BASe Airlines

Our Company, the Budapest Aircraft Service Kft. (Ltd.) -in brief: BASe Airlines, was established by pilots and technical experts of aviation in December 1991. Headquarters of the Company is located in Budapest, and the base of our operations: Budapest Airport , Franz Liszt International Airport, Hangar 187-1. From 1992 to 2000 we have performed night courier flights to Austrian, Slovakian and Italian destinations from BUD, ZAG and LJU as well. From 1994 to 2006 our company maintained and operated 11 helicopters of the Hungarian National Health Services for HEMS tasks based on a network of six heliports in Hungary, and one fixed wing aircraft for Air Ambulance services. From 1996 to 2010 with a special equipped L-410 UVP-E8 we provided precision calibration/test flights of civil and tactical air navigation systems both in Hungary and abroad . In 1997 we bought the first own “Turbolet” aircraft , and the second one in 2000. From 2003 to 2005 we have performed charter chains with our Turbolets from Budapest and smaller Hungarian airports to popular resorts of Croatia and Montenegro . Having our first EMB-120 in 2005 we continued these charter flights to Tivat, than to Corfu, Burgas, Zakynthos, Podgorica by cooperating with the biggest Hungarian tour operators. In 2008 we purchased two more EMB120 ER aircraft. From November 2007 to 2012 we operated scheduled daily flights from BUD to LJU, ZAG, TSR, TGM, CLJ, BEG, TGD, IAS, TIR, etc. by our Embraers under call sign of Malév Hungarian Airline. When MALÉV operation ceased, we operated daily scheduled flights in wet-lease (ACMI) arrangement: 2013-2014 between Salzburg and Zürich; 2013 October-2016 March daily scheduled flights between several Croatian cities; 2018 April - we operate daily scheduled flights between EBJ – SVG- BLL. From 2015 February to 2018 February we have been operating daily scheduled flights in Finland between Savonlinna and HEL under PSO contracts with the Finnish Government.