Hungarian World Airways (Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD)) is a new start-up planning to launch operations from Budapest as a full service carrier with the aim to replace Malev (MA, Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD)). It plans to initially lease five A320-200s and is considering adding A340-300s for long-haul services at a later stage.

Adria Airways (JP, Ljubljana Joze Pucnik (LJU)) and Air Baltic (BT, Riga International (RIX)) will both be faced with an investigation the European Commission has launched on November 20 to review if capital increases and loans provided by the Slovenian and Latvian governments between 2007 and 2011 can be considered as legal state aid under European Union legislation. The Commission will now check if private investors would have possibly made similar decisions in such situations. The European Commission can order the financially struggling airlines to pay back the state aid received if it considers the payments from the governments to the national carriers as illegal. It has previously done so in the cases of Malev (MA, Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD)) and Spanair (JK, Barcelona El Prat International (BCN)).

Wizz Air (W6, Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD)) has been allocated traffic rights from Hungary to both Russia and Turkey allowing the low-cost carrier to take over routes previously served by Malev (MA, Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD)). Wizz is expected to announce flights from Budapest to Antalya (AYT), Istanbul and Moscow once the change in the bilateral air traffic agreements has been agreed to by the two other countries. Wizz Air does not currently serve any of the three cities but subsidiary Wizz Air Ukraine (WU, Kiev Zhulyany (IEV)) operates seasonal services between Kiev Zhulyany (IEV) and Antalya.

Wideroe (WF, Bodø (BOO)) has announced that it will acquire three additional Dash 8-400s from parent SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK, Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH)). Two of the three aircraft have previously been operating for Malev (MA, Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD)). Wideroe currently already operates eight Dash 8-400s on domestic routes in Norway as well as international services to Aberdeen International (ABZ), Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH) and Newcastle (NCL).

Wizz Air (W6, Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD)) has been assigned traffic rights previously allocated to bankrupt Hungarian national carrier Malev (MA, Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD)) allowing it to launch two new routes from its Budapest homebase. Starting December 6, Wizz will operate three weekly services from Budapest to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion (TLV) followed by a three times weekly flight to Kiev Zhulyany (IEV) from December 14.