Annual Monitoring Report 2025 - Hungary

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Contextual information

National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2025/1050 of 19 May 2025

List of ACCs   1

Budapest ACC



No of airports in the scope of the performance plan

≥80’K     1
<80’K      0

Exchange rate (1 EUR=) 

2022: 390.405 HUF
2025: 397.388 HUF

Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2025  3.2%

Share of Union-wide en route costs 2025  1.7%

Share en route / terminal costs 2025  83% / 17%

En route charging zone(s)

Hungary

Terminal charging zone(s)

Hungary

Main ANSP 

• HungaroControl

Other ANSPs 

–

MET Providers 

• HungaroMet (Meteorological Service)

Traffic (En route traffic zone)

  • Hungary recorded 1,198K actual IFR movements in 2025, +8.9% compared to 2024 (1,100K).

  • Actual 2025 IFR movements were +7.9% above the plan (1,111K).

  • Actual 2025 IFR movements were +34.4% above the actual 2019 level (892K).


  • Hungary recorded 4,371K actual service units in 2025, +12.3% compared to 2024 (3,892K).

  • Actual 2025 service units were +9.5% above the plan (3,993K).

  • Actual 2025 service units are +38.2% above the actual 2019 level (3,162K).

Safety (Main ANSP)

  • In 2025, HungaroControl achieved the planned maturity levels set out in its performance plan for all five components of the EoSM.

  • The rate of runway incursions (RI) was 1.45 and equal to the RIs with ANS contribution, with the former indicator below the Union-wide average while the latter above. The rate of runway incursions at both levels has increased compared to 2024, when Hungary reported 0 RIs.

  • The rate of separation minima infringements (SMI) was 2.00 at State level and equal to the SMIs at ANSP level, with both indicators below Union-wide average. The rates of SMIs was stable compared to 2024.

Environment (Member State)

  • Hungary registered a KEA performance of 2.10% compared to its target of 2.10% and contributed positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.

  • KEP and KES improved marginally in comparison with 2024.

  • The average time in level flight during descent remained stable and during climb deteriorated (from 47.9s in 2024 to 52.6s in 2025).

  • VFE of the actual trajectory was 77.47%, which was better than the Union-wide average.

  • Additional taxi-out time was 2.53 min/flight and additional taxi-in time was 1.31 min/flight, and both remained stable compared to 2024.

  • Additional time in the arrival sequencing and metering area deteriorated marginally from 2.21 min/flight in 2024 to 2.30 min/flight in 2025.

Capacity (Member State)


  • Hungary registered 0.55 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2025, which has been adjusted to 0.58 during the post-ops adjustment process, thus achieving the local target value of 0.85. Delays in Hungary decreased by -2.17 minutes per flight year-on-year.

  • Delays were highest in July, August and September, driven by a combination of ATC capacity, weather and other non-ATC causes.

  • The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Hungary decreased by -9 percentage points compared to 2024.

  • The number of ATCOs in OPS was 117 being below the 2025 plan in Budapest ACC by -14 FTE.

  • The yearly total of sector opening hours in Budapest ACC was 36,288, showing a 4% increase compared to 2024.

  • Budapest ACC registered 31.83 IFR movements per sector opening hour in 2025, an increase of 5%.

  • Hungary registered an average airport arrival ATFM delay of 0.04 minutes per flight in 2025, thus achieving the local target of 0.1 minutes. Compared to 2024, average arrival ATFM delays in Hungary were 0.04 minutes per flight higher in 2025.

Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))



  • The en route 2025 actual unit cost of Hungary was 28.24€2022, -8.4% lower than the determined unit cost (30.81€2022). The terminal 2025 actual unit cost was 256.88€2022, -9.4% lower than the determined unit cost (283.49€2022).

  • The en route 2025 actual service units (4.4M) were +9.5% higher than the determined service units (4.0M).

  • The en route 2025 actual total costs were slightly higher than determined (+0.4M€2022, or+0.3%). This is entirely driven by higher staff costs, as all other cost categories registered lower costs than planned. Staff costs for HungaroControl were +4.9M€2022 higher than planned (+9.2%). The NSA explained this increase by higher-than-planned personnel expenditure related to measures for increasing capacity and pay rises reflecting inflation.

  • A deviation from the criteria to achieve capacity targets was considered justified for Hungary. Actual costs for the measures necessary to achieve those targets were lower than determined (-0.8M€2022, or -11.7%), mainly due to lower other operating costs (-0.7M€2022, or -18.9%) than planned.

  • HungaroControl spent 33.1M€2022 in 2025 related to costs of investments for both en route and terminal charging zones, -11.9% less than determined (37.5M€2022). The NSA explained that this reduction is mainly due to postponed investments and delayed developments.

  • The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2025 was 32.66€ (-8.4% below the 2025 DUC), while the terminal actual unit cost incurred by users was 277.22€ (-13.7% below the 2025 DUC). The difference between the AUCU and the DUC for both terminal and en route charging zones is mainly driven by the traffic risk sharing adjustment.