Air Berlin is to join oneworld®, adding Europe’s fifth largest airline and Germany’s second biggest carrier to the world’s leading quality airline alliance.

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In the first six months of 2010 Malév's passenger traffic was similar to that of the same period in 2009, with a total of 1.3 million customers flying on the carrier's services. Even though there was no increase, still the number of passengers reflects an improvement in efficiency because it managed to achieve the same result with 16% fewer flights and increased the average load factor by 3.5%. The airline also cut its costs by a significant amount - 16.6 million Euros - in the first half of this year compared with the January-June 2009 figure.

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Tuesday, 20 July 2010:  oneworld^® has warmly welcomed today's final approval by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) of the application for anti-trust immunity (ATI) for the alliance's transatlantic carriers American Airlines, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia and Royal Jordanian, and the joint business agreement (JBA) between the US, UK and Spanish companies.

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Malév has successfully launched Amadeus DCS (Departure Control System), which provides benefits for both passengers and staff since through the use of this advanced application the airport management of travellers is simplified and speeded up. Furthermore, the travelling public can now take advantage of the new online check-in  system, one of the great advantages of which, for instance, is that check-in is authorized not only for the immediate flight but onward connections too, as well as the fact that the whole check-in process is made simpler and more transparent. Malév began the switchover to the Amadeus Altéa passenger service platform last year; the first stage in this process was the renewal of the online booking engine in 2009.

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"One good turn deserves another!" This could well be the motto of the campaign in which Italian tourism enterprises - Just Hotels Group, the Local Authority of the town of Riccione and Malpensa Airport in Milan - are hosting a group of 20 Hungarian children coming from areas hit by the recent flooding for a week-long seaside summer vacation in Riccione. The Italian offer is at the same time a response to the Hungarian support provided a year ago when representatives of the domestic tourism profession (Hungarian National Tourist Office, Tourism Office of Budapest), Malév and Budapest Airport received a group of Italian children from the town of L'Aquila that had been struck by an earthquake for a long weekend in Budapest. Similarly to last year, this year's campaign could also be realized at the initiative of the Hungarian national airline and with the support of Budapest Airport Zrt. and Hungarian Baptist Aid.

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