FB Airport Kft, a member of the Irish SCD Group, tourism developer around lake Balaton signed an agreement with the municipalities of Sármellék and Zalavér to lease and operate Balaton Airport.
FB Airport Kft, a member of the Irish SCD Group, tourism developer around lake Balaton signed an agreement with the municipalities of Sármellék and Zalavér (West Hungary) to lease and operate Balaton Airport for fifty plus fifty years, SCD Group told the official Hungarian news agency. The airport will receive its first international flight on April 1 as soon as the necessary licenses will have been acquired and a successful pilot flight will have been carried out in March.
According to the agreement, SCD Group will pay a fixed annual fee of HUF 6 million and a premium linked with passenger numbers to the municipalities, raising the income of local villages. SCD Group is investing HUF 500 million per year into the operation and maintenance of the airport and expects to serve 50,000 passengers at the airport in 2010.
Lufthansa announced it would operate six flights to Hungary's FlyBalaton Airport beginning in April from Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig and Erfurt.
