EasyJet launches new flight from Budapest to the City of Love, Wizz plane struck by lightning – VIDEO
British multinational low-cost airline group EasyJet will launch a new flight from Budapest to the City of Love, Paris this October.
New flight from Budapest to the French capital
According to airportal.hu, the flight will commute between Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc Airport (BUD) and Paris’s Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG). The planes will carry passengers four days weekly in the airline’s winter schedule.
The first flight will take off on 27 October from Budapest and will commute on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays between Paris and Budapest. The exact times of departure and arrival will change each week. The flight will not operate on 25 December and between 8 January and 5 February, based on the data from the airline’s booking system.
New flight to Lyon
Tickets are available until the end of the winter timetable, with the last flight available on 28 March. Before, EasyJet operated flights on the route until the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The British budget airline re-introduced its Budapest-Lyon flight in April. The first plane will take off on 21 August. Based on the plans, the new route will remain until October with two flights weekly. We detailed that and wrote about the moderate ticket prices for the flight in THIS article. Though EasyJet started to close their Budapest routes one after the other before, the new flights mean they do not plan to leave the Hungarian capital.
Wizz Air plane struck by lightning
A Wizz Air plane heading to London was struck by lightning, and a passenger made a video of the terrifying event and shared it in a PlaneSpotting Facebook group. Thankfully, nobody was injured, and they could continue their journey without a problem, hvg.hu wrote.
The lightning probably struck the nose cone of the aircraft while part of the electric charge left the plane through its wings.
Lightning does not endanger the planes since they are Faraday cages, so the hull made of metal diverts the electricity and protects all people travelling on board. Statistics say that an average plane gets struck by lightning once or twice yearly. Here is the video:
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