Budapest Airport scoops CAPA Airport Marketing Award

2012-11-29 — /travelprnews.com/ — Hard on the heels of its success at Routes Europe, Budapest Airport has once more been acclaimed for its marketing prowess with the accolade of the 2012 Airport Marketing Award for Excellence (for airports handling between 5-15 million passengers) from CAPA – Centre for Aviation.

CAPA, a leadingglobal provider of independent aviation market intelligence, analysis and data, applauded Budapest for its achievement amidst a particularly strong field of competition. Thedistinguished panel of international judgesrecognised that Budapest Airport had displayed great initiative in implementing an outstanding marketing programme for attracting airlines over the past 18 months.

Now in its 10th year, the CAPA Awards for Excellencewhich comprise eight categories have previously been confined to the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. This year CAPA have extended the Awards to recognise global achievement. The prestigious Awards ceremony will take place at a Gala Reception on the evening of November 28th at The InterContinental Grand Stanford Hotel in Hong Kongas part of CAPA’s high level World Aviation Summit to be held on 28/29 November 2012. Kam Jandu Aviation Diroctor of Budapest Airport will be accepting the Award on behalf of the Airport.

Kam Jandu, Aviation Director for Budapest Airport said: “We are absolutely delighted to be recognised again for our outstanding marketing ability particularly given the stiff competition.This Award represents the combined efforts of the entire marketing team at Budapest Airport. We are immensely proud to accept it and it is particularly gratifying to have our achievements acknowledged by industry experts.”

Budapest Airport has regularly featured in the roll call of winning or highly commended airports, last year scooping the title as overall winner of the Routes Europe Airport Marketing Award.

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