HungaroControl: Traffic increases by 6 percent during the holidays

Christmas is also a priority period for air traffic control, which is why HungaroControl Zrt., which is indirectly under the control of the Ministry of National Economy, is preparing for the holidays with reinforced capacities: 103 controllers will be on duty in the weeks before Christmas.

During last year’s holiday period, the company’s specialists handled 32,300 aircraft, and this year they expect 1,800 more flights.

In addition to transit traffic, the traffic at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport has also been steadily increasing in the years after the pandemic, including in the two weeks before Christmas: at this time last year, 4,200 landings and takeoffs were registered, which is 200 aircraft more than the result of 2022, they said.