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5 Billion & Counting: MÁV Group Sees Record Passenger Growth in Hungary

• 4 Nov 2025 5:59 AM

Thanks to the new tariff system based on county and national passes, more and more people are traveling with MAV Group, Zsolt Hegyi, the CEO of the state-owned transportation company said.

Hegyi said that based on time-proportional data the number of passenger trips managed by the company this year is expected to exceed 1 billion.

He noted that the vast majority of passengers travel with passes, not tickets, which makes it difficult to assess exact passenger numbers.

Hegyi said previously a pass was counted as 52 trips, but now only 26 trips are counted for a student national pass, and only 30 for a full-price adult national pass.

He said that nearly 1m passes are sold every month and currently one-third of these are national passes.

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