Another flight from Budapest cancelled for good

Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, was very pleased to announce the new pair of flights connecting Budapest with a Central Asian capital. However, it seems that realities did not meet the expectations, and the airline cancelled the flight’s operation within only two weeks. Here is the reason why.

According to Menedzsment Fórum, a Hungarian business news outlet, the Budapest-Tashkent direct route only had three return flights. Based on the original promises of the Hungarian foreign minister, it should have increased the two-per-week frequency to three per week from next January. Instead, there will be none next week.

The first take-off was two weeks ago, while the last one appeared in Flightradar’s database with a 12.30 am departure yesterday. However, on the official site of Budapest Airport, the flight was unavailable. Furthermore, the call centre of the air gate confirmed to mfor.hu that they did not only cancel yesterday’s flights but all the scheduled operations between Budapest and Tashkent operated by Qanot Sharq. Thus, the direct connection between the Hungarian and Uzbek has been ceased.

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Uzbekistan-Budapest flight connection is here to remain

The 20 August, 27 August and 3 September flights were punctual. Airbus A321 planes delivered the passengers to their destination without any issues. They departed only with a 15 minutes delay, and the flight time was 5 hours and 15 minutes.

Szijjártó announced the new flight the day before Hungary’s national day, on 19 August. Here is his post:

Fortunately, the air connection between Uzbekistan and Hungary is here to remain. It is understood that Wizz Air, Hungary’s low-cost airliner, will operate flights between Budapest and Samarkand from December. Hopefully, they will have more success than their Uzbek counterpart. Budflyer, a Hungarian air travel news Facebook page, suggested the reason behind Qanot Sharq’s failure was down to the unreasonably high prices, which did not match the service they offered.