Budapest Ferenc Liszt Airport (BUD)

Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport — still “Ferihegy” to locals — is Hungary’s largest airport, 16 km south-east of the city centre on the Pest side. Every commercial flight uses Terminal 2: the adjoining 2A and 2B halls, joined by the SkyCourt departures building; the old Terminal 1 has been closed to airline traffic since 2012.

It is the headquarters and primary hub of Wizz Air and a base for Ryanair, so the schedule is low-cost heavy — but the European network carriers are all here, and there are long-haul flights to the Gulf, China and Korea, with North America returning seasonally in 2026. In 2025, 45 airlines served 154 destinations.

It handled 17.6 million passengers in 2024 and 19.6 million in 2025 — second only to Vienna among the airports we work from, and ahead of Prague and Kraków. Since 2024 the Hungarian state owns 80% and VINCI Airports operates it; a new terminal is in preparation, with capacity works under way in the current building.

Coaches load at the Bus Terminal directly in front of Terminal 2 — a two-minute walk from both 2A and 2B, with a covered walkway to the doors. Drop-offs use the Premium Parking lane on the departure level; waiting coaches hold in the separate Bus Parking area. The arrivals kerb is reserved for public buses, licensed taxis and permit holders, so the meeting point is inside: our name board waits in the arrivals hall of the terminal your flight uses — 2A for Schengen, 2B for non-Schengen.

From the doors it is 16 km to the centre — about 22 km by road from Terminal 2 to Deák tér — and roughly 20 minutes to the Pest riverfront outside the peaks. Košice is about three hours north on the M3, M30 and R4, motorway almost the whole way since 2021 — our routing when a group’s flights do not reach Košice.

Choose BUD over Vienna when the group flies Wizz Air or Ryanair or starts in Budapest; Vienna wins on long-haul choice and its 45-minute run to Bratislava. Choose BUD over Košice for a direct long-haul or a big low-cost network; Košice wins when the itinerary stays in the east and a hub connection via Vienna, Warsaw, Prague or Zurich works.

We run name-board meet & greet, coach and private transfers and the full ground programme from BUD at net rates — including open-jaw routings in via BUD and out via Vienna, Bratislava or Košice, or the reverse.