Sármellék International Airport
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| Sármellék International Airport (Sármellék Nemzetközi Repülőtér) |
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| IATA: SOB - ICAO: LHSM | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Serves | Sármellék | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 408 ft (124 m) | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 16/34 | 8,202 | 2,500 | Concrete |
| 17R/35L CLOSED |
3,100 | 945 | Grass |
| Helipads | |||
| Number | Size | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| H1 | 30x45 | Paved | |
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 near 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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[edit] About the 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.
[edit] Flights
It has operated as a public airport since 1991 and became the second international airport of the country on May 15, 2002 (after Budapest Ferihegy International Airport). It frequently operates charter flights to Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig and Düsseldorf in Germany, Billund and Copenhagen in Denmark, Amsterdam in The Netherlands and Moscow in Russia.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Germanwings (Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn) [seasonal]
- Lufthansa
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Hamburg) [seasonal]
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Düsseldorf-Int.) [seasonal]
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Berlin-Tegel, Stuttgart) [seasonal]
- Ryanair (Düsseldorf-Weeze, Frankfurt-Hahn, London-Stansted)
- transavia.com (Amsterdam) [seasonal]
[edit] Cargo Flights
- DHL
- operated by EXIN Co. (Lublin, Poland)
[edit] References
- http://www.aeromedia.hu/magazin/pilota/landing.htm
- http://www.balaton-tourism.hu/public/balaton.php?magazin=has_nemzkoz
[edit] External links
- FlyBalaton Airport - Official site
- FlyBalaton Airport data - from the HungaryAirport site
- Spotter's pictures from Sármellék Airport - www.airliners.net
- Hévíz - Official site
- Zalakaros - Official site
- Airport information for LHSM at World Aero Data
