Hungary’s state-owned cargo plane to start flying to an exotic Asian destination – PHOTOS

The Hungarian state’s cargo plane is set to enter into commercial service between Budapest and Doha following “intensive negotiations” with Qatar Airways, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Saturday.

The Airbus A330-200F plane, acquired after the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic to help ship health-care supplies, recently began commercial operation between Budapest and Chengdu in China, Szijjártó noted in a post on Facebook.

The addition of the new route means that

“the cargo plane owned by the state of Hungary, operated by a Hungarian carrier, maintained by a Hungarian company and supported by Hungarian ground service will now be in commercial service in the Middle East alongside its flights to Asia,”

he said.

Szijjártó noted that just over two years ago it became clear to the world that “those who buy time can save lives”.