Malév

MALÉV Hungarian Airlines
IATA code :	MA
ICAO code :	MAH
Call sign :	MALEV
Founding:	1946
Operation stopped:	2012
Seat:	Budapest , Hungary
Turnstile :	Budapest Liszt Ferenc
Home airport :	Budapest-Ferihegy
Company form:	Corporation
Number of employees:	2,975 (2006)
Sales:	$ 690 million (2006)
Passenger volume:	3.0 million (2006)
Alliance :	oneworld
Frequent Flyer Program :	Duna Club
Fleet size:	22 (+ 19 orders)
Aims:	National and international
MALÉV Hungarian Airlines ceased operations in 2012. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

MALÉV Hungarian Airlines , Hungarian Ma gyar Lé giközlekedési V állalat was the flag carrier of Hungary based in the capital Budapest . Her home base was the Budapest Liszt Ferenc Airport . She was a member of the oneworld aviation alliance . MALÉV had to cease operations on February 3, 2012 for economic reasons.

history

On July 4, 1918, a regular postal service was opened in Hungary, and in 1920 the first Hungarian airline Maefort was founded . This was followed by Aeroexpress and Malert . The first international airport was opened in Budaörs in 1937. The Second World War interrupted the expansion of Hungarian commercial aviation. Malert was dissolved in 1946.

Malév was founded on March 29, 1946 in Budapest as a Hungarian-Soviet joint venture Maszovlet . In 1950 the new Budapest Ferihegy Airport was opened, which was then the most modern in Europe. On November 25, 1954, the Soviet Union contractually announced its withdrawal from the company now known as Malév.

With the introduction of the Tupolev Tu-134 in 1966 Malév entered the jet age. From 1973, the international route network was expanded rapidly. In 1984 Malév became a member of IATA .

Ilyushin Il-14 P of the MALÉV from 1966

Tupolev Tu-154 of the MALÉV from 1977

The intercontinental era began for Malév in 1992 with the opening of airlines to Japan and North America. The state enterprise was in a same year Aktiengesellschaft converted. In the first round of privatization in December 1992, 30% went to Alitalia and 5% to the Simest investment company. In 1997 these two blocks of shares were bought up by the Hungarian banks OTP Bank Rt. And Magyar Külkereskedelmi Bank Rt. After the Hungarian trust company ÁPV Rt bought the two blocks of shares in the two banks in 1999, 99.95% was in the hands of ÁPV Rt and 0.05% in the hands of small shareholders for a long time.

At the beginning of 2007 Malév was taken over by the Russian flight alliance AiRUnion , but already on January 26th, 2009 ownership was transferred to the Russian state bank Wneschekonombank due to financial problems of AirUnion . The strategic partner in the restructuring of the ailing Malév was to be the Russian airline Aeroflot , which thereby gained strategic access to the European market. In addition, the Russian airline wanted to have its Boeing machines serviced by the Malév subsidiary Aeroplex in the future.

At the end of February, the Moscow development bank VEB and the Hungarian government agreed to nationalize the airline again. Until recently, the shares in Malév were with VEB. A complaint from competitors Wizz Air and Travel Service to the EU Commission has been announced. The Hungarian state was able to regain 95% of the shares with a capital increase of 25.2 billion forints (approx. EUR 93 million).

In December 2011 the Hungarian government announced that it wanted to set up a new flag carrier together with foreign investors . The still loss-making Malév will subsequently be wound up as part of an insolvency . In January 2012 the EU Competition Commission condemned the Hungarian government to reclaim from Malév millions of euros in aid that had been wrongly granted. In the same month, the government imposed bankruptcy protection on the airline after a short-term threat of insolvency.

On February 3, 2012 at 6:00 a.m., the airline finally ceased operations after reports of imminent bankruptcy exacerbated liquidity problems and suppliers insisted on payment in advance. The specific reason for the cancellation of all flights was obviously that the ground staff at Tel Aviv Airport refused to handle a Malév flight unless "a large sum" was paid immediately.

aims

Countries served by Malév in 2011

From Budapest, Malév operated a dense network of routes within Europe and also flew to some major cities in the Middle East . Destinations were, for example, London , Milan , Paris , Stockholm , Sarajevo , Moscow and Tel Aviv . Frankfurt am Main , Berlin , Hamburg and Stuttgart were served in Germany , and Zurich in Switzerland . The company's long-haul flights, most recently to Toronto and New York , were discontinued in summer 2008, and the Boeing 767-300ER aircraft used for this purpose were retired.

Malév worked with other airlines on many routes under code-share agreements. Either part of the trip or the entire route was carried out by Iberia , Finnair , Japan Airlines , British Airways , Air France , Czech Airlines , Aerosvit Airlines , Moldavian Airlines , Aeroflot , Bulgaria Air , Alitalia , American Airlines and Air Baltic .

fleet

A MALÉV Boeing 737-700

A MALÉV Boeing 767-300ER

A De Havilland DHC-8 -400 from Malév

A Fokker 70 from MALÉV

When flight operations ceased in February 2012, the Malév fleet consisted of 22 aircraft with an average age of 8.1 years:

Aircraft type	active	ordered	Remarks
Boeing 737-600	06th
Boeing 737-700	07th
Boeing 737-800	05
De Havilland DHC-8-400	04th	04th	Delivery was planned for 2012; + 4 options
Sukhoi Superjet 100		15th	Delivery was planned from 2011; +15 options
total	22nd	19th

Former planes

MALÉV Hungarian Airlines previously operated Bombardier CRJ200 , Boeing 737-200 , Boeing 767-300ER , Douglas DC-3 (HA-TSA) , Fokker 70 , Ilyushin Il-14 , Ilyushin Il-18 , Lisunov Li-2 , Tupolev Tu-134 , Tu-154 , VEB 14 and Jakowlew Yak-40 .

Incidents

• On August 6, 1961, a Douglas TS-62 (C-47 / DC-3) of the Malév (HA-TSA) , with which a sightseeing flight over Budapest was carried out, crashed after a loss of control on a residential building, with all 27 occupants and three People were killed on the ground. It was found that the pilots had violated operating regulations by granting third parties access to the cockpit and performing prohibited aerobatic maneuvers (see also aviation accident in Budapest 1961 ) .
• On September 30, 1975, a Tu-154 of the Malév crashed into the sea on the way from Budapest to Beirut (Flight 240) with 50 passengers and 10 crew members shortly before landing around 3 a.m. The wreck is probably 600 to 1000 meters deep, the flight recorder was never found. A detailed investigation report into this worst calamity in the history of society has never been published. The day before the crash, the PLO opened its office in Budapest. There is speculation that a downing by the Israeli or Syrian military was aimed at a PLO delegation, which, however, was actually not on board the aircraft, or that an unknown cargo was carried on board, since only about a third of the plane was with them Passengers was occupied. Members of the crew attempted reconnaissance on their own, but only found out that official bodies in Hungary, as in Lebanon, were of the opinion that the aircraft had crashed due to external influences, without further investigating this suspicion. The graves of the corpses recovered from the water and autopsied in the hospital cannot be found. In 2003 it was found that there were no longer any official documents relating to the incident in Hungary; but the details of this report also remained secret. In January 2009 a questionnaire was sent to the European Union regarding this case.
• The second worst accident in the history of the Malév occurred on September 16, 1971, when a Tu-134 crashed in bad weather near the international airport of Kiev . All 49 inmates were killed.

Since 1978, the Malév has had no more fatal incidents, apart from one death during maintenance work.

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Web links

Commons : Malév  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Malév Hungarian Airlines website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} aero.de - Hungarian Malev ceases operations February 3, 2012.
2. ^ Mourning the national airline , Budapest newspaper February 10, 2012.
3. ↑ Mourning the national airline
4. ↑ aktuell.ru
5. ↑ http://www.boersennews.de/nachrichten/top-news/ungarns-airline-malev-wird-wiederverstaatlicht/3537 Hungary's airline Malev is re-nationalized
6. ↑ The Hungarian airline Malév was re-nationalized ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Pester Lloyd on March 1, 2010, accessed March 27, 2010. 
7. ↑ airliners.de - Malev before the end? December 6, 2011.
8. ↑ airliners.de - EU: Malev has to repay financial aid January 9, 2012.
9. ↑ aero.de - Hungarian Malev is under bankruptcy protection January 30, 2012.
10. ↑ gourmet-report.de - Malev no longer flies February 3, 2012.
11. ↑ AFP: Malev ceases operations ( memento of the original from April 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 17, 2013. 
12. ↑ ch-aviation.ch - Fleet of the Malév ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on February 3, 2012. 
13. ↑ airfleets.net - Malév fleet age (English) accessed on February 3, 2012.
14. ↑ caboodle.hu - Malév to buy new aircraft ( Memento of the original of July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) July 16, 2008. 
15. ↑ aero.de: Malév wants to buy 30 Suchoi Superjet 100  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ http://www.airliners.net/aviation-articles/read.main?id=55 Accessed July 23, 2012.
17. ↑ http://www.thelostmalev.com/ Accessed July 23, 2012.
18. ↑ europarl.europa.eu