Budapest Airport welcomes the launch of Wizz Air service to Baku, Azerbaijan

The first flight of Wizz Air from Budapest to Baku, Azerbaijan has left the runway of Liszt Ferenc International Airport at 21.59 hours. The flight to Baku takes approximately 4 hours from Budapest with the Airbus A 320 type 180-seat passenger aircraft of Wizz Air, the largest low-fare, low-cost airline of Central and Eastern Europe. Still before departure the pilots and the crew of Wizz Air Budapest-Baku service were presented with a special “first-flight” cake by Mr. Patrick Bohl, Head of Airline Business Development of Budapest Airport – a tradition that marks every inaugural flight of an airline from or to Budapest.

The start of the Baku flights were announced by Ms. Lászlóné Németh Zsuzsa, Minister of National Development of Hungary back in April when she had concluded successful talks with Azeri government officials in Baku. This announcement fits into the so-called “opening to the East” policy of the Hungarian government aimed at developing political and economic relations with the emerging markets of the Caucasus region, the Middle East and Central Asia. The new Wizz Air flight to Baku may well serve the development of business ties with Azerbaijan, an up-coming economy based on huge oil and gas revenues and developing fast in the past decade.

“We are extremely happy to see off the first flight of Wizz Air to Baku.” said Kam Jandu, Aviation Director of Budapest Airport. He added: “Wizz Air continues constantly to develop its route network from Budapest and this service to Azerbaijan opens up a whole new region that was missing from our network to our passengers. With the launch of an all-night, intercontinental flight Wizz Air has reached yet another important milestone in its steady development.”

Wizz Air flights will depart to Baku every Monday and Friday at 21.25 hours from Budapest. Besides the new flight to Azerbaijan Wizz Air has recently announced the start of a new service to Malta, Istanbul in Turkey and Dubai in the Gulf area (from November this year). They started new flights to Kiev and Tel Aviv last December. In order to be able to service all these new routes Wizz Air is planning to station yet another, seventh aircraft in Budapest this summer.

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