Astonishing VIDEO and PHOTOS of Budapest Airport’s ‘secret, silent’ Terminal 1
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Terminal 1 was closed to traffic after MALÉV, Hungary’s flag carrier, went bankrupt in 2012. However, it still looks magnificent and a photographer of Hosszúlépés, a Hungarian walking tour organising company active in Budapest, shared some footage.
Budapest Airport Terminal 1 renewed, then closed
Hosszúlépés has a walking tour at Budapest Airport Terminal 1 during which the partakers can discover the secrets and beauties of the first terminal of the international airport. According to their description, time has stopped in the halls of the terminal. Check-in desks, inscriptions and baggage conveyors look exactly as they did when the last passengers took off from this terminal more than a decade ago.
Terminal 1 was the first terminal of Budapest Airport opened in 1950 to traffic. It was redesigned and rebuilt in 2004 because of Hungary’s EU accession and the severe security measures implemented e.g. because of the 11 September terrorist attack against the USA.
Magnificent building built in modernist style
The building of Terminal 1 is one of the best examples of the modernist style in Hungary and in Europe. Renovation lasted until 2005 and the airport received the Europa Nostra Medal in 2007 for its beauty. However, the terminal did not operate for long. In 2012, following MALÉV’s bankruptcy, it had to close due to the significant decrease in airport traffic. In 2017, Budapest Airport reviewed the decision but did not decide to reopen the old terminal.
This building, that is rightly credited being referred to as “part of aviation history” in Hungary – if its walls could speak, from it’s 1950’s opening, to it’s closure, what TALES it could tell.
The 1950’s opening to the FALL of the Wall circa 1989, it would be FASCINATING – the TALES these Walls could tell, and who embarked and disembarked into and out of Hungary.
Could that be the case in modern times with Franz Liszt ?
MINDBOGGLING – with the record of the current Orban – Fidesz Government, who are it the “people movement” in and out of Franz Liszt Airport.
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