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Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport is the largest and busiest airport in Hungary, serving millions of passengers annually. It was previously known as Ferihegy, but was renamed in 2011, on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ferenc Liszt.
It has connections to airports in Europe, North America, the Far East, Africa and the Middle East. The airport is the primary headquarters of Wizz Air and is also an important base for Ryanair. Until February 3, 2012, the airport served as the headquarters of Malév.
In 2015, the first direct flights to North America and the Middle East from Budapest were announced after a few years. With the continuous expansion of low-cost airlines since 2003, Budapest Airport has experienced unprecedented growth, showing outstanding values in the region.
The traffic of the largest airport in Hungary in 2025 exceeded 19 million passengers and 420,000 tons of air cargo.
Public transport provides easy access to the city centre from Budapest Airport. The bus stops are located on the arrivals level, between the two terminals.
100E Airport Express bus: direct connection to the city center
The 100E Airport Express bus provides a direct, convenient, economical and fast connection between Liszt Ferenc International Airport and Deák Ferenc Square, a key transport hub on the Pest side of the city. Buy and validate tickets directly on the bus using your bankcard for the Budapest Pay&GO service.
Timetable:
Buses run around the clock, every 6-10 minutes during the day, every 10-15 minutes in the morning and evening, and every 20-40 minutes on average at night.
100E Airport Express passenger drop-off points on the way to the city centre:
100E Airport Express boarding points in the city centre on the way to the airport:
Ticket prices :
Attention! Passengers require a special ticket for 100E Airport Express: the airport shuttlebus single ticket costs 2,200 HUF. Other types of tickets or passes (Budapest-passes, daily travelcards, Hungary Passes and Pest County Passes) are NOT accepted.
200E Bus: Regular, scheduled public transport service to the city
Bus line 200E operates day and night between Terminal 2 and Kőbánya-Kispest metro station. At night, the route is extended to Határ út station. BKK single tickets, multi-day travelcards or passes are required for travel. (Please note that the airport shuttle bus single ticket is not accepted!) Hungary Passes and Pest County Passes are also accepted.
Timetable:
At night (on weekdays from about 23:00 until 4:00 in the morning and at weekends from midnight until 4:00 in the morning), bus 200E operates to Határ út stop, from where night bus lines 914, 914A, 950 and 950A will take you to the city centre.
Key stops of bus line 200E:
Use the Budapest Pay&GO service on the 100E Airport Express, which allows you to quickly and easily purchase and validate your airport shuttle bus single ticket on the bus with a bankcard, using the on-board device.
In addition, 100E Airport Express tickets and most BKK tickets and passes are now available digitally in the BudapestGO app and other mobile apps.
Single tickets and airport shuttle bus single tickets are valid for one ride, without any trip interruption or transfer. The metro network is an exception in terms of ticket validation: there is no need to validate a new ticket when transferring between metro lines.
You need to validate your single tickets at the start of your journey.
Paper tickets: use a validating machine on board the vehicles or by metro station entrances - it will stamp a code on the ticket or punch a hole.
Digital tickets: scan the validation code stickers, which you will find at the entrance to the metro stations on the side of the paper-ticket validators and outside by the doors on the vehicles in street-level transport.
Time-based tickets (30 or 90 minutes), which are available only digitally, must always be validated when you board a different vehicle.
Daily travelcards and passes: they are valid for an unlimited number of a trips during the validity period, and are non-transferable. No validation required. If you are using the digital versions and you are about to travel on a service where boarding is possible only at the front door, or if control staff are on duty at the metro station, you need to scan the code to display the animated graphic that confirms you have a valid fare product.
For the 100E Airport Express, it's easiest to buy your ticket on the bus and validate it with a bankcard in the same transaction through the BudapestPay&Go device.
Several types of public transport tickets and passes are available for purchase at the BKK customer service centres at Terminals 2A and 2B, as well as from BKK ticket vending machines near the entry points to the terminals.
Agents at the BKK customer service points provide information on public transport and assistance with journey planning for trips within Budapest.
The airport shuttle bus single ticket can also be purchased in the BudapestGO app.
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BKK ticket vending machines feature a menu system in English and German, in addition to Hungarian.
The closest train station to Budapest Airport Terminal 2 is Ferihegy, with trains operating to and from the Nyugati railway station in Budapest. With the connections operating to the Nyugati railway station, it takes 30 minutes to reach the Budapest city centre. For certain trains, you need to buy a supplementary ticket. Information on this can be found on the website of MÁV-Start Hungarian State Railways.
From the Ferihegy train station, Terminal 2 is accessible by bus number 200E. You can find more information here.
Source: Bud.hu, Wikipedia.hu
Photo: Bud.hu
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