4% more passengers for Malev on Bucharest-Budapest route

Hungary’s Malev, a top five regular airline in Romania, transported 30,000 passengers in the first three months of this year on the Bucharest-Budapest route, up 4% from a year ago. “Aircraft load factor came close to 50% in the first quarter, 2% higher from the same period of last year. Our figures were better in the first three months of this year,” said Adam Hegedus, head of corporate communications with Malev. The Hungarian airline has four daily flights on the Bucharest-Budapest route, two flights per day on Cluj-Napoca-Budapest and a daily flight on Targu-Mures-Budapest route. The company gave up flights to Timisoara and Iasi as they were not profitable. Hegedus did not specify how many passengers were transported on these routes. Malev’s first-quarter revenues may amount to some 3.6m euros on Bucharest-Budapest route, according to ZF estimates taking into account the number of passengers reported by the company and an average price of 120 euros per ticket.