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Feb 09, 2012 (newstodate): Hungary's Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport is working tirelessly to cover up the loss of traffic after the demise of the national carrier Malev on February 3, 2012.
Less than one week after the Malev crash, the airport announces that about 60 percent of Malev's former point-to-point network has now been reestablished by the entrance of new carriers and the increase of operations by existing airlines at the airport.
What remains unsolved is the issue of transfer traffic at the airport, where Malev generated 1.5 mio passengers annually, almost 99 percent of all transfer traffic at the airport.
-This transfer traffic may be gone forever, says Mihaly Hardy, Budapest Airport communication director.
-The only source of renewed transfer traffic would be a new Budapest-based network carrier, either a new Hungarian flag carrier, or a foreign airline. Both cases are purely hypothetical at this stage of recovery, says Mr Hardy.
In 2011 the airport handled a total of 8.9 mio passengers, up 8.9 percent, y-o-y.
Transfer passengers accounted for 17 percent of the total volume.
The now-defunct Malev contributed one-third of all traffic at the airport and 40 percent of the airport's revenue in 2011.
Less than one week after the Malev crash, the airport announces that about 60 percent of Malev's former point-to-point network has now been reestablished by the entrance of new carriers and the increase of operations by existing airlines at the airport.
What remains unsolved is the issue of transfer traffic at the airport, where Malev generated 1.5 mio passengers annually, almost 99 percent of all transfer traffic at the airport.
-This transfer traffic may be gone forever, says Mihaly Hardy, Budapest Airport communication director.
-The only source of renewed transfer traffic would be a new Budapest-based network carrier, either a new Hungarian flag carrier, or a foreign airline. Both cases are purely hypothetical at this stage of recovery, says Mr Hardy.
In 2011 the airport handled a total of 8.9 mio passengers, up 8.9 percent, y-o-y.
Transfer passengers accounted for 17 percent of the total volume.
The now-defunct Malev contributed one-third of all traffic at the airport and 40 percent of the airport's revenue in 2011.