1 and Nyugati Railway Station in Budapest city centre through Kőbánya-Kispest. The trip takes approximately 25 minutes. From Terminal 2 passengers need to take bus 200E to Ferihegy vasútállomás (Ferihegy railway station).

Public transport

During daytime, a bus connects with railway and the Metro Line 3 terminus at Kőbánya-Kispest.

During nighttime (23:00 to 04:00) the Nightbus connects with the 950 Nightbus stop at Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út. The 950 bus travels to Rákospalota via the City Center (Deák Ferenc tér) and Nyugati railway station.

Mini buses and shuttles

Several companies operate airport shuttles taking passengers to any destination in the city. Other shuttles and coach services exist to outlying towns in Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Serbia.

See also

Notes

  1. Number of passengers including domestic, international and transit

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