Plane ticket prices increased significantly in Hungary: here is why
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Flying from Hungary to popular European and non-European destinations has become much more expensive in the last few years. But why have ticket prices soared?
According to 24.hu, after 2019, the average price increase concerning return plane ticket prices from Budapest reached 40-60%. In the case of some routes, the increase was HUF 10,000 (EUR 26) between 2022 and 2023.
The trend is similar in the case of every European destination. For example, in 2019, the last year before the pandemic, you could travel to London for HUF 43,000 (EUR 111) on average. Last year, that sum went up to HUF 60,000 (EUR 155). In the case of Amsterdam, the route’s cost increased from HUF 78,000 (EUR 202) to HUF 111,000 (EUR 284). The price increase is even more significant for Transatlantic destinations. For example, in 2019, you could travel to Miami for HUF 205,000 (EUR 530). Last year, that cost HUF 301,000 (EUR 778), so the rise is 50%. The cost of travel to Bangkok doubled during the same period.
Based on the graph 24.hu made using the data of repjegy.hu, there are only two destinations where the average price of plane tickets decreased: Dubai and Istanbul.
The online department leader of repjegy.hu, Zoltán Holczinger, said that the reason behind that trend is not only the departure tax (excess profit tax) of the Hungarian government. Of course, that price is included in the ticket price. However, operation and fuel costs and salaries increased drastically between 2019 and 2023. There are airlines that did not reopen routes from Budapest because of the departure tax.
Why? That’s simple: It’s all part of the globalist-socialist Agenda 2030. They want us to eat bugs, shiver in cold homes, not drive or fly anywhere, and live (or better said, exist) in soulless “15-minute cities.” This is being implemented, piecemeal, all over the developed world and the masses are sleepwalking right into it.