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Meanwhile HA-LOU (OneWorld livery 737-800) was flown to Toulouse. Reportedly, the lease company found a new lessee and the plane is now awaiting re-paint.

Update: six 737-600s formerly operaed by Malév (HA-LOJ, LON, LOE, LOD, LOG, LOF) are to be flown to the US today, where they will be dismantled for parts and scrapped.

Great photos. I see Poland is not lacking some snow either.
BTW, love Krakow, very nice city.

Thank you for your kind words. Here's a selection of photos from jets.hu to commemorate Malév's modern era: http://jets.hu/gallery?cat=261 Edit: HA-LOP also left LHBP for good. Malév employees geathered to pay farewell to "Lópeti". Some great pictures on the snowy apron: http://jets.hu/gallery?cat=2...

Well, 3 February 2012 was an emotional day for all Hungarian aviation enthusiasts. One of the pilots, Cpt. Csaba Demeter wrote an account of yesterday's events on his FB page (http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=364694876891940&id=100000542920624) - translation by yours truly: Dear Frie...

Some pictures from last evening's pre-flight opearations as members of the ground crew pay farewell to the 737s: http://jets.hu/gallery?cat=260 Pictures of the grounded fleet and the assembly of Malév employees as the CEO briefed them on the situation. Photos courtesy of Mihály Hardy, the spokesman ...

according to Skyliner all a/c except LOA,LOB and LOI were flown to Shannon. Is it fair to assume these three are owned by another leasing co. ? I believe all 737s were leased from the same company (ILFC). LOI remained in Dublin, and did not come "home", while LOA stuck in Tel Aviv after service was...

Apparently, HA-LOK, HA-LOH and HA-LOU are airborne, leaving LHBP to EINN...

According to Dutch public tv, the vultures are about: apparently, Ryanair has already expressed an interest in taking over flights from Budapest to 31 destinations... Actually, all 3 major discount airlines operating from Budapest (EasyJet, Wizz and Ryanair - the latter announced its return to Hung...

It is still uncertain when Malév aircraft will be flown to Shannon. According to the latest information, the departure of 15 to 19 a/c is scheduled between 15:10 and 15:40 CET today. However, rumours suggest that no crews are available to fly the planes, since none of Malév's pilots were willing to ...

Hi, If you're asking about the NATO Days (http://www.dny-nato.cz/index.php?lang=en): I think this event is definitely worth a visit, although the 2012 programme is yet unknown, of course. The static display has been very strong in recent years, and hopefully that will continue in 2012. As far as the...

Wim wrote:No news yet if the show goes on?

Nothing, unfortunately.
However, the unofficial info is (I believe it was disclosed on the show's Facebook page) that the Minister of Defence is "against the airshow".

Hi guys, I visited the Luchmachtdagen on saturday (unfortunately my flight was booked well in advance, and could not change to friday). Actually, this was my first visit to the Netherlands. My impression is 99% positive. To begin with, everyone was very helpful and polite (and not only on the base -...

To agree with my fellow countryman: we asked the Gripen jocks at Zeltweg, and they told us the decision is expected for December or January - which is maybe a bit late. We also talked to some of our guys in Radom, and their opinion was the same. To be honest, I'm not very optimistic about a 2012 Kec...

Stefan wrote:Man... this is sad... after all the thousands of man hours spent on restoring the aircraft...

25000 hours... quite understandably everyone is very disappointed.

First video of the crash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9WH6_x8Ug