Air Serbia kicked off its wide-ranging network expansion on Monday 13 March with the introduction of flights between Belgrade and Budapest. The 300-kilometre route will initially operate 10-weekly, gradually increasing to 17-weekly by mid-April, with the ATR 72 aircraft. The carrier faces no competition between the two airports. What they said Bosko Rupic, General Manager […]
March 14, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Korean Air recently added its first new European route since the start of the pandemic when it began 2-weekly service between Seoul ICN and Budapest in Hungary on 3 October. The 8,160-kilometre route is already served 2-weekly by LOT Polish Airlines. Analysis of the SkyTeam carrier’s monthly capacity since January 2019 to Europe and North […]
November 21, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis
Prior to the pandemic, Central Europe’s four busiest airports were Warsaw WAW (18.9 million passengers in 2019), Prague (17.8 million), Budapest (16.2 million) and Bucharest (14.7 million). According to ACI Europe figures they ranked 36th, 39th, 41st and 46th among all European airports. Three of them had grown by around 6% versus 2018, while Budapest […]
October 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air has arguably been the most proactive airline anywhere in the world when it came to network development since the start of the pandemic. According to Cirium schedule data for July 2022, it is currently offering 33% more monthly seats than it did in pre-pandemic July 2019. However, due to the evolution of its […]
July 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air launched a new service from its home base in Budapest to Chisinau in Moldova on Tuesday 31 May. The 2-weekly service (Saturday is the other day of operation) faces no competition. In fact, the last time the 735-kilometre route was flown, was March 2012 when Moldavian Airlines served the route daily using Saab […]
June 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
On 16 July, Wizz Air added Kos in Greece to its route network when it began 2-weekly service (Mondays and Fridays) from its Budapest base. The 1,350-kilometre route faces no direct competition. The inaugural service (flight number W6 2245 operated by Airbus A320 registration HA-LWK) departed the Hungarian capital at 07:47 local time and arrived […]
July 20, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Back in the summer of 2019, Ryanair and Wizz Air only competed head-to-head on 41 routes. Those 41 routes involved 35 different airports, with Budapest leading the way as the airport with the most competition. The Hungarian capital saw the two ULCCs competing directly on 12 airport-pairs. Other airports where the two carriers went up […]
July 19, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story