On occasional basis company One Air flies from Hongkong to Budapest, their B747-400 in yellow variant of paint scheme appeared on 29 January 2025, unfortunately shortly before sunset and moreover with sun dimmed by white clouds on the Western horizon.
B747-400s of Fly Meta are also irregular visitors to Budapest, transporting cargo from China. This aircraft was transferred from China Airlines and departed exceptionally from RWY 31R, which is used for landing traffic.
The latest addition to the fleet of Georgian airline Geosky, this Boeing 767-300F registration 4L-GEL, joined the pre-Xmas air cargo bridge from China to Budapest, while their B757-200F already switched operations to Debrecen.
The sole Boeing 757-200 of Georgian airline Geosky received modified colours and after a longer time it started to appear again in Budapest on cargo flights from China.
YTO Cargo Airlines already operates to Budapest for some time, but only on 09 November 2024 the flight was finally performed during daylight and moreover in nice weather.
On 09 November 2024 this Boeing 737-800 of Ukrainian company Supernova Airlines arrived at Budapest after it spent several months in Siauliai in Lithuania.
Among mostly white and for spotters totally unattractive summer leases this A320 of Cambodian airline Sky Angkor Airlines stands out as one of a few. It was leased in for the summer season by Egyptian Nile Air and the aircraft itself carries the colours of bankrupt Brazilian airline ITA Transportes Aéreos, however it was not taken up by them.
Wizz Air Hungary is official partner of Hungarian olympics and paralympics 2024, however the games are coming to an end, so it was time to visit Budapest before the special scheme on this A321neo will disappear again.
Although B747-400F of SF Airlines is definitely more beautiful in their full colours, the first landing of this incomplete colour scheme on the new arrival to the fleet motivated me to visit Budapest for a few hours on 17 June 2024.
This Boeing 747-400F of Compass Air Cargo arrived for the first time on 14 October 2023 in the last rays of light to Budapest on a Qatar Airways cargo flight.