Featured Airport: Budapest

CATCHMENT AREA:

Positioned on the M0 motorway in the heart of Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest Airport is well connected to neighbouring countries, including Austria (366 km), Croatia (329 km), Romania (443 km), Serbia (151 km), Slovakia (677 km), Slovenia (102 km) and Ukraine (103 km).

Its wider catchment area consists of:

• 3 million people within a one-hour drive
• 4.3 million people within a 90 minute drive
• 6 million people within a two hour drive
• 13 million people within a three hour drive
• 16 million people within a four hour drive

TOURISM:

Economically, culturally and socially, Budapest's tourism industry plays a key role in its development - accounting for more than 490,000 jobs in Budapest and around 8% of the country's total GDP, according to the airport's official statistics.

Hungary is also a key destination for meeting and conference travel.

Data published by the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) ranked Budapest among the world's most popular cities for conferences in 2009.

NETWORK:

At Budapest airport, 31 airlines serve 91 scheduled international routes.

Key carriers include:

• Hainan Airlines
• British Airways
• Delta Airlines
• Finnair
• Germanwings
• Alitalia
• Norwegian
• Aer Lingus
• Ryanair
• Lufthansa
• LOT
• Swiss
• Eygptair
• CSA
• Brussels Airlines
• Turkish Airlines
• Easyjet

UNSERVED ROUTES/KEY MARKET OPPORTUNITIES:

Unserved routes include: Bilbao, Birmingham, Bremen, Dubai, Lübeck, Luxemburg, Lyon, Marseille, Memmingen, Nice, Porto; Riga, Tallinn, Toulouse and Vilnius.

KEY CONTACT:

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