Wizz Air Announces Record-Breaking Budapest Winter Schedule

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Wizz Air is providing its highest-ever capacity on flights departing from Budapest for the winter schedule. Compared to last year, the budget airline is offering 8% more seats, amounting to 3.2 million, and is flying to 59 destinations, the airline announced.

The Hungarian-based airline revealed that it will operate over 6,800 flights during the period ending on the last Sunday of March.

Wizz Air has recently announced nine new flights departing from Budapest:

Wroclaw, Gdansk, Bilbao, Tallinn, Vilnius, Turin, and Venice will be available during the winter season, and from March, flights to Skopje will be offered again, while Billund will also be added to Wizz Air’s Budapest offerings.

Gdansk, Poland. Photo: Pixabay

Wizz Air has been operating from the Hungarian capital since the summer of 2004, and the Hungarian market, including Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport, has been an important pillar of the airline’s growth strategy for the past 21 years, reads the announcement.

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As in the past, the airline will continue to be a priority for the company to make flying accessible to more and more passengers, they wrote, indicating that

next summer’s schedule will also offer more capacity than last year to meet the travel needs of Hungarians.

Skopje, North Macedonia. Photo: Pexels

According to the announcement, the company’s revenue grew by almost 4 percent to EUR 5.3 billion in the financial year ending in March this year. Net profit fell to EUR 213.9 million from EUR 365.9 million in the previous year. Wizz Air carried 62.8 million passengers in 2024.

Budapest Airport Unveils Winter Schedule with New Flights and Record Capacity