BUD Budapest

How deep the BUD board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BUD. This reads the same 158 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 96of the 158 destinations are flown by one airline
• 85destinations run less than once a day
• 13destinations have four or more departures a day
• 46.2%of the destinations name Wizz Air, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BUD

66 airlines appear on the BUD board and they do not hold it evenly. Wizz Air is on 73 of the 158 destinations, 46.2 per cent of them, and on 30 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 122.6 of the 222.9 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Ryanair on 67 destinations. 50 of the 66 airlines at BUD appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 73 of the 158 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a BUD sector is usually another Wizz Air aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at BUD than the destination count does.

How much of the BUD board is daily

Of the 158 destinations, 73 are flown at least once a day and 85 are not, 12 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BUD board is flown 6 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: BUD to Zhengzhou (CGO) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 34.7 of the 222.9 departures a day, 15.6 per cent of the whole board. With 53.8 per cent of the 158 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Algiers ALG	Algeria	Air Algerie	1	1,777	plan this
Almería LEI	Spain	Smartwings Hungary Kft	1	2,126	plan this
Bodrum BJV	Turkiye	Smartwings Hungary Kft	1	1,325	plan this
Chengdu TFU	China	Sichuan Airlines	1	7,241	plan this
Chongqing CKG	China	Air China	1	7,442	plan this
Cleveland CLE	the United States	Flexjet	1	7,459	plan this
Cluj-Napoca CLJ	Romania	EAT Leipzig	1	343	plan this
Farnborough FAB	the United Kingdom	ULC	1	1,507	plan this
Gran Canaria Island LPA	Spain	Ryanair	1	3,693	plan this
Kuwait City KWI	Kuwait	Jazeera Airways	1	3,189	the pair page

The ten destinations out of BUD where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 63 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from BUD

The desk holds the return direction for 121 of the 158 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into BUD runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Marrakech (RAK) at 0.71 out a day against 0.43 back, Bordeaux/Mérignac (BOD) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back and Istanbul (IST) at 4.5 out a day against 3.3 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LGW) files 2 a day back into BUD against 0.71 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at BUD

BUD keeps Europe/Budapest time, two hours behind Dubai in summer and three hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at BUD, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at BUD and still make a departure the same day.

The night at BUD

17 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BUD that lands inside it leaves around 21:26, on a modelled block of 1h 34m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BUD that lands inside it leaves around 21:00, on a modelled block of 2h 00m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from BUD that lands inside it leaves around 22:06, on a modelled block of 2h 24m. Those three departure times out of BUD are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where BUD turns up on the rest of this site

BUD carries two other pages on this site as well: the Hungary country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the BUD transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 53 airport pair pages that start or end at BUD, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Budapest to Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), Budapest to Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV) and Budapest to Warsaw (WAW).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Shanghai to Budapest. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at BUD written out.

14 courier postings name BUD as the airport a courier here flies from: Budapest, Szeged and Miskolc.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BUD already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 158 destinations above.