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More options to charge electronic devices at Budapest Airport
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Budapest Airport has installed a total of 11 new charging stations in the landside area of the airport, before security screening. The charging stations are each equipped with 6 USB-C and 6 USB-A, 3 European standard compliant and 1 UK standard compliant, as well as 4 inductive charging units, ensuring that all passengers can find the charging point that suits their devices.
In addition to the newly installed stations, the charging of electronic devices remains possible at the existing stations within the transit area of the airport, such as at all passenger seats on the pier on the A side and at the counters in the area of the food and beverage outlets, bud.hu wrote.
10 million passengers in 10 months at Budapest Airport
As we leave the summer behind us, passenger traffic at Ferenc Liszt International Airport is slowly decreasing. Although the monthly passenger number remained above one million in October, traffic compared to 2019 fell from 80-82% in the summer months to 79%. In the tenth month of the year, 1,169,679 arriving and departing passengers used Budapest Airport. The airport has thus registered 10,230,431 passengers in total so far in 2022, 220% more than last year.
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Last year, Budapest Airport’s forecast assumed a full recovery of passenger traffic in 2023. However, the recently introduced tax created an additional burden for airlines and resulted in canceled capacities for this fall and the upcoming winter season. Based on this and the impacts of high inflation and a slowing economy, BUD revised and reduced its forecast by 2 million passengers. This not only impacts Budapest Airport, but the entire tourism industry, generating over 100 billion HUF of potential revenues lost for the sector.
Following a slight decrease in September, cargo volumes increased by 11.2% in October, compared to the same period last year; Budapest Airport handled 17,011 tons of cargo last month. The increase is due to a surge in traffic, caused by the year-end peak season, as well as the joint work of the airport and the air cargo community. As a result, Budapest Airport is delivering strong results, despite the global slowdown seen in cargo.
