Maastricht Airport, May 15th 2015: Wizz Air offers over 38.000 available seats annually on the route Maastricht Aachen Airport – Budapest.
Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe* commenced today its new service Maastricht – Budapest. Wizz Air has over 38,000 seats available on this route during its first year in operation. The first 127 passengers arrived at 16.10h from Budapest and were welcomed by H.E. Ms. Orsolya Szijjártó, Hungarian ambassador in The Netherlands and Mr. Ralf Krewinkel, mayor of Municipality Beek. The first 146 passengers from Maastricht Aachen Airport to Hungary departed today at 16.40h.
Tickets for Maastricht – Budapest can be booked on wizzair.com with fares starting as low as EUR € 14,99**. The route will be operated twice weekly. Budapest is the capital of Hungary and one of the most beautiful cities in Central Europe with a great cultural heritage. Tourists that visit Budapest are mainly impressed by the breath-taking panorama with the Danube, the mountains and the diverse and wide variety of cultural and architectural highlights of the city. Youngsters like to visit Budapest because of the youngish and creative atmosphere of the city that is also why Budapest is growing as one of the start-up capitals of Europe.
H.E. Ms. Orsolya Szijjártó, Ambassador of Hungary in the Netherlands, stressed the contribution of this new flight to the economic and tourism relations between Hungary and the Netherlands. Since Maastricht is so close to the German and Belgian border, this flight will indirectly connect three countries with Hungary. Germany and the Netherlands are in the top 3 of the biggest investors in Hungary and the Ambassador expressed her hope that this new flight will even further enhance business cooperation with these countries. Hungary has had excellent economic growth numbers last year (a GDP growth of 3,5% in 2014, the second-best GDP growth in the EU), so there are numerous opportunities for doing business with Hungary.
Tamara Mshvenieradze, Wizz Air’s Corporate Communications Manager, today at Maastricht Aachen Airport said: “This is a great day for both Wizz Air and Maastricht. We fly from 3 Dutch airports to 10 different countries and after carrying 1.9 million passengers on our Dutch routes it is a pleasure to add Budapest from Maastricht Airport to the growing number of WIZZ destinations. We look forward to carry many passengers on our new Budapest route and hope that Dutch consumers keep embracing our low fares and friendly service.”
Sander Heijmans, Director of Maastricht Aachen Airport explained: “We are delighted that today Wizz Air started operating from Maastricht Aachen Airport to Budapest and that we could welcome the first passengers. We look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with Wizz Air in the coming years and we are also very pleased next to the destination, Wizz Air now also connects our airport 2x weekly with the destination Budapest”.
