Ferihegy International Airport is the only airport in Budapest and one of five international airports in Hungary. It was named in mid-nineteenth century Ferenc Mayerffy, formerly landlord of the region. It lies 16 km southeast of the capital. Of the three terminals (1, 2A, 2B) part a significant number of international flights, mainly to the large cities of Europe but to Asia, North American and Middle Eastern countries as well.
History of the terminal: In September 1939 after the city’s air traffic grew the possibilities offered Budaors Airport, opened a tender for construction of Ferihegy Airport. Among the contests work arrivals, by Karoly David Junior was the winner, who in his plan he dreamed of the plane of a brick building of reinforced concrete structure, the image when seen from above was a plane.
The body of the aircraft is starting the court-arrival, the plane is the horizontal main facade facing the city, the wings are the parts of buildings overlooking the field takeoff. In front of the building block overlooking the runway planned David lookout terrace and two balconies towers also on stone pillars covered with rough, these were fictional aircraft engines. With this, the terminal Ferihegy 1 in its time was considered one of the most modern airports in Europe.
After the destruction of the Second. World War I opened the airport on 7 May 1950, although parts only came to be completed later. Originally built for the Maszovlet (Air Traffic Hungarian Soviet SA), which was the legal predecessor of Malev. The first flight from Ferihegy to the west, was the Malev flight to Vienna, while the first western airline company which started online to Budapest, was the KLM airline company in Holland.
Ferihegy 1 for the eighties and could not handle the load, so after they opened at Ferihegy 2B also, in Ferihegy 1 was only cargo and equipment in addition to small private planes receipt of government.
At that time much of Ferihegy functioned primarily as office building, since in the early twenty-first century decreased traffic. At the airport belonging to the building was declared a national heritage in 2000, in 2003 with the arrival on the scene of the airlines call: wooden benches, traffic began to increase significantly again and reopened the Ferihegy 1, which still was only able to get a flight at a time.
The renewal of the national monument that began in October 2004 and lasted several months, was commissioned by the Budapest Airport Kft During the work sought to retain the elegance of the building, mainly through the use of many windows, which also makes ethereal modern parties, highlights the marble and limestone. The environment of the early time the paintings evoke what brownish placed on the walls of the main waiting room and furniture, besides the cafeteria that was reconstructed with absolute precision on the basis of period paintings.
But the character of national heritage and characteristics of the building does not make possible numerous services, no transit passengers part to transfer, you can not solve the transmission of packets, for lack of space could not do either room expected part of business and VIP. So first there were only discount airlines to use the terminal. The Budapest Airport Rt contracted with the following airlines: easyJet, Germanwings, Malmö Aviation, Norwegian Air, SkyEurope, Sterling, Wizzair.
In the end we got a classic and friendly airport, where we can move in a pleasantly developed areas and in some ways we can look at that world, which characterizes the impression of flight in the forties.
Mass transportation: If you spent up to his last HUF téliszalámi / salami / then I recommend the bus line number 93 that part of the terminus of subway Kispest K.bánya-3, which is the cheapest but at the same time one possibility less comfortable. The other bus 200 which is also part of here, but only touches Ferihegy 1 is a Volvo bus type more interior space and more traffic, equipped with air conditioning. If we get from the airport to the city, then we can also reach our goal with these two buses, which stop is located to the left of the exit of Terminal 1 and leads to K.bánya-terminus Kispest above, from there the metro “blue” takes us 25 minutes to downtown, to Deák Ferenc Square.
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