Talk:Budapest Ferihegy International Airport

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Lotsa junk added by a person who lives nearby and travels there every day. Not a rose garden.

Contents 1 Irrelevant points 2 Improvements 3 Taxi Comment 4 Charters&Caspian Airlines 5 Improvment

[edit] Irrelevant points

"Car rental is also available at the airport. This is not recommended for visitors, since Budapest is famous for its poorly maintained roads, and is known as the pothole capital of Europe. (Potholes are called kátyú meaning craters in Hungarian). Vehicle theft is a serious problem."

This has nothing to do with Ferihegy airport, and furthermore it is not a reason to not rent a car from Ferihegy. Much of this information is completely irrelevant to the Ferihegy article. I am going to remove some of it, if no one objects.--Hungarian83 05:15, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)

[edit] Improvements

With respect to the editors of the article, I kept a lot of the original text, but I greatly improved the article structure and format and deleted certain parts, since they were still POV, and not backed up with any evidence. In place of the deleted material, I tried to add some non-POV information. I also changed some sentence structure to help the article flow better, fixed spelling errors, improved some of the word choice (example: airline buff --> airline enthusiast), and reorganized some of the thoughts. Certain paragraphs had a stream of consciousness feel to them.

I can back up the information I added. According to MALÉV, the baggage shrink wrapping is still available, and according to the airport’s website, the airport minbus service uses Ford Transit vans. Regardless, I didn’t feel that make of the vehicle was important to the article.

Also, about the pothole information(!). The idea of the article is to inform people about Ferihegy, not scare them away from Hungary. I have driven all throughout Budapest, and much of Hungary. Yes, there are poorly maintained roads, but it’s not that bad (at least not any worse than anywhere else). By the way, the motorways are in excellent condition. Anyway, I don’t know how the article got from a civilian airport article to opinions on intracity road surface conditions, but I don’t believe it was appropriate.

The history section still leaves much to be desired, but I thought it would be at least a start. I hope the general consensus is that the article is improved, more informative, and better organized. --Hungarian83 07:27, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)

[edit] Taxi Comment

I have removed the wording

However, foreigners are often cheated, and it is recommended that passengers call a reputable taxi company and wait, rather than taking a chance with a potentially problematic scammer.

Since I know of no support for it. 84.2.191.155 05:25, 19 May 2006 (UTC)drott May 19, 2006 7:25

I think the entire Taxi part needs to go. This is not encyclopedic writing. 80.230.163.25 12:08, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Charters&Caspian Airlines

Does Caspian Airlines really serve Budapest? Don´t think so! By the way: We should list the charter destinations which are served from Budapest. Dagadt 18:06, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Improvment

AS far as I know the airport was operating pre-war. During WW2 it was a fighter base for the defence of the capital (both day and night fighters). It was overun by the Red Army in Dec 1944. Perhaps someone can verify these for contribution.

Secondly, unless anyone has any objections I will remove the charming reference about flying over the cemetery - a. who says its the largest?, b. Is it the only sight you will see? c. what has it got to do with the airport?

As for rough roads and dodgy taxi-drivers - it is no better or worse than any other capital city. Doesn't the new M0 motorway connect up with the airport yet?Sidney Bung (talk) 20:24, 18 November 2007 (UTC)