When starting planning to planning Budapest,few questions coming to your mind would be How many airports are there? Are there multiple airports in Budapest? How many airports in Budapest are operational? Which Budapest airport terminal your flight will land?
There are currently 2 operational airports in 2024. One is used by international flights while the other one is used for private jets or people learning to fly a plane. There is a 3rd one as well,but that is not operational since 2012.
Out of the 2 operational airports in Budapest, the first one is Liszt Ferenc Airport.It is frequently used for commercial flights,as this is the only one where all international flights arrive and fly. As a Budapest traveler, you should think about only Liszt Ferenc international airport when coming from any other country. It is located around 20 KM away from the Budapest city center and it takes around 45 mins by 100E to reach the city center.
Although you may have seen on internet about terminal 1 and terminal 2 for Budapest airport. Terminal 1 is basically the older airport which is not operational, while the current operational airport is named with Terminal 2,with further divisions as Terminal 2A and 2B.i.e. Terminal 2A and Terminal 2B are adjacent to each other.
The second operational airport around Budapest is Hármashatárhegy Airport, however, it is worth noting as a visitor that it is only used for private planes,learning and practicing activities.
If you are coming to Budapest with WizzAir,RyanAir,Qatar Airways,KLM or any other international airline, neither of these will land on this airport.
So, it should be none of your business to think about this airport.
