What a difference a week makes: A week later, on the very day of Malév’s collapse, Ryanair said it would open a base offering a total of 31 routes. Wizz Air has also announced 10 routes – others including Lufthansa, SmartWings and Aegean have also all been quick to cherry-pick ready-made routes.
Just one week on from Malév’s collapse Budapest airport is already seeing promising signs of recovery as airlines have been quick to respond to the opportunities presented. anna.aero has compiled a handy summary table of those services that have been announced in the last seven days. There are likely to be further additions in the coming weeks.
| Country | Destination (Airline, start date, weekly frequency) |
|---|---|
| Belgium | Brussels Charleroi (Ryanair, 21 February, 7) |
| Bulgaria | Sofia (Wizz Air, 3 April, 3) |
| Cyprus | Larnaca (SmartWings, 31 May, 4), Larnaca (Wizz Air, 4 April, 2) |
| France | Paris Beauvais (Ryanair, 21 February, 7), Paris CDG (SmartWings, 26 March, 12) |
| Germany | Berlin (airberlin, 6 February, 7), Berlin (Lufthansa, 6 February, 7), Hamburg (Lufthansa, 6 February, 7), Hamburg Lübeck (Ryanair, 18 February, 3) Karlsruhe-Baden (Ryanair, 17 February, 2), Memmingen (Ryanair, 18 February, 3) |
| Greece | Athens (Aegean Airlines, 9 March, 4), Athens (Smartwings, 27 April, 3), Chania (Ryanair, 28 March, 2), Heraklion (Wizz Air, 16 June, 1), Paphos (Ryanair, 28 March, 2), Rhodes (Ryanair, 27 March, 1), Rhodes (Wizz Air, 16 June, 1), Thessaloniki (Ryanair, 19 February, 2), Thessaloniki (Wizz Air, 3 April, 2), Zakynthos (Wizz Air, 16 June, 1) |
| Italy | Milan Bergamo (Ryanair, 21 February, 10), Pisa (Ryanair, 26 March, 2), Rome Ciampino (Ryanair, 21 February, 7), Trapani (Ryanair, 12 April, 2), Venice Treviso (Ryanair, 27 March, 3) |
| Netherlands | Eindhoven (Ryanair, April, 2) |
| Norway | Oslo Rygge (Ryanair, 18 February, 3) |
| Poland | Krakow (Ryanair, 18 February, 3), Warsaw (Wizz Air, 2 April, 4), Warsaw Modlin (Ryanair, 16 July, 7) |
| Romania | Bucharest Baneasa (Wizz Air, 2 March, 4), Cluj Napoca (Wizz Air, 3 April, 3) |
| Spain | Alicante (Ryanair, 26 March, 2), Barcelona (Ryanair, 17 February, 7), Barcelona (SmartWings, 26 April, 3), Madrid (Ryanair, 17 February, 4), Malaga (Ryanair, 26 March, 2), Malaga (Wizz Air, 2 April, 2), Palma de Mallorca (Ryanair, 28 March, 2) |
| Sweden | Gothenburg City (Ryanair, 19 February, 2), Stockholm Skavsta (Ryanair, 17 February, 2) |
| United Kingdom | Manchester (Ryanair, 18 February, 3) |
| Source: Various | |
As of Wednesday 8 February, Ryanair’s new base is still not 100% confirmed. Although the airline is selling seats for the 26 new services it has planned (it had announced definite plans to serve Birmingham, Bologna, Bristol, Dublin and London Stansted a week before Malév failed) it is understood that the final commercial agreement between the airline and the airport has not yet been finalised so these routes remain subject to confirmation.
Wizz Air’s 10 ‘new’ routes include five (Heraklion, Rhodes, Sofia, Thessaloniki and Warsaw) which the airline operated in the past. This means that Wizz Air will now serve 33 destinations from Budapest this summer using six based aircraft offering 2.5 million annual seats.
Other airlines have announced plans to increase capacity on existing routes to Budapest (such as Tarom to Bucharest) while other new routes starting this summer (Jet2.com to Leeds/Bradford and Blue1 to Helsinki) were announced before Malév’s demise.
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