Malert

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| founded = November 19, 1922

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| ceased = 1944

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MALÉRT (Magyar Légiforgalmi R.T.) was a Hungarian airline.

History

The airline was founded on November 19, 1922. 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 Ju 52/3m aircraft HA-JUA to HA-JUG, one airplane HA-DURNote that "hadúr" means "Warlord" in Hungarian (see Wiktionary) for the government, delivered between 1933 and 1939. 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 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. The airline merged with Aeroflot in 1944-46 into Maszovlet (Magyar-Szovjet Légiforgalmi Társaság) a forerunner of Malév Hungarian Airlines.

Destinations

The airline operated flights between Budapest, Kraków, Warsaw, Prague, Belgrade and Vienna.

Fleet

The MALÉRT fleet consisted of the following aircraft:

References

Category:Defunct airlines of Hungary

Category:Airlines established in 1922

Category:Airlines disestablished in 1944

Category:1922 establishments in Hungary

Category:1944 disestablishments in Hungary