Budapest Airport Ready For Travel Without Passports

Budapest's Ferihegy Airport has announced that it is now ready to handle passengers from the Schengen zone, and that passengers arriving on flights from within the main body of the EU will not need to show their passports as of March 2008.

Hungary joined the Schengen zone in December last year, meaning that border crossings with neighbours Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia will be removed, allowing for the complete free movement of peoples. On the flipside inspection was strengthened along the Serbian, Croatian, Romanian and Ukrainian borders, which are now the EUs external frontiers for visa entry purposes.

Passengers arriving from the UK and Ireland will also still be forced to go through the rigmarole of passport control so don't get carried away and leave your documents at home just yet.