Originally Posted by MAH4546

The local market on MIA-BUD is actually large enough (Budapest's third largest trans-Atlantic market after NYC and Toronto; probably because there is a large Hungarian community in Fort Lauderdale/Hallandale and the popularity of South Florida as a vacation destination for wealthy Eastern Europeans), that a 2-3w service, combined with the feed on both ends, is probably feasible. But that is still a good 4-5 years away. Let AA/MA develop Budapest as a better Central European hub, first, and ORD/MIA could feasibly join JFK in the much more distant future.