New flight between Budapest and Istanbul – first plane landed, PHOTOS

AnadoluJet, the low-cost subsidiary of Turkish Airlines, will start operating three flights a week from Istanbul to Budapest starting from 2 June. The first flight arrived at Budapest Airport on Thursday.

AnadoluJet welcomed to Budapest

A new airline, AnadoluJet was welcomed at Budapest Airport, which arrived Thursday morning from Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport. The airline’s Boeing 737-800 aircraft will fly to Budapest three times a week, Travelo reported earlier. The AnadoluJet aircraft have 189 seats.

The flights will operate on Thursdays and Fridays in the morning and on Sundays in the afternoon.

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Three flights per week with the low-cost airline

As airportal.hu reports, Turkish Airlines operates three flights per day from Istanbul’s main airport to Budapest, which reaches the pre-pandemic capacity. Now,

AnadoluJet will add three flights per week, so the seat capacity will be 7% higher than in 2019,

said Balázs Bogáts, Head of Flight Development at Budapest Airport, in his speech at the official greeting event of the new airline on Thursday.

Timetables

There are 42 flights a week between Budapest and Turkey this summer peak season – July -, offering more than 7,400 seats one way. In addition to Istanbul’s two airports, Izmir and Antalya can also be reached directly from Ferihegy.