Great news: Ryanair resumes popular flight from Budapest!

From 4 June, Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair will restart its previously suspended service between Budapest and Tel Aviv. The flight will be available five times a week.

Budapest–Tel Aviv flights to resume

Tel Aviv, Israel. Source: depositphotos.com

From 4 June, Ryanair will offer five flights a week from Budapest to Tel Aviv, AIRportal.hu reports.

The Irish airline has announced that from the beginning of June, it will operate a total of 40 weekly flights to Israel from several of its European bases in Athens, Greece; Bari, Italy; Berlin, Germany; Budapest, Hungary; Malta; Milan, Italy; and Paphos, Cyprus.

From 4 June, the airline will operate five flights a week between Budapest and Tel Aviv: every day except on Mondays and Sundays.

Ryanair, like several other airlines, suspended its flights to Israel in October 2023.

“It is great news that Ben Gurion Airport is reopening Terminal 1, which has enabled Ryanair to resume operations in Tel Aviv from Monday 3 June,” a spokesperson for the airline is quoted as saying by Budflyer, a Hungarian aviation news Facebook page.

Ryanair restarted some flights in February but closed them soon

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According to Flightglobal, in February, the company restarted some flights to Tel Aviv. However, due to the closure of the low-cost Terminal 1 at Ben Gurion Airport, it was only able to use Terminal 3, which was more expensive. The airline temporarily requested a reduction in charges, but the operator refused Thus, Ryanair suspended flights again after a few weeks until the reopening of Terminal 1 in June.

As Daily News Hungary previously reported, Wizz Air re-launched its flights to Tel Aviv at the beginning of March, operating three times a week from Budapest on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays.

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