Budapest Airport announces a new three-year incentive scheme to boost traffic at Ferihegy Airport
Source: Budapest Airport
19/12/2007
Budapest Airport (BA) has presented its new tariff manual valid as of 1 January 2008. The document records the landing, parking, noise protection and passenger service charges at Ferihegy Airport.
The new tariffs package contains a three-year incentive scheme that supports airlines in launching new flights and expanding the frequency of their existing flights with significant discounts.
If an airline decides to add a new destination to the list of cities accessible from Budapest Airport, it does not have to pay landing fees at all for one year, and receives a fifty percent discount in the second year. In the third year, when the service has become well known to passengers, it has to pay three-quarters of the landing fee.
BA will provide even stronger incentives for the expansion of long haul flights. Airlines launching overseas or intercontinental flights will receive an exemption from landing charges in the first year and a discount of seventy-five percent in the second, and of fifty percent in the third year.
Landing fee discounts for increasing the frequency of existing flights have also been increased. Airlines undertaking to increase the frequency of already operating flights between Budapest and an existing destination will not receive a twenty-five, but a fifty percent discount during the first year.
The table under the Notes to editors section illustrates the changes to the new landing fee discounts, compared to the old scheme.
A few examples of the savings that the new incentive scheme will bring for airlines: If an airline launches a new flight to a European city four times a week with a Boeing 737-800, it could save about 280,000 Euro under the new 3-year incentive scheme.
If the airline launches a flight to Asia four times a week with a Boeing 767-300, the sum saved could be approximately 660,000 Euro.
Budapest Airport Deputy CEO Dimitrios Gatsonis said: “Our new airport charges support the airlines that would like to expand their operations at Ferihegy and are contributing to boosting traffic at Budapest Airport and tourism in Hungary. This is a significant step, but we have to continue our marketing efforts and the dialog with interested airlines as well as the cooperation with the other stakeholders of the travel industry in order to attract more airlines and passengers to Budapest and Hungary, and to make Budapest Airport the most successful airport in Central Eastern Europe.”
The table below shows the landing fee discount of the new incentive scheme published in the tariff manual of 2008, compared with the old one. ..
Landing fee discount
2007
New
destination 50% (1st year), 25% (2nd year), 0 (3rd year)
New long haul
destination 50% (1st year), 25% (2nd year), 0 (3rd year)
Increasing
the frequency 25% (1st year), 10% (2nd year), 0 (3rd year)
of existing
flights
2008
New
destination 100% (1st year), 50% (2nd year), 25% (3rd year)
New long haul
destination 100% (1st year), 75% (2nd year), 50% (3rd year)
Increasing
the frequency 50% (1st year), 25% (2nd year), 10% (3rd year)
of existing
flights
Budapest Airport introduced the current, outgoing incentive scheme in 2004.
Source: Budapest Airport
19/12/2007
Budapest Airport (BA) has presented its new tariff manual valid as of 1 January 2008. The document records the landing, parking, noise protection and passenger service charges at Ferihegy Airport.
The new tariffs package contains a three-year incentive scheme that supports airlines in launching new flights and expanding the frequency of their existing flights with significant discounts.
If an airline decides to add a new destination to the list of cities accessible from Budapest Airport, it does not have to pay landing fees at all for one year, and receives a fifty percent discount in the second year. In the third year, when the service has become well known to passengers, it has to pay three-quarters of the landing fee.
BA will provide even stronger incentives for the expansion of long haul flights. Airlines launching overseas or intercontinental flights will receive an exemption from landing charges in the first year and a discount of seventy-five percent in the second, and of fifty percent in the third year.
Landing fee discounts for increasing the frequency of existing flights have also been increased. Airlines undertaking to increase the frequency of already operating flights between Budapest and an existing destination will not receive a twenty-five, but a fifty percent discount during the first year.
The table under the Notes to editors section illustrates the changes to the new landing fee discounts, compared to the old scheme.
A few examples of the savings that the new incentive scheme will bring for airlines: If an airline launches a new flight to a European city four times a week with a Boeing 737-800, it could save about 280,000 Euro under the new 3-year incentive scheme.
If the airline launches a flight to Asia four times a week with a Boeing 767-300, the sum saved could be approximately 660,000 Euro.
Budapest Airport Deputy CEO Dimitrios Gatsonis said: “Our new airport charges support the airlines that would like to expand their operations at Ferihegy and are contributing to boosting traffic at Budapest Airport and tourism in Hungary. This is a significant step, but we have to continue our marketing efforts and the dialog with interested airlines as well as the cooperation with the other stakeholders of the travel industry in order to attract more airlines and passengers to Budapest and Hungary, and to make Budapest Airport the most successful airport in Central Eastern Europe.”
The table below shows the landing fee discount of the new incentive scheme published in the tariff manual of 2008, compared with the old one. ..
Landing fee discount
2007
New
destination 50% (1st year), 25% (2nd year), 0 (3rd year)
New long haul
destination 50% (1st year), 25% (2nd year), 0 (3rd year)
Increasing
the frequency 25% (1st year), 10% (2nd year), 0 (3rd year)
of existing
flights
2008
New
destination 100% (1st year), 50% (2nd year), 25% (3rd year)
New long haul
destination 100% (1st year), 75% (2nd year), 50% (3rd year)
Increasing
the frequency 50% (1st year), 25% (2nd year), 10% (3rd year)
of existing
flights
Budapest Airport introduced the current, outgoing incentive scheme in 2004.
