MALÉRT (''Magyar Légiforgalmi R.T.'') was a Hungarian

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History

The airline was founded on November 19, 1922. By 1929, the airline flew regular flights connecting Budapest with Belgrade and Vienna. The main fleet before 1939 were eight triple-engined German-built Junkers Ju 52/3m aircraft HA-JUA to HA-JUG, one airplane HA-DURNote that "hadúr" means "Warlord" in Hungarian (see

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) for the government, delivered between 1933 and 1939. Five somewhat comparable triple-engined Italian-built Savoia Marchetti S.M.75 aircraft HA-SMA to HA-SME, delivered in 1938–39. And also 3 German-built

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airplanes, with the codes HA-FOA to HA-FOD. Mainstream services operated in 1938-9 were daily Budapest-Kraków-Warsaw, daily Budapest-Prague and daily Budapest-Vienna. The airline merged with

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in 1944-46 into Maszovlet (''Magyar-Szovjet Légiforgalmi Társaság'') a forerunner of

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Destinations

The airline operated flights between

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and

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Fleet

The MALÉRT fleet consisted of the following aircraft: *3

*8 Junkers Ju 52/3m *5 Savoia-Marchetti SM.75

References

Defunct airlines of Hungary Airlines established in 1922 Airlines disestablished in 1944 1922 establishments in Hungary 1944 disestablishments in Hungary {{Hungary-transport-stub