The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PRG Prague to BUD Budapest
Vaclav Havel Airport, Czechia, to Budapest Ferenc Liszt, Hungary. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6 times a week
- Great circle
- 471 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 12m
- Door to door
- 7h 57m
What PRG to BUD looks like
The PRG to BUD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Prague PRG to Budapest BUD is a short sector of 471 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 471 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 12m.
Prague PRG is a major hub in the network held here, 191 scheduled destinations and 251.7 departures a day. Budapest BUD has 158 destinations and 222.9 departures a day.
Prague and Budapest keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 PRG to BUD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRG to BUD | 0.86 | 6 | Ryanair |
| BUD to PRG | 0.86 | 6 | Ryanair |
One carrier holds the sector, Ryanair, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 12 departures a week on PRG 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 1h 12m block time on PRG 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 PRG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PRG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PRG to BUD in the air, estimated | 72 min | 5h 42m |
| Formalities at BUD | 90 min | 7h 12m |
| Delivery run in Budapest | 45 min | 7h 57m |
| Door to door | 477 min | 7h 57m |
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 PRG to BUD is 7h 57m.
A courier who leaves Prague at 09:00 local is on the ground in Budapest at about 10:12 local and at the door by 12:27 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Budapest, the last useful departure from Prague is around 14:33 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. 107 of them join PRG to BUD.
| Connecting at | PRG to hub, flights a day | Hub to BUD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vienna VIE | 3.57 | 3.57 | 492 | 2h 59m |
| Krakow KRK | 0.57 | 1.14 | 690 | 3h 16m |
| Treviso TSF | 1.43 | 0.71 | 1,094 | 3h 37m |
| Munich MUC | 4.57 | 4.57 | 831 | 3h 43m |
| Belgrade BEG | 1.71 | 2.29 | 1,044 | 3h 48m |
| Warsaw WAW | 5 | 6.71 | 1,061 | 3h 49m |
107 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Vienna VIE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.6 times a day.
Through VIE the routing covers 492 km against the 471 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 59m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 47m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Krakow KRK at 3h 16m and Treviso TSF at 3h 37m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Prague, Leipzig LEJ is 205 km away by great circle and carries 85 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through PRG or BUD. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Skoda, Mlada BoleslavAssembly and component production. An hour from Prague, and Prague is the gate. Logistics through Prague PRG.
Plan Prague 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 PRG 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 PRG airport entry
- The BUD airport entry
- Hand carry into Czechia
- Hand carry into Hungary
- The written lane, Sharjah to Prague
- The written lane, Shanghai to Budapest
- The route calculator
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