Budapest Airport prepares for a restart – important developments

In preparation for the expected traffic increase, Budapest Airport has begun recruiting manpower to be able to provide for the safe operation of the airport with an appropriate number of colleagues, as moderate traffic returns. 114 employees have arrived in the open positions recently; 75 of them are returning colleagues whom we had to let go last year during the headcount reduction brought about by the pandemic.

Staff are primarily being hired for roles that are indispensable for the safe handling of passenger traffic and the operation of the airport; mostly security screeners and the terminal operation and information teams. In addition, there will be more employees working in IT, and since Budapest Airport will maintain epidemiological measures intensively going forward,

the sanitization team from Emergency Response has also been expanded.

Recruitment is still under way; more than seventy more colleagues will join the BUD group soon. Based on our current traffic forecast, we expect that in the short term, approximately 170 staff will be hired in total, following the headcount reduction last year.

Budapest Airport facilitating the inoculation of employees with absence

Protecting the health of employees is a key priority for Budapest Airport. To this end, the company provides all support for staff to receive the coronavirus injection, even on days when they are working.

The airport operator has enabled employees working in home office to have sufficient time off on the date of vaccination for their tasks relating to the inoculation and, if necessary, for resting following vaccination. For shift-based staff or those that cannot work from home,