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Budapest Airport listed as 6th worst airport in Europe
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Hopper Inc, an online travel agency has collected the 10 worst airports in Europe with record flight delays and cancellations and Budapest Airport is the 6th on their list.
As greekcitytimes.com reports, successive delays and constant cancellations await travellers at European Airports. At most airports in northern and western Europe, this is a daily issue. However, there are some airports that are on the top of the list in terms of flight delays and cancellations.
Budapest Airport is the 6th worst airport
According to the list compiled by Hopper Inc, these are the top 10 worst airports:
- Brussels Airport (BRU)
Brussels, Belgium: 72% of flights delayed and 2.5% cancelled - Frankfurt International Airport (FRA)
Frankfurt, Germany: 68% of flights delayed and 7.8% cancelled - Eindhoven Airport (EIN)
Eindhoven, Netherlands: 67% of flights delayed and 1.8% cancelled - Luton Airport (LTN)
London, UK: 66% of flights delayed and 2.7% cancelled - Lisbon Airport (LIS)
Lisbon, Portugal: 65% of flights delayed and 4.8% cancelled - Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)
Budapest, Hungary: 65% of flights delayed and 2.1% cancelled - Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG)
Paris, France: 62% of flights delayed and 3.1% cancelled - Schiphol Airport (AMS)
Amsterdam, Netherlands: 61% of flights delayed and 5.2% cancelled - Cote D’Azur Airport (NCE)
Nice, France: 60% of flights delayed and 3.4% cancelled - Gatwick Airport (LGW)
London, United Kingdom: 59% of flights delayed and 1.4% cancelled
At Liszt Ferenc International Airport, 65% of flights are delayed and 2.1% cancelled. With these figures, the airport in Budapest was listed as the 6th worst, with Brussels Airport being in the first place. However, it is worth noting that the above figures refer to percentages, i.e. what percentage of flights are delayed or cancelled. In absolute terms, the most delays are recorded at London Heathrow (51 percent). As the main reason for the chaos at European airports, the portal names staff shortages.
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Passengers had to spend the night at Budapest Airport
As we have written before, on 26 June, passengers had to spend the night at Budapest Airport. About 150-200 passengers could not collect their luggage. Therefore, they had to spend the night in the completely empty building. As it turned out, the staff had gone home earlier. Hence, there was no one to unload the planes. One of the planes was a low-cost Tel Aviv-Budapest flight. According to a passenger, families with small children and even babies had to spend the night at the airport. In addition, they did not receive any assistance.
The worst that is happening at Budapest is that is allowed a gang to search and steal content of luggage. It happened to me already 3 times that my luggage is opened and searched for values. Bad luck for them that the values go in my backpack but they tried their luck. They open easily the TSA locks of the luggage and use the airline delay to search the passengers luggage. This happened before Covid but seems the gabgis back as it happened to me already in July… Till when will the authorities allow these robberies???