<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History of H&eacute;v&iacute;z&ndash;Balaton International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">A military airport was 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. S&aacute;rmell&eacute;k International Airport had operated as a public airport since 1991 and became the second international airport in the country on May 15, 2002, after Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. The airport has been owned by the local governments of S&aacute;rmell&eacute;k and Zalav&aacute;r since August 2002 and operated by an Irish-Hungarian investment group, Cape Clear Aviation Ltd., since 2004.</p>
<p class="blog-para">scheduled flights from London-Stansted, but the route was cut in October 2006, along with flights from Hahn. Due to financial problems, the airport closed over the winter period 2008&ndash;09, then closed indefinitely on October 10, 2009. A new buyer was then sought for the facility. It reopened, however, in April 2010. In the next two winters, it closed, but it reopened again for the spring and summer months of 2011 and 2012. Since April 2012, the airport has been known by its new name: H&eacute;v&iacute;z&ndash;Balaton Airport. During summer 2022, Wizz Air flew to Dortmund, but the route was cancelled later in the year.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Ground transportation from H&eacute;v&iacute;z&ndash;Balaton International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">A government decision in 2016 set a deadline of 2022 for the construction of a railway ring around Lake Balaton. As of 2017, there is still no decision as to whether a railway station at the airport would be part of the Balaton Rail Ring.</p>
<p><img class="img-fluid p-lg-0 rounded w-100" title="H&eacute;v&iacute;z&ndash;Balaton Airport" src="../../main/img/airport/hev/1.webp" alt="H&eacute;v&iacute;z&ndash;Balaton Airport " width="950px" height="500px"></p>