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Terminal 1, which has been closed for nine years, will remain in operation until the construction of the newest one, Terminal 3, ends. The latter will be open to passengers in 2028 at the earliest.
Budapest Airport, Terminal 1
According to the interview airportal.hu conducted with Chris Dinsdale, the CEO of Budapest Airport, Terminal 1 will reopen in 2024, according to plans. As we can read in hvg.hu’s article, according to Dinsdale, the impact of the coronavirus outbreak is becoming less noticeable at Budapest Airport. What is more, air traffic is expected to return to 2019 levels by 2024 and then continue to grow.
For this year, Dinsdale expects passenger traffic to be around 75% of their record year in 2019, but this could be pushed up or down slightly depending on what happens in Ukraine and the wider economy.
The CEO told airportal.hu that they have been preparing for the increase in passenger numbers for months, hiring new people to strengthen the operation of Terminal 2, and working on new security corridors and check-in desks.
Passengers
“I would note that in the three weeks since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, with the exception of Ukrainian and Russian destinations, we have not yet seen a drop in passenger traffic,”
