"Aeropark Aeropark is an open-air aviation museum next to Ferenc Liszt International Airport, Budapest, Hungary. It is dedicated to the history of Hungarian civil aviation, featuring almost all aircraft types used by the now-defunct national airline Malév. Aeropark also has a flight simulator for visitors and a gift shop with plane models and various Malév-memorabilia. Most of the planes of Aeropark are accessible for visitors with wheelchairs. Aeropark is a regular participant in the annual event Long Night of Museums. The history of Aeropark (originally Ferihegy Aircraft Park; Ferenc Liszt Airport was named Ferihegy International Airport then) goes back to"
"Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport () , formerly known as ""Budapest Ferihegy International Airport"" and still commonly called just Ferihegy, is the international airport serving the Hungarian capital city of Budapest, and by far the largest of the country's four commercial airports. The airport is located southeast of the center of Budapest (bordering Pest county) and was renamed in 2011 in honour of the most famous Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferenc, in Hungarian) on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth. It offers international connections primarily within Europe, but also to Africa,"
"Airlines, and Transadriatica. The need for the replacement of Budaörs by a larger airport had been clear since 1939. Hills surrounding Budaörs Airport, a lack of room for expansion, and the need for longer, hard runways led the development of what would become Budapest Ferihegy International Airport. Ferihegy was ready in 1943, but bombing during World War 2 caused extensive damage to it. As Budaörs had survived the war relatively intact, it continued its service as the primary international airport until repairs at Ferihegy were completed. Ferihegy was reopened on 7 May 1950, and a Lisunov Li-2 flew in from"
"to over 60, mostly European cities, but ceased operations in 2012. Low-budget airline WizzAir is based in Hungary, at Ferihegy. Hungary's population was 9,937,628 according to the 2011 census, making it the fifth most populous country in Central and Eastern Europe and medium-sized member state of the European Union. Population density stands at 107 inhabitants per square kilometre, which is about two times higher than the world average. More than one quarter of the population lived in the Budapest metropolitan area, 6,903,858 people (69.5%) in cities and towns overall. Like most other European countries, Hungary is experiencing sub-replacement fertility; its"
"of these routes touch Budapest. There are five international, four domestic, four military and several non-public airports in Hungary. The largest airport is the Budapest Ferihegy International Airport (BUD) located at the southeastern border of Budapest. In 2008, the airport had 3,866,452 arriving and 3,970,951 departing passengers. In 2006, the Hungarian railroad system was 7685 km long, 2791 km of it electrified. Electricity is available in every settlement in Hungary. Piped gas is available in 2873 settlements, 91.1% of all of them. To avoid gas shortages due to Ukrainian pipeline shutdowns like the one in January 2009, Hungary participates both"
"network of low-cost carriers, the airport was not only able to survive but to grow in a way that was unprecedented in the region. In 2018 LOT Polish Airlines made Budapest their first hub outside Poland, with flights to New York–JFK, Chicago–O'Hare, Kraków and London City Airport. Nowadays, the Budapest hub of Wizz Air is the largest of all with more 60 destinations worldwide. By the end of 2018, the airport hopes to reach 15 million passengers a year that would nearly be twice as much as in 2013. Originally called Budapest Ferihegy International Airport (""Budapest Ferihegy Nemzetközi Repülőtér""), on"
"the two terminals serving 4 million passengers a year promised to be insufficient. The construction of Terminal 2B was started in 1997. The new building, with more than 30,000 square meters of space, together with a new apron, was opened in 1998, with all foreign airlines moving there. Terminal 2B can receive 3.5 million passengers a year, with its seven gates and five remote stands. On 8 December 2005, a 75% stake in Ferihegy Airport was bought by BAA plc for 464.5 billion HUF (approx. 2.1 billion USD), including the right of operation for 75 years. On 20 October 2006,"
"by Farnair Switzerland. On 4 June 2015, ASL Aviation Group, the parent company of Farnair Hungary, announced that Farnair Hungary will be rebranded as ASL Airlines Hungary. The ASL Airlines Hungary fleet includes the following aircraft (as of August 2017): ASL Airlines Hungary ASL Airlines Hungary Kft, formerly ""Farnair Hungary"", is an airline based on the property of Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport in Budapest, Hungary. It operates scheduled express cargo services, ad hoc charter services and relief missions. Its main base is Budapest Ferihegy International Airport. The airline was established and started operations in 1990. It was founded as"
"ASL Airlines Hungary ASL Airlines Hungary Kft, formerly ""Farnair Hungary"", is an airline based on the property of Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport in Budapest, Hungary. It operates scheduled express cargo services, ad hoc charter services and relief missions. Its main base is Budapest Ferihegy International Airport. The airline was established and started operations in 1990. It was founded as NAWA Air Transport, the first privately owned airline in Hungary after World War II. In 1993 it was acquired by Farner Air Transport and was renamed Farner Air Transport Hungary. It became Farnair Hungary in 1997. It is wholly owned"
"in the world; its Line 1 dates from 1896. The system consists of four lines. A commuter rail system, ""HÉV"", operates in the Budapest metropolitan area. Hungary has a total length of approximately motorways (). Motorway sections are being added to the existing network, which already connects many major economically important cities to the capital. The most important port is Budapest. Other important ones include Dunaújváros and Baja. There are five international airports in Hungary: Budapest Liszt Ferenc (informally called ""Ferihegy"" after its previous name), Debrecen, Sármellék (also called Hévíz-Balaton Airport), Győr-Pér, and Pécs-Pogány. The national carrier, MALÉV, operated flights"
"reached in under two hours. Debrecen Airport (the second largest in Hungary) has recently undergone modernisation in order to be able to handle more international flights, although almost all flights to and from Hungary still use Budapest's Ferihegy Airport (now called Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport). Cities that can be reached from the Debrecen Airport include Brussels, Eindhoven, London, Malmö, Milan, Tel Aviv, Moscow and Paris. There have also been improvements to some parts of the railway between the capital and Debrecen as part of Hungary's mainly EU-funded National Development Plan for 2004 to 2006. There are many railway stations"
"25 March 2011 it was officially renamed Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, in honor of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt (Modern Hungarian: ""Liszt Ferenc"".) Popularly, the airport is still called Ferihegy as before. Ferihegy is the name of the neighborhood around the airport. The name is derived from that of Ferenc Xavér Mayerffy (1776–1845), the former owner of an estate who established vineyards and contributed to the development of viticulture in Pest-Buda. ""Feri"" is a diminutive form of Ferenc while ""hegy"" means hill. In fact, the area is almost totally flat; but originally there was a 147 m"
"relatively short routes (the distance to most of these cities is between 120 km and 230 km) was necessitated by the fact that motorways and railways suffered great damage during the war. Flights cost around the same as a first-class train ticket. International flights started already in 1947, with the Budapest-Prague route. By the summer of 1954 the airline served 12 domestic airports and started services on the Warsaw, East Berlin and Bucharest routes. In 1950 operations moved to the newly finished Ferihegy International Airport which has been Hungary's main airport ever since then. Budaörs airport is now used for"
"state news agency MTI reports: ) In response, additional security measures were immediately implemented at Budapest Airport causing flight delays at both terminals. Unusually long passenger waiting queues were observed at the busier 2A-B terminal complex's departures area. These problems were solved over time, especially through the opening of the SkyCourt terminal including a central security zone. On 15 November 2010, Budapest Airport regained the ""Schengen Clear""-status, after implementing the necessary security actions and after that, the airport underwent the strict re-inspection. On 16 March 2011, the name of Budapest Ferihegy International Airport was changed to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International"
"Terminal 2, a 24,000-square-meter facility funded with Austrian loans under general contracting. It was used first by Malév aircraft and passengers, and then by those of Lufthansa, Air France, and Swissair. The old terminal continued to receive residual airline traffic under a new name, Terminal 1. There was an IED bus attack against Russian Jewish emigrants on the road leading to Ferihegy in the early 1990s. The perpetrators were members of the German Communist organisation Red Army Faction. In 1993, Malév launched the airport's first Hungarian overseas flight, to New York. According to the traffic figures forecast for the millennium,"
"notable Hungarian composer), one of the busiest airports in Central and Eastern Europe, located east-southeast of the centre of Budapest, in the District XVIII. The airport offers international connections among all major European cities, and also to North America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. As Hungary's busiest airport, it handles nearly all of the country's air passenger traffic. Budapest Liszt Ferenc handled around 250 scheduled flights daily in 2013, and an ever-rising number of charters. London, Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, and Amsterdam are the busiest international connections respectively, while Toronto, Montreal, Dubai, Doha and Alicante are the most unusual"
"Budapest Aircraft Service Budapest Aircraft Service Ltd. or BASe Airlines ( or BASe Kft), is a Hungarian airline based in Budapest, Hungary. BASe Airlines was established in December 1991 by experienced aviation pilots and technicians. The company was based in Budapest, so Budapest-Ferihegy Airport was chosen as the basis for the operations. The flight operations began with two leased LET L-410 and included charter and freight flights. From that moment onwards, scheduled passenger flights to neighboring countries began, such as Austria, Ukraine and Croatia, under the call sign of the former AVIAEXPRESS. Starting in 1992, on behalf of foreign partners,"
"countrywide include Szolnok (the most important railway intersection outside Budapest), Tiszai Railway Station in Miskolc and the stations of Pécs, Győr, Debrecen, Szeged and Székesfehérvár. The only city with an underground railway system is Budapest with its Metro. In Budapest there is also a suburban rail service in and around the city, operated under the name HÉV. There are 43-45 airports in Hungary, including smaller, unpaved airports, too. The five international airports are Budapest-Liszt Ferenc, Debrecen Airport, Hévíz–Balaton International Airport (previously ""Sármellék,"" also called FlyBalaton for its proximity to Lake Balaton, Hungary's number one tourist attraction), Győr-Pér and Pécs-Pogány (as"
"BAA announced intentions to sell its stake in Budapest Airport to a consortium led by the German airport group, HOCHTIEF AirPort GmbH, subject to the consent of the Hungarian State. On 18 April 2007, the renovation of Terminal 1 at Ferihegy was awarded Europe's most prestigious heritage preservation prize, the Europa Nostra award. The designers, contractors, builders and investors (the latter being BA) received the joint award of the European Commission and of the pan-European heritage preservation organisation Europa Nostra for the renovation of the protected monument spaces, the central hall, the gallery and the furniture at T1. On 6"
"started in 2006 with new 54-meter long Siemens Combino Supra giants completely replacing former carriages on the 4-6 line. The underground railway network is less extensive, consisting of four lines. The M1 line (or Földalatti), whose colour is yellow, is a small underground tramway inaugurated in 1896, 120 years before 2016. The other three are full-sized metro lines: M2 (red), M3 (blue) and M4 (green). M2 and M4 run roughly east-west, while M3 runs mostly north-south. There is a plan for a high-speed rail link to Ferihegy BUD international airport, which is currently served by bus from the end of"
"Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Brunei, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar). Currently, Jiangbei airport has three terminals. Terminal 1 is the oldest original terminal and is no longer in use. Terminal 2 is a larger building split into Halls A and B serving domestic flights. The"
"737-200 HA-LEW was stored in 2011 and having completed its post-overhaul test flight on April 24, 2014, has been sold to Nolinor Aviation of Canada. CityLine Hungary CityLine Hungary Ltd. is a Hungarian charter airline based at Budapest Ferihegy International Airport. The airline has its headquarters in Vecsés, Hungary. The airline was founded in March 2003 with the aim of providing cargo operations to European, African and CIS countries with two Antonov An-26B aircraft. In 2009, the airline began operating passenger flights from Milan-Malpensa Airport in Italy to holiday destinations with a Boeing 737-200 aircraft. CityLine Hungary employed 120+ employees"
"CityLine Hungary CityLine Hungary Ltd. is a Hungarian charter airline based at Budapest Ferihegy International Airport. The airline has its headquarters in Vecsés, Hungary. The airline was founded in March 2003 with the aim of providing cargo operations to European, African and CIS countries with two Antonov An-26B aircraft. In 2009, the airline began operating passenger flights from Milan-Malpensa Airport in Italy to holiday destinations with a Boeing 737-200 aircraft. CityLine Hungary employed 120+ employees in May 2010. CityLine Hungary has the following subsidiaries (at May 2010): The CityLine Hungary fleet consists of the following aircraft (at March 2018): Boeing"
"Budaörs to mark the occasion. All international services transferred from Budaörs shortly afterwards, and recreational flying and parachuting activities which had gone on at Ferihegy moved to Budaörs. Budaörs is now an active general aviation airport, with many light aircraft and gliders based there. It is home of several recreational- and flight training businesses, as well as of the Goldtimer Foundation, which restores and regularly gives passenger rides on its vintage aircraft, like the Lisunov Li-2, Polikarpov Po-2, Rubik R-18 Kánya and the Rubik R-11 Cimbora. Budaörs Airport Budaörs Airport (), is an airport located to the south-west of Budapest,"
"February 23, 1988 when Hungary received an Ilyushin Il-14T aircraft from the Soviet army, to be exhibited. István Veress, director general of the Hungarian Technical and Transportation Museum and Tamás Erdei, head of Aviation and Airport Directorate (LRI), announced the foundation of an aircraft museum. The three planes of the museum, the Il-14, an Ilyushin Il-18 and a Tupolev Tu-134 were originally placed in the airport proper, next to Malév's hangar. Ferihegy Aircraft Park opened in 1991 in a new place, between runway 31L and the 2B terminal building; the three planes were towed to their new places in October,"
"of 2015. there are no regular passenger flights from Győr-Pér and Pécs-Pogány). Malév Hungarian Airlines ceased operations in 2012. Total: 20 (1999 est.) Total: 27 (1999 est.) List of airports in Hungary; The following are the largest airports in Hungary (In descending order for 2015): Hungary has five heliports. 1,373 km permanently navigable (1997) The most important port is Budapest, the capital. Other important ones include Dunaújváros and Baja. Ports on the Danube: Ports on the Tisza: In the rest of the cities and towns local transport is provided by Volánbusz companies that also provide intercity bus lines. The Budapest"
"Budaörs Airport Budaörs Airport (), is an airport located to the south-west of Budapest, Hungary. Now serving general aviation, it was once Hungary's only international airport. Until the opening of Budaörs, Budapest's main airport was Mátyásföld Airfield (), east of Budapest. This was a very small airfield, and a replacement was established at Budaörs, at the south-western limit of Budapest's city boundary. Half of the airfield is within the city boundary, and half in Budaörs, in Pest County. Planning for the airport started in 1935, and in 1936 design competitions for the terminal and main hangar were held. Construction started"
"is especially important due to the presence of the Danube bridge which provides a link between the Southern Great Plain and the Transdanubian region. The city has the best-equipped port in the country, where further development possibilities await the investors. At present a 120 places ro-ro port terminal is under construction. The only airport in the county, in Kecskemét, is a military one, chiefly used for the delivery of goods and occasionally for receiving civil aircraft. However, the county can be reached from the nearby Ferihegy Airport of Budapest in less than an hour. The county is governed by the"
"around 100 hours in the air. Later the same year, Bánhidi made a flight from Hungary through northern Europe to England and back to Hungary, his route taking him from Debrecen to Rapla, Helsingfors, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Croydon, and then non-stop back to Debrecen. This final leg of the flight covered 1,640 km, a considerable achievement in a light aircraft at the time. A flying replica of the Gerle 13 was built in 1988. A flying replica of the Gerle 12, HA-AAE, has been built at Budaors Airport, Budapest, by Goldtimer Aviation. The first test flight took place, successfully, on December"
"parts of the world, especially in Austria, the United States, Malta, Argentina, Britain, Jamaica, Micronesia, Ethiopia, Netherlands, Italy, Equatorial Guinea, Monaco, Turkey, Faroe Islands, Brazil, Denmark, Sweden, Philippines, Fiji, Dominica, Iceland, Nauru, Greenland, Liechtenstein, Canada, Germany, Portugal, New Zealand, Zaire, Latvia, Ireland, Spain, Sri Lanka, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Lebanon, Japan, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Luxembourg, Bangladesh, Tuvalu, Andorra, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Oman, Venezuela, Mexico, Gibraltar, Poland, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Israel, Greece, Outer Mongolia, Mozambique, Bahamas, Mali, El Salvador, Botswana, Algeria, Laos, Yemen, Bulgaria, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, North Korea, Baltic States, Thailand, Swaziland, India, Hong Kong, Romania, Zimbabwe, Vatican City, Ukraine,"
"licensed Soviet version of Douglas DC-3) and five 3-seat Po-2 plane which carried air mail. Its base was Budaörs Airport, the pre-war international airport of the country (Ferihegy airport had already been under construction but suffered severe damages during the war). Domestic flights started on October 15, 1946 from Budapest to Szombathely and Debrecen; flights to Szeged and Győr started the same year. The airline had 1864 passengers in the short period between October 15 and the end of the year. In 1947 the airline received another four Li-2 aircraft, followed by two in 1948, finally in 1952 another Li-2,"
"The direction of the airport is shown by traffic signs in the village of Pér. Ground travel times to nearby major cities depend on the density of traffic, and are approximately the following: Győr-Pér International Airport Győr-Pér Airport () is a public commercial airport near Győr, Hungary. Győr-Pér Airport Development Ltd. was founded in 1994 with the aim of utilizing a former military grass airfield and development to an international regional airport. The airport is currently operated by Győr-Pér Airport Ltd. Negotiations have taken place with Wizzair on new routes in 2014, however no flights materialized. Effective May 2016, there"
"Békés Airport Békés Airport is a civilian airport located east of the centre of Békéscsaba in Hungary and is named after the Békés County. The airport was developed in the wake of World War II as a result of military needs for an airfield, although the region did already have air access through the Szentesi airfield. It received the first aircraft in 1943. The 12th FAI World Aerobatic Championships were held at the airport where Peter Besenyei achieved excellent results. In 2006 the airport underwent substantial modernization which included paving of the main runway and taxi ways and modern lighting."