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Ryanair vs Budapest: playing dirty?
The battle to acquire airline passengers from Budapest in the wake of last week’s demise of Malev, the former flag carrier, took a strange turn on Tuesday, when the airport and low-cost airline Ryanair...
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Ryanair and Budapest Airport: setting the record straight
Tempers frayed and positions were decorously adjusted on Wednesday after beyondbrics reported on conflicting statements regarding Ryanair’s ability to operate planned new flights out of Budapest for...
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Budapest airport: Ryanair pick up passengers, but who picks up the tab?
The scene: the back end of an otherwise swish Budapest hotel. “Excuse my Hungarian press release: we are a low-cost airline, and we use low-cost translators,” said Michael O’Leary, as he squeezed past...
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Budapest airport: an object lesson
If any business school wants a case study in how a government can mismanage an airport – here’s one, courtesy of Hungary. Scenario: you are a cabinet minister; your flag carrier airline has flown its...
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Ryanair boss: I want a statue (of me)
The re-launch of Ryanair‘s services from Budapest has “probably” been the most successful start up ever for Ryanair, Michael O’Leary declared in the Hungarian capital on Thursday. But the low-cost...
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Budapest Airport takes Hungary’s business environment to court
“Creating new jobs, developing Hungarian businesses to reach new markets, and investment promotion for foreign investors. These are the aims of Hungary. Cost efficiency, high human capital productivity...
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Budapest airport: the drop-off race is on
Good and bad news from Liszt Ferenc Airport. The good: the German-owned operator has introduced an “improved” and “more efficient” parking system. The bad: you, dear travellers, tourists and business...
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Ryanair to cut 1 in 3 Budapest routes
Ryanair, the bargain-basement Irish carrier, is cutting one in three of its routes to Budapest as a result of increases in landing and handling fees imposed by both Budapest Airport, the German-owned...
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Ryanair in Budapest: good with numbers?
As beyondbrics reported on Wednesday, Ryanair is to cut ten of its routes into Budapest. The low-cost airline will also reduce frequencies on nine of its remaining 20 routes into the Hungarian capital...
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Budapest Airport: not bad, thanks
That was then. Photo: Bloomberg Just one year ago, in the pre-dawn gloom of Friday February 3, the normally busy but orderly passenger terminals at Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc Airport were in chaos. Malév,...
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Hungary: new airline hawkish on detail
Not many new airlines introduce themselves with a language lesson and explanations of cultural symbolism. But then, Hungary’s newest carrier seems determined to set itself apart from the...
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