GEN 1.3  ENTRY, TRANSIT AND DEPARTURE OF PASSENGERS AND CREW

1.   Customs Regulations

1.1.  Baggages and articles belonging to embarking and disembarking passengers will be subjected to customs control.
1.2.  Baggages and articles belonging to embarking and disembarking passengers will be cleared on the basis of oral declaration.
1.3.  If the flight crew and their belongings will not leave the aerodrome or they stay at the transit area only, they need not report for entry/exit check at the customs office.
1.4.  In the case when flight crew members are going to enter the territory of the State, they shall proceed via the green or red corridor at the customs entry area, as appropriate for declaring the carried goods.

2.   Immigration requirements

2.1.  Passengers shall be allowed into and out of Hungary by the organs of frontier forces, provided that the passengers are in possession of proper and authorized passports or travel documents.
2.2.  Every passenger entering or departing from Hungary shall have a valid passport or travel document and valid visa, provided bilateral agreements concluded with Hungary do not specify otherwise. Visa may be obtained on arrival at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport only by the organs of frontier guard against payment in USD or the equivalent in other convertible currencies, except the passengers disposing of diplomatic or service passport and nationals of those states concerning of which official procedure otherwise provides. The expenses resulting from the refusal of visa shall be imposed on the passengers or on the airline transporting them (cost of return flight, etc.)
2.3.  Passengers in transit who will not leave the transit area of the international airport shall keep valid travel documents all the time but no visa will be required from them, provided that:
  • the passengers continue their trip to a third country by the same or first connecting flight; and
  • the passengers are in possession of documents giving the right to enter the country of destination.
2.4.  For staying in Hungary the passengers shall have valid travel document, appropriate financial cover and shall disclose of the possibility to continue the journey or to return home (visa, tickets or it's financial cover). According to the legal prescriptions, if the passengers do not dispose of these conditions the permission of their entry, transit or staying may be denied.
2.5.  If passengers are carried to Hungary by a foreign flight contrary to the requirements referred to in paragraphs 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 the air carrier shall be responsible for returning them from Hungary to the point where they commenced the use of the operator's aircraft.
2.6.  When buying air tickets passengers shall present - on request - their travel documents for control purposes. The air tickets will be issued if the passengers are already in possession of the visas of destination and transit, appropriate to the itinerary of the flight, or if the regulations of the countries concerned do not restrict the collection of visa at the airport of disembarkation.
2.7.  Entry and departure from Hungary of foreign aircraft crew members shall be regulated by the general requirements referred to in 2.2 unless the bilateral agreements concluded with the competent authorities of Hungary specify otherwise.

3.   Public health regulations

3.1.  At present no vaccination certificate is required on arrival from passengers coming from any foreign country.

4.   Security regulations

4.1.  Before embarkation passengers must hand over to the carrier's designated employees all materials which are considered dangerous to the safety of air transportation, namely arms, explosives, ammunition, corrosives, radioactive materials, easy inflammable articles and these must comply with the inspection measures of the carrier or officers of airports security control, contusing to the verification that the above stated articles are not transported. The carrier is competent to decide whether these materials will be transported.
4.2.  For the sake of the safety of air traffic, passengers are obliged to subject themselves to a security control. This can be effected with aid of technical equipment (X-ray examination of baggages, magnetic gates) but it can be made by manual control too.