BAA Plc`s Budapest Airport reported its busiest month ever in July as more people arrived on incoming flights. Some 920,590 passengers were recorded at the airport in the month. The figure represents a 4.9% increase, or 43,245 more travelers, compared with a year ago, the company said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. For the 12 months to July 2006, total passenger traffic reached 8.196 million a 10.3% rise over the same period last year.Traffic at Budapest`s Ferihegy International Airport surged after budget carriers including Wizz Air Ltd. and EasyJet Plc began flying to Hungary following the country`s European Union entry in May 2004. In July 2006, the number of air transport movements decreased by 0.4%, to 11,891 movements, compared with the same period last year. In the 12 months to July 2006, Ferihegy handled 127,151 air transport movements, a rise of 2.3% on the previous 12-month period. `Budapest Airport is having a record summer, with strong growth in the number of passengers travelling through Ferihegy. This is fantastic news for Hungary`s tourist industry, because many more overseas passengers are travelling to Hungary for leisure than Hungarian residents are travelling abroad` CEO Stewart Wingate said in the statement. BAA, the world`s largest airport operator, operates seven UK airports and others in Italy and Australia. (Bloomberg, portfolio.hu)

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