Budapest–Seoul flights reduced: one direct route ends, widening travel gap with Korea

LOT Polish Airlines will discontinue its flights between Seoul and Budapest from the beginning of the summer timetable.
The Polish airline opened flights between Budapest and Seoul in September 2019, and also operated flights to New York and planned to open a base at the Hungarian capital’s airport with short-haul flights. Flights to Seoul and New York were temporarily suspended due to the pandemic, and only the South Korean route was later reinstated, with the number of flights being reduced to two per week periodically.
According to the Polish portal Rynek Lotniczy, the suspension of its Warsaw-Beijing flights will be extended in addition to the cancellation of the Budapest-Seoul direct flight. This means that there will be six flights a week to Seoul from Warsaw and one flight a week from Wrocław.According to the portal, LOT will shift capacity to North American routes, increasing flights to destinations such as Chicago and Toronto.
The only direct flight to Seoul from Budapest is now operated by Korean Air, which operates four times a week. The last time this flight was in the news, a Korean woman threw a tantrum on the plane, and after three hours of her family and flight attendants failing to calm her down, the pilots made an emergency landing in Kazakhstan, following safety protocol. At Astana airport, police officers were waiting for the woman who, after being arrested, simply fell asleep and when she woke up, claimed she had no memory of what had happened, Korea’s SBS News reported.
As we wrote earlier, there was also talk in October that a South Korean airline T’way is expanding its European network, which will lead to the arrival of its planes in Hungary in the future, details HERE.