Hungary just got closer to the United States: direct flights launch from nearby airport

After two decades, direct flights between Romania and the United States have resumed. This makes it easier for Hungarians and travellers from Hungary to reach New York.

United States one step closer to Hungary

After twenty years, direct air traffic between Romania and the United States of America has resumed, economedia.ro reports. The HiSky airline plane took off from Bucharest’s Henri Coandă International Airport on Friday morning. After a flight of about 10 hours, it will land at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport in the afternoon.

Passengers are carried by a wide-body Airbus A 330-200. The airline will operate four flights a week between Bucharest and New York. For the transatlantic flight, the operator will provide a connection from Cluj Napoca, “Transylvania’s capital”, with a waiting time of only 1 hour and 10 minutes, according to maszol.ro.

As the portal writes, there has been no direct flight between Romania and the United States for more than 20 years, following the suspension of the Bucharest-New York route by the state-owned airline Tarom in November 2003.

HiSky is a low-cost airline registered in the Republic of Moldova. The airline has been present on the Romanian market since 2021. HiSky has two air bases: one in Cluj Napoca and one in Chișinău.

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