“The airport of Debrecen is ready to handle annual passenger traffic of 300.000 and to receive additional scheduled flights.” –mayor Lajos Kósa said at a press conference held last Friday.
Answering the question of MTI, the mayor confirmed that negotiations are going on with Lufthansa about starting flights between Debrecen and Munich and also, with Chinese partners about flights between Debrecen and a Chinese city. He added that the current passenger traffic of 30.000 is expected to grow to 80.000 due to the Debrecen-London, Luton Wizz Air flights to be launched on 18 June this year.