Budapest Airport at Europe’s top in traffic growth, will enter a new golden age, says CEO

The European arm of Airports Council International (ACI Europe) ranked Ferenc Liszt International Airport as the fastest growing European airport in October in terms of passenger traffic. Passenger numbers in the first ten months of the year at Budapest Airport, powered by VINCI Airports, exceeded the total for the previous year, and the company expects similarly dynamic growth in the future. The airport’s new owners and the company’s management team are prepared to develop and expand the airport, in order to adapt the infrastructure to the expected passenger numbers and provide high-quality services.

Passenger traffic at Ferenc Liszt International Airport was 19.8% higher in October 2024 than in the same month of the previous year, making it the fastest growing airport in Europe, according to ACI Europe. Of the 20 airports surveyed, only seven recorded double-digit growth in October. With this growth, Budapest airport overtook major European airports, bud.hu wrote.

Budapest Airport has set individual records in each of the first ten months of this year, surpassing the passenger traffic figures of the record months in 2019, and by the end of October, total passenger traffic had surpassed the twelve months of 2023. Between January and October this year, the highest numbers of passengers flew from Budapest to London, Istanbul and Milan.