A passenger plane taking off from Shenzhen in southern China landed at the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport on Friday, marking the inaugural flight of Hainan Airlines’ new direct route between Shenzhen and Budapest.
“With the launch of the Hainan Airlines’ Shenzhen-Budapest direct flight route, the number of direct flights between Budapest and major Chinese cities has increased to seven, and the number of direct passenger flights between China and Hungary has reached 21 per week,” Gong Tao, Chinese ambassador to Hungary, said at the launching ceremony.
Gong emphasized that the increase in direct flights between China and Hungary will further enhance people-to-people exchanges, and facilitate economic, trade, and cultural cooperation between the two countries. He said this development is another important achievement in China-Hungary relations.
Ferenc Antal, the deputy state secretary for Strategic Transactions at the Hungarian Ministry for National Economy, described the route as “a new milestone in the qualitative development of the relationship between the two countries.” https://english.news.cn/20240802/74d139a7d31a49c79ce13dab979cf40e/c.html