Budapest Transport Company plans to offload luxury buses

Budapest Transport Company (BKV) wishes to offload its fleet of luxury Volvo buses, designed for longer trips than those required by urban transport, but it must wait for the two-years remaining on the leasing contract to expire first.

The buses were purchased by the former management of BKV who used them for their trips, communication deputy manager Miklós Regőczi told Népszabadság. The current management would sell them but as the leasing contract does not allow this, they rent them out for at least 170 kilometre trips for at least Ft 40,000 (€160), Ft 230 per kilometre, or Ft 8,000 per hour. From early spring and late autumn, there is high demand for air-conditioned luxury buses, but out of the tourism season they are mostly used by BKV employees.

However, BKV does not have the funds to purchase new buses to transport passengers, so the company is attempting to secure 60 used four and five year-old low-floor articulated buses. The average age of buses is 15 years and around 18 percent are older than 20 years.

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