Airport comments for Budapest (capital city), Hungary

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Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport

Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport is the international airport serving the Hungarian capital city of Budapest. It is by far the largest of the country's four commercial airports, ahead of Debrecen and Hévíz–Balaton. The airport is located 16 kilometres southeast of the center of Budapest and was renamed in 2011 in honour of the most famous Hungarian composer Franz Liszt on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth.

It offers international connections primarily within Europe, but also to Africa, to the Middle East, to North America and to the Far East. In 2019, the airport handled 16.2 million passengers. The airport is the headquarters and primary hub for Wizz Air and base for Ryanair. In 2012 it 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 had been the hub for Malév until the airline's bankruptcy on 3 February 2012.

In 2015 North-American and Middle-Eastern carriers announced direct flights to Budapest. In 2018 LOT Polish Airlines made Budapest their first hub outside Poland, launching with year-round flights to New York-JFK and Chicago-ORD. In 2018, American Airlines resumed flights to Budapest. American Airlines this time flew from Philadelphia, after flights from New York-JFK were suspended in 2011. PHL-BUD operated for the two summers of 2018 and 2019, May–October, and was planned to continue the following summers as well. Chicago-ORD flights were planned to start in 2020, but were axed in April 2020, just a month before the inaugural flight. LOT Polish Airlines axed their Chicago-ORD flight in August 2019, just days after American Airlines announced plans to operate the same route starting May 2020. Nowadays, the Budapest hub of Wizz Air is the largest of all with more than 60 destinations.

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Closed?

This is a glider field, apparently. One can well imagine it is now in a kind of hibernation.

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This airport is closed!

I have been there with car. The runway is unmown and losts of dog walkers on it!

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Fees

Hi guys, beware, this is very expensive airport- for Cirrus SR22 - few hours standing, i pay together more than 600eur. 200eur for landing and parking and 400eur for handling( handled by Malev). And they dont make free cofee for you, just for pax :D

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GOOD AIRPORT

But you need to watch out about the taxies to downtown

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Delete request of MA

Malev is not exist since 2012. Pls. remove it!

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re: LHBP CORRECT SPELLING

Fixed.

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LHBP CORRECT SPELLING

Please correct the name as follows: Budapest LISZT Ferenc... and not LISTZ Ferenc Airport

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Terminal-1 has closed

The Terminal-1 temporary closed at the end of May 2012.

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Hungarian airport:

1. Type mistake: "Budapest Listz Ferenc Internationall Airport"

Real name is: "Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport".

Please modify it.

2. MALEV Hungarian Airlines:

The company went bankrupt and liquidated.

Please remove it.

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Airport name has changed!

New name is Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport

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Not a glider airport

Hi there,

LHBS is a general aviation airport. It has gliders, GA aircraft (including touring motor gliders and ultralights) and helicopters.

Cheers,

Vik