Wizz Air will start operations between Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc International Airport and Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport from the 23d September 2013. The well-known Wizz Air pink-purple livery planes will take off at 11.05 hours local time from Budapest and will arrive to Moscow at 15.30 hours (according to present time-table of Wizz Air). This makes late same-day negotiations possible for business people in Moscow. Wizz Air will fly at the beginning five times a day: on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays Fridays and Sundays. The return flight will leave Moscow at 16.05 and arrives to Budapest at 16.40 hours (due to the two hours’ time-difference between the two capitols).

Thus Wizz Air in a year and a half’s time has acquired four important non-EU routes of Malév (Kiev, Tel Aviv, Istanbul and Moscow) which represent approx. 200 000 passengers for Budapest and Hungarian tourism. On some of these routes (with only one airline flying) ticket prices have gone up as much as 30-50 % depending on class and destination. In some cases it was cheaper to fly to Moscow from Vienna than from Budapest. The first Wizz Air one-way tickets to Moscow are available for as low as 10 999 HUF per flight.

“We are sure that there is huge demand for the new Moscow service of Wizz Air and we wish every success on this market to our partner airline.” says Patrick Bohl, Head of Airline Business Development of Budapest Airport. He added: “The new destination of Wizz Air and the new airport in Moscow offers a very good travel opportunity and at very competitive prices.”

Wizz Air’s new destination airport, Vnukovo is based 28 kilometers South-West of Moscow’s city center and there is a direct fast rail transfer to downtown Kiyevski Railway Station which takes only 35 minutes. Vnukovo International Airport served 9,46 million passengers last year and is the home of a series of important Russian airlines.

Source: Budapest Airport