MALÉRT (''Magyar Légiforgalmi R.T.'') was a
Hungarian airline
An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in whic ...
, founded on November 19, 1922. The airline merged with
Aeroflot
PJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines (russian: ПАО "Аэрофло́т — Росси́йские авиали́нии", ), commonly known as Aeroflot ( or ; russian: Аэрофлот, , ), is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. The ...
in 1944-46 into
Maszovlet
Maszovlet (short for ''Magyar–Szovjet Polgári Légiforgalmi Részvénytársaság,'' "Hungarian-Soviet Civil Air Transport Joint Stock Company") was a Hungarian airline founded on March 29, 1946. It was a predecessor of Malév.
History
The f ...
(''Magyar-Szovjet Légiforgalmi Társaság'') a forerunner of
MALÉV Hungarian Airlines.
By 1929, the airline flew regular flights connecting Budapest with Belgrade and Vienna.
The main fleet before 1939 were eight triple-engined German-built Junkers Ju52/3m aircraft HA-JUA to HA-JUG, one airplane HA-DUR
[Note that "hadúr" means "Warlord" in Hungarian (se]
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for the government, delivered between 1933–39. Five somewhat comparable triple-engined Italian-built Savoia Marchetti S.M.75 aircraft HA-SMA to HA-SME, delivered in 1938–39. And also 3 German-built
Focke-Wulf Fw 58
The Focke-Wulf Fw 58 ''Weihe'' ( Harrier) was a German aircraft, built to fill a request by the ''Luftwaffe'' for a multi-role aircraft, to be used as an advanced trainer for pilots, gunners and radio operators.
Design and development
The Fw ...
airplanes, with the codes HA-FOA to HA-FOD.
Mainstream services operated in 1938-9 were daily Budapest-Kraków-Warsaw, daily Budapest-Prague and daily Budapest-Vienna.
References
Defunct airlines of Hungary
Airlines established in 1922
Airlines disestablished in 1944
1922 establishments in Hungary
1944 disestablishments in Hungary
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