Budapest Airport's summer schedule includes 13.8m seats, 200 routes

Budapest Airport, part of the VINCI Airports network, is set to achieve unprecedented growth in its summer 2025 schedule, offering the largest-ever seat and flight schedule in its history. With robust expansion, the Hungarian gateway will connect passengers to more destinations than ever before, reinforcing its status as a key European airport.

 

 The airport’s record-breaking summer schedule will see Budapest offer 13.8 million seats, a 9.8% increase vs summer 2024, connecting 136 cities with over 71,000 flights.

 

Network growth and new routes

For  summer 2025, Budapest Airport will introduce 11 new routes, welcoming three new airlines:

 

• SAS Scandinavian Airlines: four times weekly flights to Copenhagen (new airline)

• Jazeera Airways: twice-weekly flights to Kuwait City, Kuwait (new airline)

• SCAT: twice-weekly flights to Shymkent, Kazakhstan (new airline)

• Wizz Air: twice-weekly flights to Girona, Spain, Venice, Wroclaw, and Bilbao, plus three times weekly flights to Gdansk and Vilnius.

• Ryanair: twice-weekly flights to Katowice and Castellon, Spain

 

Focusing on a diversified network

Looking at a regional-level, BUD will have the most scheduled seats with the Western European region, growing by 960,000 seats vs summer 2024 to over 11 million seats. In addition, capacity to/from the Middle-East will exceed 1 million seats, mainly thanks to enhanced capacity between Israel and Hungary

 

Existing airlines are also ramping up their operations from Hungary’s capital city. Lufthansa is adding over 70,000 seats, introducing a fifth daily flight to Frankfurt and increasing to five daily flights to Munich on four out of seven days. Eurowings will operate double daily flights in the summer peak to Stuttgart, adding in total over 16,000 extra seats. Aer Lingus and Aegean Airlines will each increase their summer frequencies to five weekly flights each, enhancing onward connectivity to the US and Greek islands, respectively. KLM is boosting capacity with a fifth daily flight on each day to Amsterdam, providing 45,000 extra seats compared to summer 2024. Additionally, capacity to Israel will increase by 220,000 seats, reaching a total of 590,000. As a result, in summer 2025 BUD will have the most seats to/from Israel among airports in the CEE region.

 

Meanwhile, traffic between Hungary and China is set to grow further, with a total of 550,000 seats available in 2025, representing an additional 100,000 seats compared to 2024. As Budapest now ranks among the Top 10 Continental European destinations, the continuous rise in demand for air travel between the two nations reflects strong economic ties and increased tourism interest.

 

As easyJet operates Paris and Lyon flights in the summer period, next to flight from Geneva, Basel and London-Gatwick, the total seat capacity reaches over 310,000 seats, a 15% increase from summer 2024. Already looking ahead to winter 25/26, easyJet has announced year-round, twice-weekly flights to Bordeaux and Nantes as the airline continues to expand its route network from Budapest. With these two new routes, easyJet will increase its number of routes from Budapest from three in 2023 to seven in 2025.

 

In addition, Jet2.com will operate twice weekly seasonal routes to Newcastle and East-Midlands. As a result of the expansion, by end of 2025 Jet2.com will operate six routes.

 

“This record-breaking schedule demonstrates our commitment to strengthening Budapest Airport’s connectivity, diversify our airline portfolio and enhancing travel options for our passengers,” said Máté Ritter, Head of Airline Development, Budapest Airport. “With a strong mix of new routes, increased frequencies, and strategic market developments, the summer marks another step forward in commitment to diversify our network.”

 

Budapest Airport has been awarded the title of Best Airport in Europe in the 15-25 million passenger category for the second consecutive year. This prestigious recognition, presented by ACI World - Airports Council International, is one of the most esteemed awards in the airport industry, determined by direct feedback from passengers.-TradeArabia News Service