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1969
1969 - 0077.PDF
FLIGHT Internotiono/. 9 January /9W 61 Airline Profile NUMBER THIRTY-SIX IN THE SERIES HUNGARY'S STATE-OWNED AIRLINE By JOHN SEEKINGS Nobody needs to be told that Eastern Europe is passing through an era of experiment. In the economic sphere this is apparent in attempts being made at decentralisation. Although particular publicity has been given to current Soviet efforts to subject industry to the forces of demand and supply, the most remarkable transformation to be affected in Eastern Europe is the introduction in Hungary of the "new economic mechanism" last winter. Of the enterprises to be affected by this programme, none has been more significantly influenced than the Hungarian State airline, Malev. AIR TRANSPORT IN HUNGARY goes back just over 50 years to the launching of the first mail service on July 4, 1918, using a Brandenburg biplane on the route Budapest/ Vienna/Cracow/Lemberg. During the 'twenties two airlines emerged, Malert—which operated from Budapest to Vienna and Belgrade—and Aero Express with a flying-boat service Budapest/Balaton/Zagreb until its later incorporation into Malert. World War Two saw the destruction of Hungary's entire air transport system, not one airport or aircraft surviving intact by 1945. In the following year came ratification of a Hungarian/Soviet inter-State agreement setting up Maszovlet, which started domestic services in October 1946 (using aircraft, equipment and skilled personnel provided by the USSR) on the routes Budapest-Debrecen and Budapest-Szombathely, and which over subsequent years gradually extended into surround ing countries of Eastern Europe. The next significant year was 1954, when, in accordance with the Hungarian-Soviet bilateral agreement, the airline became the exclusive property of the Hungarian partner. Under the new title Malev (Magyar Legikozlekedesi Vdllalat— Hungarian Air Transport Enterprise) the airline gradually started to develop its western services: 1956, Vienna; 1958, Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam; 1959, Zurich, Stockholm At the top of the page is an impression of a Tu-134 in a new Malev styling; four of these twin jets are on order for delivery to the air line this year. On the right is a formalised plan of the network of international sem'ces operated in 1968 LONDON -AMSTERDAM r-BRUXELLES LUXEMBOURG =FRANKFURT -PARIS K0BENHAVN MOSKVA KIEV
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