Thursday, September 20, 2007

Malev withdrawing from Krakow


Hungarian national carrier cancels its Budapest-Krakow connection. The last departure from Krakow will take place on October 26. Malev will also close its office at Krakow airport. The flights between two cities by Malev commenced in July 2003. The Hungarian airline was using Fokkers 70 (seen on the photo) and CRJ 200ER on this route. These planes were able to take 50-70 passangers on a single flight.

Two weeks ago Sky Europe - one of the first middle-European low-cost carriers - decided to quit its operations in Krakow and moved on to concentrate its business in much cheaper and profitable airports as Vienna, Prague and Bratislava. Polish low-cost airline Centralwings (subsidiary of LOT Polish Airlines) filled in the vacant spot. The Krakow airport authorities are also in the middle of talks with Ryanair to bring the Irish airline to fly from Krakow.

Photo by Viktor Laszlo/Malev

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