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American Airlines launches Chicago-Budapest flight
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In addition to the successfully operated Philadelphia flight, American Airlines will introduce a direct flight to Budapest from Chicago O’Hare International Airport from May 2020. A modern Boeing 787 Dreamliner will be flying the route four times a week.
American Airlines announced today that next year it is to launch a seasonal flight from Chicago to Budapest. From May 2020, the flights will be in the schedule every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The flight schedule is convenient for Hungarian passengers, with departure from Budapest at 13:10 (in the afternoon) and arrival in Budapest at 11:10 (in the morning) from ORD.
Traffic between the United States and Hungary was continuously increasing over the past few years, and in 2018 already 700 thousand passengers flew between Budapest and the USA.
One of the drivers behind this was the re-establishing of direct aerial links, including the Philadelphia-Budapest flight of American Airlines which took off for the first time in the spring of 2018. It should be highlighted that 65% of the passengers are of American origin, which clearly shows that Budapest continues to be a tourist magnet within Central-Eastern Europe.
