Budapest Airport announces new Flights.

Thursday 11th April 2013

Budapest Airport announces new transavia.com flights to Rotterdam, Aegean Airlines flights to Athens and the start of Norwegian's schedule to Helsinki.

Budapest Airport continues to bolster its route offering with the announcement that Greek-based Star Alliance member, Aegean Airlines will return by popular demand to operate a non-stop service to Athens and Dutch airline transavia.com will begin direct scheduled services to Rotterdam. Transavia.com's new service to Rotterdam will replace its existing service to Amsterdam which ceased on 1st April. In addition Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, Norwegian, will begin to operate three times weekly flights to Helsinki in Finland from April 11.

Transavia schedule:

Transavia.com will operate four times weekly commencing on April 3rd, utilising a 149-seat Boeing 737-700 aircraft.

Mondays

Depart Rotterdam 12:15 Arrive Budapest 14:15

Depart Budapest 14:55 Arrive Rotterdam 17:00

Wednesdays

Depart Rotterdam 13:05 Arrive Budapest 15:05

Depart Budapest 15:45 Arrive Rotterdam 17:50

Fridays

Depart Rotterdam 13:15 Arrive Budapest 15:15

Depart Budapest 15:55 Arrive Rotterdam 18:00

Sundays

Depart Rotterdam 13:25 Arrive Budapest 15:25

Depart Budapest 16:05 Arrive Rotterdam 18:10

**Local times are shown:

Tickets are available to book now at: www.transavia.com.

Aegean Airlines schedule:

Aegean Airlines previously operated the Budapest route from March through to the end of 2012. This year will see it operate a three times a week service commencing on April 2nd utilising a 168-seat Airbus A320s configured in two classes.

Saturdays, Tuesdays, Thursdays

Depart Athens 14:45 Arrive Budapest 15:45

Depart Budapest 16:35 Arrive Athens 19:35Local times are shown

Tickets are available now at www.aegeanair.com.

Norwegian Airlines Schedule:

The Helsinki-Budapest route will operate utilising a B737-800 with lead in fares starting from 45 Euros available now at www.norwegian.com

Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays

Depart Helsinki 19:40 Arrive Budapest 20:55

Depart Budapest 21:25 Arrive Helsinki 00:40

**Local times are shown

Kam Jandu, Budapest Airport's Aviation Director comments: "We are extremely pleased to welcome these routes as they broaden the flight offering from Budapest. As Greece's largest airline it's good to see Aegean reinstate the popular and important Athens route. We are equally pleased to see the introduction of transavia.com's service to the commercially and strategically important city of Rotterdam. We anticipate that they will both be very popular routes. The Athens route will fulfil the growing demand for short city breaks and the Rotterdam route will be a particularly important business destination. Norwegian's flights to Helsinki will meet the needs of all travellers, and further extends our relationship with the airline. We look forward to working with all the airlines to ensure the routes are a success."

About Budapest Airport:

Budapest Airport Zrt. operates Budapest Airport. This is privately owned with German company HOCHTIEF AirPort, one of the world's biggest independent airport managers holding a 49.67% stake, together with a further four financial investors: Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Montreal holding a 18.17% stake; Malton Investment Pte Ltd. holding a 18.17% stake; Aero Investment S.á.r.l. holding a 10% stake and KfW IPEX-Bank, Frankfurt holding a 4% stake.

Budapest Airport aims to be the best airport in the Central and Eastern European region and has been recognised for their development projects, customer services approach and marketing activities.

www.bud.hu

About transavia.com :

- transavia.com, a member of the Air France/KLM Group, provides scheduled service and charter flights to more than 90 destinations. transavia.com distinguishes itself through its 'low fare with care' policy and offers an attractive basic price with additional (paid) products and services. In the Netherlands, the airline flies from the national airport of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, as well as the regional airports of Rotterdam The Hague Airport, Eindhoven Airport and Groningen Airport Eelde. transavia.com also operates from Paris through Transavia France. Nearly 90% of airline tickets are sold through the website, which receives more than 1.5 million unique visitors monthly, making this low-cost airline one of the largest online shops in the Netherlands.

About Aegean Airlines :

- Aegean Airlines S.A. is the largest Greek airline by total number of passengers carried, by number of destinations served and by fleet size. A Star Alliance member since 2010, it operates scheduled and charter services to a significant number of Greek and international destinations. Its main base is at Athens International Airport with secondary hubs at Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Rhodes, Corfu, Kos, Kalamata and Larnaca. Aegean offers its passengers premium services such as a dual-class cabin configuration, in-flight catering and reserved seating, through an extended domestic and international scheduled routes network.