New flight to Eastern metropolis remains, Ryanair’s Budapest flight delayed by 28 hours
Air China will continue to operate 4 flights weekly between the Chinese capital and Budapest with their Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. In the meantime, Ryanair passengers had to wait more than 28 hours for their return flight to Budapest in Milan.
According to airportal.hu, the Chinese airline plans 4 direct flights between Budapest and Beijing even in their winter timetable. The new schedule will start on 27 October. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners will carry passengers on Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. Planes will depart from Beijing at 2.55 AM local time, land in Budapest at 6.25 AM (Budapest time), then return to the Chinese capital under the CA 720 flight number at 11.25 AM (Budapest time) to arrive at 3:35 AM local time.
Air China will fly between Budapest and Chongqing once a week with Dreamliners. The Chinese airline increased the number of flights between Budapest and Beijing from two to three this April. In most of the summer schedule, a 4th plane commuted.
Fewer flights to South Korea
According to Budflyer, in the winter period, Polish LOT plans only two Budapest-Seoul flights weekly. Furthermore, they do not plan to operate 4 flights weekly in the 2025 summer session.
Passengers waited 28 hours for their Budapest return flight
According to 444.hu, passengers returning to Budapest landed on Sunday instead of Saturday with their Ryanair flight. The delay was almost 28 hours.
One of the passengers told RTL Klub that they received a EUR 4 voucher in Milan, but could not buy anything. At dawn, the airline took them to a two-star hostel, which they had to leave at noon to return to the airport and continue waiting more than 12 hours.
The Budapest government office is conducting 15 probes concerning delays and cancellations of airlines like Wizz Air, Ryanair, and Eurowings. Passengers of three airlines already got compensation. We noted today that Hungarocontrol rewrote air traffic controllers’ schedule to have more employees working in the 5 AM–7 AM time slot. As a result, morning delays could be reduced. Such delays resulted in serious problems all over Europe in June. However, the core of the problem has not been solved: there are still not enough traffic controllers due to low salaries.
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