Budapest Airport lost 99.3 percent of its passenger traffic

Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport has lost 99.3 percent of its passenger traffic due to the almost completely stopped air traffic due to the coronavirus epidemic, most of the aircraft served are cargo.

In a statement sent to MTI on Friday, the operator of Ferihegy Airport wrote that previously the number of take-offs and landings averaged 320 per day, which is now only 35, and only a few of these are passenger flights. Last April, an average of 44,000 passengers were handled every day, a number now 275. During the Easter period, 1,311 boarding and disembarking aircraft carried 190,000 passengers last year, and this year 1283 passengers turned up at the airport during the holidays. “This spring will go down in the history of aviation as a black spring,” the statement reads. (MTI)