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Budapest Airport Getting Back On Its Feet After Malév Collapse
- 6 Feb 2012 8:03 AM
- travel
"Budapest Airport is pleased to report that following the events of Friday 3rd February, when the entire Malév fleet was grounded, a gentle calm has returned in the last 48 hours. Budapest Airport successfully used its Crisis Control Center, situated in Terminal 2, to manage the immediate effects of the national airline’s collapse with a primary view to ensuring that stranded passengers were ...
Malév Grounded, Hungarian Airline Crisis Advice
- 3 Feb 2012 10:11 AM
- current affairs
Malév stopped operations after 66 years of flying this morning at 6am CET, Friday 3 February. A company announcement explained the shutdown was due to the airline being unable to finance advance payments to its service partners who had “lost trust” in the Hungarian national carrier. XpatLoop.com was invited to a special event in Budapest today where
Wizz Air To Invest USD 100 million In Budapest
- 3 Feb 2012 8:50 AM
- travel
Wizz Air, the largest low fare - low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced today that it would invest HUF 25 billion (USD 100m) into expanding its operations in Budapest. As of March 2012, the airline will add two Airbus A320 aircraft to its Budapest base, a 66% increase in overall capacity. The airline says one result will be 700 new jobs.
Wizz Air Offers Rescue Fares To Malév Passengers
- 3 Feb 2012 8:07 AM
- travel
Wizz Air, the largest low fare – low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced today that it would provide a special rescue package to passengers impacted by the suspension of Malev’s operations by offering re-routing alternatives to/from Budapest.
Video: New Names At Budapest Sziget Festival 2012
- 26 Jan 2012 1:40 AM
- entertainment
The 20th Sziget Festival this summer aims to be a whole lot more than just a jubilee get-together. 2012 will once again see some of the hottest new bands in the festival’s line-up, including synthpop phenomenon: Hurts, and UK rock scene’s finest ambassadors: The Horrors. Other new names on this year's line up are Mando Diao, Friendly Fires, Noah And The Whale, The Subways, and Crystal Fighters. ...
Portico Quartet (UK), Festival Theatre Budapest, 25 January
- 23 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"The sound of the Portico Quartet, a foursome from London and Southampton, is distinguished by the use of the hang, an instrument belonging to the idiophone class of instruments, which although closely resembling a gamelan gong or perhaps even a steelpan, is in reality not an organic instrument, but rather a UFO-shaped invention by a Swiss company. (Kornél Horváth is known to play this instrument ...
Speech By Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán At The London School Of Economics
- 17 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Speech made on 10 November 2011 at LSE, UK: "Thank you very much and good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen. My elaboration today is about Central Europe and its future in a wider context, may I say in a European context. Thank you for the invitation, because it is always a joy to explain Central Europe to the Westerners, which is not an easy job anyway. The difficulty of that kind of lecture is ...
Nine Indicted For Fraud In Stem Cell Treatment Case In Hungary
- 12 Jan 2012 12:00 AM
- current affairs
"The prosecutor's office has indicted nine people on suspicion of fraud in the matter of a stem cell scandal that erupted in 2009. Under the indictment, stem cell treatments were conducted without permission at a Kaposvár clinic expressly founded for that purpose.
UBS Says Hungary Might Default
- 5 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
"A sovereign default by Hungary is fifth on a list of top ten possible surprises in 2012 drawn up by Swiss investment bank UBS. The probability of default is seen as highest in Pakistan, Ukraine, Hungary and Croatia. UBS notes that Hungary’s state debt is high in relation to GDP, which is suffering from a poor growth outlook.
Budapest Airport Getting Back On Its Feet After Malév Collapse
- 6 Feb 2012 8:03 AM
- travel
"Budapest Airport is pleased to report that following the events of Friday 3rd February, when the entire Malév fleet was grounded, a gentle calm has returned in the last 48 hours. Budapest Airport successfully used its Crisis Control Center, situated in Terminal 2, to manage the immediate effects of the national airline’s collapse with a primary view to ensuring that stranded passengers were ...
Malév Grounded, Hungarian Airline Crisis Advice
- 3 Feb 2012 10:11 AM
- current affairs
Malév stopped operations after 66 years of flying this morning at 6am CET, Friday 3 February. A company announcement explained the shutdown was due to the airline being unable to finance advance payments to its service partners who had “lost trust” in the Hungarian national carrier. XpatLoop.com was invited to a special event in Budapest today where
Wizz Air To Invest USD 100 million In Budapest
- 3 Feb 2012 8:50 AM
- travel
Wizz Air, the largest low fare - low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced today that it would invest HUF 25 billion (USD 100m) into expanding its operations in Budapest. As of March 2012, the airline will add two Airbus A320 aircraft to its Budapest base, a 66% increase in overall capacity. The airline says one result will be 700 new jobs.
Wizz Air Offers Rescue Fares To Malév Passengers
- 3 Feb 2012 8:07 AM
- travel
Wizz Air, the largest low fare – low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced today that it would provide a special rescue package to passengers impacted by the suspension of Malev’s operations by offering re-routing alternatives to/from Budapest.
Video: New Names At Budapest Sziget Festival 2012
- 26 Jan 2012 1:40 AM
- entertainment
The 20th Sziget Festival this summer aims to be a whole lot more than just a jubilee get-together. 2012 will once again see some of the hottest new bands in the festival’s line-up, including synthpop phenomenon: Hurts, and UK rock scene’s finest ambassadors: The Horrors. Other new names on this year's line up are Mando Diao, Friendly Fires, Noah And The Whale, The Subways, and Crystal Fighters. ...
Portico Quartet (UK), Festival Theatre Budapest, 25 January
- 23 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"The sound of the Portico Quartet, a foursome from London and Southampton, is distinguished by the use of the hang, an instrument belonging to the idiophone class of instruments, which although closely resembling a gamelan gong or perhaps even a steelpan, is in reality not an organic instrument, but rather a UFO-shaped invention by a Swiss company. (Kornél Horváth is known to play this instrument ...
Speech By Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán At The London School Of Economics
- 17 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Speech made on 10 November 2011 at LSE, UK: "Thank you very much and good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen. My elaboration today is about Central Europe and its future in a wider context, may I say in a European context. Thank you for the invitation, because it is always a joy to explain Central Europe to the Westerners, which is not an easy job anyway. The difficulty of that kind of lecture is ...
Nine Indicted For Fraud In Stem Cell Treatment Case In Hungary
- 12 Jan 2012 12:00 AM
- current affairs
"The prosecutor's office has indicted nine people on suspicion of fraud in the matter of a stem cell scandal that erupted in 2009. Under the indictment, stem cell treatments were conducted without permission at a Kaposvár clinic expressly founded for that purpose.
UBS Says Hungary Might Default
- 5 Jan 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
"A sovereign default by Hungary is fifth on a list of top ten possible surprises in 2012 drawn up by Swiss investment bank UBS. The probability of default is seen as highest in Pakistan, Ukraine, Hungary and Croatia. UBS notes that Hungary’s state debt is high in relation to GDP, which is suffering from a poor growth outlook.