Budapest Airport has witnessed the inauguration of three new regular cargo flight operations, seeing the strengthening of the Hungarian gateway’s regional leadership role in air cargo. The cargo airline will operate between Budapest and Zhengzhou (CGO) using a B747 freighter, accelerating the development of the airport’s global air cargo route network and bringing new capacities for the BUD-CGO route, which has been operating successfully since 2019 to the rapidly developing cargo gateway in China. René Droese, chief development officer, Budapest Airport, comments: “The launch of three new cargo flights is yet another sign of Budapest’s ideal positioning as a cargo hub in CEE, for all airlines and logistics partners. Another important advantage of these new flights is that all three are served with large capacity cargo aircraft. This helps us to manage our cargo traffic development in a sustainable way, without a significant increase in air cargo movements.”Last year, Budapest Airport handled a record cargo volume of 194,000 tons, which was achieved with fewer aircraft movements, with cargo flights down 11.5% compared to 2021.

Source: Ethiopian News May 26, 2023 19:49 UTC