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Mar 10, 2010 (newstodate): Hungary's Fly Balaton Airport, at Sarmellek, will be back in business again from April after another prolonged pause in operations.
Re-opening the airport will be Lufthansa with a first flight on April 10, 2010.
Lufthansa will fly to the airport from Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Frankfurt.
Originally a military airport, Fly Balaton Airport was last closed down in October, 2009, but has been in and out of business as it struggled with financial problems leading to liquidation proceedings in November, 2009.
The airport, managed since 2004 under a 99-year contract by Cape Clear Aviation, handled some 120,000 passengers in 2008, but as its single most important airline customer, Ryanair closed operations at the airport by the end of October, 2008, operations were then suspended until April 2009 when it was re-opened for another half-year till CCA finally ran out of means.
Re-opening the airport will be Lufthansa with a first flight on April 10, 2010.
Lufthansa will fly to the airport from Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Frankfurt.
Originally a military airport, Fly Balaton Airport was last closed down in October, 2009, but has been in and out of business as it struggled with financial problems leading to liquidation proceedings in November, 2009.
The airport, managed since 2004 under a 99-year contract by Cape Clear Aviation, handled some 120,000 passengers in 2008, but as its single most important airline customer, Ryanair closed operations at the airport by the end of October, 2008, operations were then suspended until April 2009 when it was re-opened for another half-year till CCA finally ran out of means.