Flying to exotic destinations, USA, Canada from Budapest will become very easy

No, there will be no direct flights connecting Hungary with the USA, Canada, or other Transatlantic or exotic destinations. But the Austrian state railways will execute a long-awaited development that will help you get to the international airport of Vienna much easier and quicker. Therefore, the world opens up for tourists and Hungarians, embarking on a 2-hour-long comfortable train ride to the Austrian capital.

The info was shared by Dávid Vitézy, a distant relative of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who served as the CEO of the Budapest Development Centre (BFK) before the 2022 supermajority of Fidesz. Afterwards, the development centre was disbanded, and he became a state secretary responsible for transport for a while. After minister Palkovics’s resignation, he left the administration and is now working as a transport specialist.

Vitézy wrote that the Austrian state railways (Österreichische Bundesbahnen, ÖBB) will build a new railway line connecting Bruck an der Leitha (Lajtabruck) and the Schwechat international airport near Vienna. The development will be funded by the European Union. He also shared a map on which the red line marks the new railway connection. You can see it below:

All Budapest, Győr trains will go to the Austrian international airport

As a result, all trains coming from Budapest, Győr and Pozsony (Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia) will stop at the underground railway station of the Schwechat international airport. Vienna airport will be closer to West Hungary than Budapest. Furthermore, from Budapest, passengers will be able to reach Vienna and the Austrian international airport directly from Kelenföld railway station in just two hours. The development will increase the compatibility of the Vienna airport to another dimension in Central Europe.

Meanwhile, Hungary will terminate railway projects because of the lack of EU funds and state budget money. All of them were supported by the EU initially. But the government-EC debate made their realisation next to impossible. That is why, e.g. the main railway line leading to Miskolc from Budapest, will remain in ruins. Vitézy highlighted that European countries from Bulgaria to Portugal try to carry out projects similar to the Austrian example. Nobody does what the Hungarian government does in times of climate change and the energy crisis.