The sector is held by Freebird Airlines, LATAM Argentina, Smartwings Hungary Kft, Sun Express, Tailwind and Wizz Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
AYT Antalya to BUD Budapest
Antalya Airport, Türkiye, to Budapest Ferenc Liszt, Hungary. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,506 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 25m
- Door to door
- 9h 10m
What AYT to BUD looks like
The AYT to BUD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Antalya AYT to Budapest BUD is a medium haul sector of 1,506 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,506 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 25m.
Antalya AYT is a major hub in the network held here, 182 scheduled destinations and 518.9 departures a day. Budapest BUD has 158 destinations and 222.9 departures a day.
Budapest runs 2 hours behind of Antalya in January and one hour behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on AYT to BUD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYT to BUD | 4.71 | 33 | Freebird Airlines, LATAM Argentina, Smartwings Hungary Kft, Sun Express, Tailwind, Wizz Air |
| BUD to AYT | 4.71 | 33 | Freebird Airlines, LATAM Argentina, Smartwings Hungary Kft, Sun Express, Tailwind, Wizz Air |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 4.7 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 65.9 departures a week on AYT to BUD, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 2h 25m block time on AYT to BUD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to AYT | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At AYT before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| AYT to BUD in the air, estimated | 145 min | 6h 55m |
| Formalities at BUD | 90 min | 8h 25m |
| Delivery run in Budapest | 45 min | 9h 10m |
| Door to door | 550 min | 9h 10m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for AYT to BUD is 9h 10m.
A courier who leaves Antalya at 09:00 local is on the ground in Budapest at about 09:25 local and at the door by 11:40 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Budapest, the last useful departure from Antalya is around 15:20 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 65 of them join AYT to BUD.
| Connecting at | AYT to hub, flights a day | Hub to BUD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sofia SOF | 1.57 | 1.43 | 1,522 | 4h 04m |
| Belgrade BEG | 2.43 | 2.29 | 1,547 | 4h 17m |
| Istanbul SAW | 25.86 | 2 | 1,544 | 4h 19m |
| Bucharest OTP | 6.14 | 1.57 | 1,557 | 4h 22m |
| Istanbul IST | 19 | 3.29 | 1,536 | 4h 34m |
| Tirana TIA | 3.12 | 2.14 | 1,749 | 4h 37m |
With 4.7 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
65 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Sofia SOF, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through SOF the routing covers 1,522 km against the 1,506 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 04m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 39m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Belgrade BEG at 4h 17m and Istanbul SAW at 4h 19m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Antalya, Rhodes RHO is 248 km away by great circle and carries 117 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Budapest, Bratislava BTS is 173 km away by great circle and carries 88 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Antalya to Budapest yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for AYT to BUD in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The AYT airport entry
- The BUD airport entry
- Hand carry into Türkiye
- Hand carry into Hungary
- The written lane, Shanghai to Budapest
- The route calculator
More pairs through AYT and BUD: Dusseldorf to Antalya, Berlin to Antalya, Prague to Antalya, Stuttgart to Antalya, Hannover to Antalya, Hamburg to Antalya, Antalya to Dubai, Bratislava to Antalya.