Polish airline LOT has filed for slots to launch daily flights between Budapest and Belgrade starting September 1st.
The service, which is yet to be officially confirmed by the airline, is expected to depart the Hungarian capital late in the evening, arriving in Belgrade at 23:35. The inbound service is expected to operate early in the morning the following day at 05:10, giving passengers the opportunity to connect onto the carrier’s short-haul network from Budapest, primarily London City and Brussels, with the latter to launch on September 2nd.
Furthermore, the carrier will introduce services to Bucharest, as well as station an Embraer E195 jet in the Hungarian capital.
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The Warsaw-based airline is creating its first airport hub outside of Poland in response to recent growth and route expansion opportunities. The aim is to position LOT as the new transfer airline of Eastern Europe.
Apart from London, the carrier already operates to several destinations from Budapest, including New York, Chicago, Krakow and Warsaw.
LOT’s CEO, Rafal Milczarski, previously said: “With new flights, we will start developing transfer traffic via Budapest Airport. It is a smart way to further establish the airline as the preferred choice for travelling in the region”. The Polish carrier currently maintains eleven weekly flights between Warsaw and Belgrade, which will increase to twelve weekly in late September.
The national carrier of Belarus, Belavia, currently runs two weekly services from Budapest to Belgrade, which will be discontinued on October 24th. The airline will instead operate three weekly nonstop flights from Minsk.
Air Serbia launched daily flights to the Hungarian capital in March 2014 but suspended the service in October the following year due to poor demand. It will introduce two weekly flights between Niš and Budapest from August 1st.
In 2017, Wizz Air, with the support of the Hungarian government, launched flights from Budapest to Priština, Skopje, Podgorica, Sarajevo and Tirana, which have so far proven successful.
(B92, 18.07.2019)
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