Budapest with WizzAir
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 10:13 am
Quick report on my recent trip to Budapest. I was travelling with my daughter who is cabin crew with Jet2 so I left all the travel arrangements and most of the plans for our 2 day trip to her. She gets a free staff parking and she gets a discount for Priority Lane security and the lounge so we did that and settled in the Upper Deck. It was well worth the money but at 6am even I couldn’t manage all 4 of the included alcoholic drinks. She had more good ideas. We had booked the row in front of the over wing exits and knew those remained unbooked so upon boarding she gave bags of sweets to the crew (as is custom between cabin crew travellers) and asked if we could take those seats. Of course we could because they gave to get someone to sit there in case of evacuation. So we had 3 seats between the 2 of us and loads of leg room. The A320 was full except for 3 seats in row 1 and these exit seats and the pax were a multi cultural mix of what looked liked two way city break types, VRF types and people travelling for business reasons.
Our flight was operated by Avion Express and the crew were delightfully cheerful and friendly. They offered us free bottles of water after boarding and coffee during service. They asked us if we could change a tenner so they could give someone the right chance.
So that was all great and we landed early into a warm and sunny Budapest.
Our enthusiasts would like the look of an aviation museum which we could see from the road beside the airport which housed a load of Soviet-era Malev aircraft including ones I knew were TU-134, TU-154, IL-18, YAK-42 and many more. Maybe next time I’ll make time for that.
Our return flight was very early so we arranged an Uber from our hotel before 3am. Our GLA flight was only the second departure of the day but the airport was already very busy at that time.
It was a Wizz Air A321 Neo on the way back and it was literally 100% full so the route looks to be a good one for Wizz. Being so early I just slept from boarding until descent so never interacted with the crew at all. We landed early and hot footed it on the long stay bus to the staff car park and hit the road, being in the house just before 9am. In a way it’s quite good travelling during the night as I had plenty to do once I got home
Our flight was operated by Avion Express and the crew were delightfully cheerful and friendly. They offered us free bottles of water after boarding and coffee during service. They asked us if we could change a tenner so they could give someone the right chance.
So that was all great and we landed early into a warm and sunny Budapest.
Our enthusiasts would like the look of an aviation museum which we could see from the road beside the airport which housed a load of Soviet-era Malev aircraft including ones I knew were TU-134, TU-154, IL-18, YAK-42 and many more. Maybe next time I’ll make time for that.
Our return flight was very early so we arranged an Uber from our hotel before 3am. Our GLA flight was only the second departure of the day but the airport was already very busy at that time.
It was a Wizz Air A321 Neo on the way back and it was literally 100% full so the route looks to be a good one for Wizz. Being so early I just slept from boarding until descent so never interacted with the crew at all. We landed early and hot footed it on the long stay bus to the staff car park and hit the road, being in the house just before 9am. In a way it’s quite good travelling during the night as I had plenty to do once I got home
