Croatia also covered by snow, as well as Bosnia-Hercegovina, where the river Bosna frozen. Nobody can remember the last time it happened.
Hungarian Airline, Malev, suspended all operation.
As I wrote before, Malev was heading to end for years, and now it happened. The airline ran out of money, as the hungarian goverment could not give more money for the state owned company.
What to do if you already have a Malev ticket?
you have to contact local dealer or Malev office as you have the right to get a refund. If you paid it by credit card, you can ask the credit card company to get a refund.
You can all up Malev on this number +36-1-802-11-11, to get info about, how to rebook ticket to another flight of another carrier.
There were 22 persons who lost their lives amid the lowest temperatures this winter, which dropped as low as minus 32.5 Celsius.
The Romanian health ministry said today (Thurs) that in the last week 22 persons had died due to hypothermia.
In the last 24 hours, eight deaths were registered, in Arges, Buzau, Satu Mare, Hunedoara, Prahova and Dolj counties.
Meteorologists launched a new yellow code warning for blizzards and heavy snow, while temperatures are expected to get down to minus 27 Celsius. Wind will increase to 90 kilometres per hour and blizzards are expected everywhere in the country. The new warning applies until Sunday night.
(romaniantimes)
Bulgaria faced another day of record low temperatures on January 31 2012, with a “Code Orange” weather warning in force for the whole country and with the severe weather having claimed four lives the previous day.
Deaths from cold were reported on January 30 in Gabrovo in northern central Bulgaria and in Smolyan in the southern part of the country, Bulgarian National Radio said.
The two further deaths that were reported were those of a 62-year-old man from the village of Kovachevitsa, Gotse Delchev, who was found dead on January 30 in the street near his home, Bulgarian National Radio said. Police said that the cause of death was frostbite. There was no evidence of violence.
The regional directorate of the Interior Ministry said a 55-year-old woman had been found dead in the village of Lesidren, Lovech. She was believed to have died of exposure.
For January 31, the weather forecast said that average maximum temperatures would be between minus 15 and minus 10 degrees Celsius, with capital city Sofia facing a forecast high of minus 10.
Among temperature records was one set in Rousse, on the Danube, where it was minus 19.9 on the morning of January 30, the coldest the city has been on that day in 50 years.
Knezha reported minus 29 degrees, breaking the minus 28 record set in 1942.
Overnight into January 31, 11 new low temperature records were set elsewhere, including in Chirpan where it was minus 25. Vidin was minus 24, Pazardzhik minus 21.6, Vratsa minus 20.5, Pleven and Lovech minus 20, Novo Selo minus 19.8, Plovdiv minus 19.6, Svishtov minus 19.2, Oryahovo minus 17.1 and Ahtopol minus 8.6.
Meteorology forecast very cold temperatures in other countries too, like Hungary with minus 15-20 with some snow mainly in the south over the weekend, as Poland where the cold could reach minus 25-30, left almost a dozen people dead over the last couple of days.
MALEV, Hungarian Airlines, are in trouble for a few years now.
Undercapitalized, a bad privatization, than reprivatization (state owned again), still without money, than EU ordered to repay money’s given by the state as it is agains EU regulations.
Now, index.hu said, according its sources Malev has only days till the airline runs out of money and need to ground its fleet.
Vueling denied the info, that the spanish budget airline would like to buy the hungarian air carrier. But the spanish potential buyer was just the last in the queue as there were rumours about a chinese, czech, etc. buyer too.
The main question is what’s gonna be with the 2600 employees and the planes, and all the slot times of Malev in case of bankrupcy as well as what’s gonna be with Budapest Airport’s traffic.
There were also a plan B, to start a new company with Malev’s assets to save all the slot times and the advantages of a national carrier, than look for a buyer/investor later.
It seems that not too good to be an airline in Central and Eastern Europe, as CSA, the Czech Airlines are also in trouble with a potential bankrupcy in the end, but there were no buyer for serbian, romanian or even the polish airline.
Austrian Airlines also wants to recalculate routes and cut some flights.
Terra/MODIS, ELTE m?holdvev? állomás, 2012. január 28., Kern Anikó
It is a satellite photo from Saturday. Watch for the snow covered Carpathian Mountains in Romania and the Tatras in Slovakia/Poland.
Severe weather left at least 2 people dead in Romania as a lot of road (even main ones) were closed due to heavy snowing. While good and well quality snow offers skiers a good winter season in Slovakia and Poland.
Vueling, the low-fare unit of Spanish airline Iberia, is eyeing troubled Hungarian national carrier Malev, daily Nepszabadsag said on Friday, without citing any sources.The paper wrote that Vueling, which was also named as a party interested in Malev by business weekly Figyelo, had already wound up talks with the National Development Ministry and had prepared a contract and a business plan. Vueling’s board is to take a decision on the matter in February, it added.
Vueling could take over Malev by the time the airline starts its summer timetable, Nepszabadsag said.
Malev now in financial trouble (again or still) as European Comission ordered to repay more than 100 billion HUF, which was goverment funding over the last couple of years. This could be the end of the airline, so the goverment try to sell it. Which is not easy, as the russian bank still own 5% and not agreed on all terms. As well as Budapest Airport has a problem of bankrupcy of Malev as the national carrier still makes about 50% of the total revenue.
(bbj.hu)
There’s a lot of snow in Slovakia, more than the recent years.
Lower Tatras, near Chopok snow can reach 240cm, but there are nearly 1meter of fresh natural snow on the northern side at Jasna also.
You can slope down from Lomnic down to Tartanska lomnica on more than 3km length, thanks to the really good track conditions.
All ski lifts are working, restaurants are open. There are many ski resorts in Slovakia, and it is true, that smaller resorts are cheaper.
Check out major Ski Resorts and Tracks in Slovakia as well as cheap guesthouses
We take you to all major and minor ski tracks from airport
New spa opened in Mako, near Szeged, southern Hungary. The spa called ‘Hagymatikum’, which means Onionland in hungarian.
Onionland because of its architectural design, which was made by one of the best known hungarian architect Imre Makovecz.
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