Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc International Airport is “in top form”, with a nearly 20 percent increase in passenger transport and 50 percent increase in cargo registered in the first eight months of this year compared with the same period of last year, Mate Loga, a national economy ministry official and head of the Budapest Airport board of directors said on Sunday.

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