As of November 2013, low-cost carrier Jet2.com is to launch a new flight to the heart of the Midlands, East Midlands airport. The flight will be operated twice a week, on Monday and Friday, connecting Budapest and the largest airport of the Midlands region with easy access to three big cities: Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester. This important destination has been missing from the route network of Budapest Airport for a long time.
It is good news primarily for those who work abroad that from the autumn onwards the Midlands will be directly accessible from Budapest. Low-cost carrier Jet2.com launches a flight to connect the Hungarian capital with East Midlands airport twice a week from 8 November. Ideally for long-weekend trips, the flight is scheduled to depart from Budapest at 18:40 on Friday and will arrive at East Midlands at 21:35, and on the return leg it will depart at 15:00 to arrive in Budapest at 17:55. According to the plans, Jet2.com will use a 148-seat Boeing 737-300 aircraft on this route.
CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays Steve Heapy highlighted “We are excited about the launch of this new flight, as Jet2.com will be the only carrier to offer a direct link between Budapest – quite a popular destination with passengers – and the Midlands region.” He added, “The new route is to be launched to meet the express demand of our passengers, and therefore we are positive that it will become successful in spite of a winter launch.”
“We are pleased with the decision of Jet2.com to launch a flight from one of the fast-growing airports of the Midlands to Budapest,” said Budapest Airport aviation director Kam Jandu, adding that “The new flight may not only have a positive effect on the economy of the region but it will also provide a much closer link for Budapest with the Midlands.”
The East Midlands is one of the nine regions of the United Kingdom, featuring both countryside and urban environments with picturesque traditional villages and cities, homes of the aristocracy, and industrial areas. The airport of East Midlands is located in the western corner of the region, in the heart of England. Interestingly, it is connected to three major cities in the vicinity: it is situated in the county of Leicester (the city just south of it), its postal address and phone numbers are listed by the city of Derby to the north-west, while IATA links it with Nottingham. Out of the three cities, Nottingham may be the best known, mainly due to the legend of Robin Hood. As the story goes, Robin Hood lived with his buddies in Sherwood Forest nearby, fighting against their chief enemy, the Judge of Nottingham.
Leeds-based low-cost carrier Jet2.com launched its first flight between the Hungarian capital and Manchester back in 2004, initially with three flights per week. In the summer of 2010, flight frequency was up to 5 per week, and subsequently the city of Edinburgh was also added to the Budapest network. For some time, a Leeds flight was also operated to and from Budapest. The fleet of Jet2.com consists of thirty-five Boeing 737 and eleven Boeing 757 aircraft.
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