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Sármellék International Airport
Sármellék Nemzetközi Repülőtér
Sarmellek Air Field.jpg
IATA: SOB – ICAO: LHSM
Summary
Airport type Public
Location Sármellék, Hungary
Elevation AMSL 124 m / 408 ft
Coordinates 46°41′11″N 017°09′33″E / 46.68639°N 17.15917°E / 46.68639; 17.15917Coordinates: 46°41′11″N 017°09′33″E / 46.68639°N 17.15917°E / 46.68639; 17.15917
Website www.flybalaton.com
Map
SOB is located in Hungary
SOB
Location within Hungary
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16/34 2,500 8,202 Concrete
Helipads
Number Length Surface
m ft
H1 3 × 45 10 × 150 Concrete
Source: Hungarian AIP at EUROCONTROL1

Sármellék International Airport (Hungarian: Sármellék Nemzetközi Repülőtér) (IATA: SOB, ICAO: LHSM), also known as FlyBalaton Airport, is an international airport in Hungary located west of Lake Balaton, 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) south-southwest1 of the village of Sármellék, Zala County and Keszthely. Its importance is due to the proximity of Lake Balaton, Hungary's most important holiday resort and the thermal spas of Hévíz and Zalakaros.

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About the airport

Arrival at Fly Balaton (Sármellék) Airport

A military airport was already located here in the 1940s. It was paved in the 1950s and functioned as a Hungarian military airport until 1960, and as a Soviet military airport between 1960 and the Autumn of 1990. The current runways were constructed in 1982.

The airport is owned by the local governments of Sármellék and Zalavár since August 2002, operated by an Irish-Hungarian investment group, Cape Clear Aviation Ltd., since 2004.

Due to financial problems, the airport closed over the winter period 2008–09, but closed indefinitely on 10 October 2009. A new buyer was then sought for the facility.2 It reopened, however, in April 2010. In the next two winters it was closed, but in the spring and summer months of 2011 and 2012 it reopened again. The flight starting again on the 14th of April 2012.

Airlines and destinations

Sármellék International Airport had operated as a public airport since 1991 and became the second international airport of the country on 15 May 2002 (after Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport). It frequently operated charter flights to Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig and Düsseldorf in Germany, Billund and Copenhagen in Denmark, Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Moscow in Russia. In December 2005 Ryanair announced flights from London Stansted 3x weekly, the route has since been cut along with flights announced in October 2006 from Frankfurt Hahn. In 2012 the Airport FlyBalaton has got a new name: from April is opening again as the Hévíz Balaton Airport.

Airlines Destinations
Lufthansa Seasonal charter: Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg

References

  1. ^ a b EAD Basic
  2. ^ Blazej, Jan (January/February 2010). "Balaton Airport Closure". Airports of the World (27): p. 14. ISSN 1747-4396. 

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