New flight will connect Hungarian city with Türkiye

An airline submitted a plea for permission to launch a new passenger flight between Debrecen, Hungary’s second-biggest city and Istanbul, Türkiye’s biggest.

According to AIRportal.hu, Hungary’s National Transport Authority (NKH) received the submitted plea. The media outlet does not know the airline’s name since the statement of the NKH did not disclose that. It talked only about an unused route between Istanbul and Debrecen. The route was established by a bilateral agreement.

The relevant statement was shared on 22 September. According to the rules, another airline may submit a plea until 21 October. If that happens, the NKH has to decide which company receives the option. The process is the first step of launching a new flight between the two cities provided such routes are authorised by bilateral agreements.

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In Istanbul, there are two big airports. One is on the European side, the IST, which opened only years ago. That is the headquarters of Turkish Airlines, which – according to some statements – may plan to open a new route between Budapest and Ankara. We wrote about that initiative in THIS article.

Budflyer, a Hungarian air travel news outlet, wrote that Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air, and Germany’s flag carrier Lufthansa are currently active at Debrecen International Airport. Furthermore, Wizz relaunched its flight between Budapest and Istanbul this March. Therefore, the news hub suggests they may be behind the current plea. A comment writer agrees with that speculation, saying that Turkish Airlines has not yet returned even to Kassa (Kosice), Slovakia.