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Szentpétervár St. Petersburg Két Világ Határán Connecting Two Worlds HORIZON 2011/8 • Ingyenes példány • complImentary copy www.malev.com SZENTPÉTERVÁR ST. PETERSBURG két világ határán connecting two worlds üdvözöljük A fedélzeten | welCome on BoArd Kedves UTAsUNK! A Malév új vezetése igyekszik az Önök igényeihez és anyagi lehetőségeihez igazodó szolgáltatásokat nyújtani, hiszen nem titkolt célunk, hogy minél többen válasszák a Magyar Légitársaságot magán- vagy akár hivatalos utazá- saikhoz. Egy utazás megtervezésekor sok szempontot kell figyelembe venni, amelyekből az egyik legfontosabb természetesen az ár. Ebből kiindulva fejlesz- tettük ki online Utazástervező szolgáltatásunkat, amely éppen az árból indul ki, ráadásul abból, amit Ön határoz meg. Az európai szinten is újdonságnak számító rendszerünk segítségével pillanatok alatt megtalálhatja a minden szempontból megfelelő repülőjegyet. A Malév foglalási rendszerében közel egy évre előre is kereshet a járatok közül. Ennek köszönhetően akár már most lefoglalhatja jövő évi nyaralásához repülőjegyeit, de előre betervezhe - ti a családlátogatások vagy üzleti találkozók időpontjait is. Sőt, a rendszer rugalmassága azt is lehetővé teszi, hogy a jegyre szánt ár mellett a célállo - más jellegét is megadja, így még több lehetősége nyílik arra, hogy a legjobb döntést hozhassa meg. Rendszerünkben választhat többek között tengerparti nyaralóhelyek, vásárlásra ideális és gyerekkel utazóknak ajánlott célállomá- sok közül. Az Utazástervezőben természetesen a foglalás azonnal indítható. Az Utazástervező mellett további online szolgáltatásokat is bevezetünk; ebben a hónapban indítjuk a törzsutasaink számára kifejlesztett alkalmazást, ami lehetővé teszi, hogy honlapunkon is lefoglalhassák repülőjegyüket összegyűlt törzsutaspontjaikért. De kollégáim már újabb online és mobil alkalmazások bevezetésén is dolgoznak. Fejlesztéseink kényelmesebbé teszik a jegyvásárlást és az utazást, ami időt, pénzt és fáradtságot takarít meg Önnek. Köszönjük, hogy utazásához ebben a hónapban is a Malévet választotta! Berényi János Az igAzgAtóság elnöke ChAirmAn of the BoArd of direCtors deAr PAsseNgers, The new management of Malév is working hard to provide services in line with your demands and means, since it is no secret that our aim is for as many people as possible to choose Hungarian Airlines, be they travelling for personal or business reasons. When planning a journey many issues have to be considered, price naturally being one of the most important. With that in mind, we have developed our online travel planner which primarily takes into account the price level that you determine. With the help of our application, which is both top-quality and new in Europe, in seconds you can find the appropriate air ticket matching all your requirements. With Malév’s booking system you can search flights almost one year in advance and thus you can already book tickets for next year’s summer vacation or plan ahead the dates for your visit home or business meetings. Furthermore, besides price considerations, the flexible system allows you to indicate the character of your destination as well, and thus even more opportunities are opened up for making the best decision. You can chose, for example, seaside resorts, ideal shopping or recommended destinations for those travelling with children. Naturally booking can be immediately initiated with the travel planner. In addition to the travel planner, we have also introduced further online services. This month we are launching an application to enable our frequent flyers to book air tickets on our website using accrued points, and my col- leagues are already working on the introduction of additional online and mobile phone tools. All these developments make ticket purchasing and travel more convenient, saving you time, money and energy. Thank you for again choosing to fly with Malév this month. 3 tArtAlom Contents HORIZON 30 A horizon a malév magyar légiközlekedési zrt. havilapja. megjelenik a geomédia zártkörű részvénytársaság kiadásában. A magazin a malév valamennyi járatán az utasok ingyenes példánya. horizon is published monthly in Budapest for malév hungarian Airlines ltd. by geomédia ltd. the magazine is free to customers on mAlév hungarian Airlines flights worldwide. 14 augUszTUs Please send all your comments to: mAlév EDITOR-in-Chief: Márta róna mAlév EDITOR: ádám Hegedűs, Melinda Kiss augUsT 20 ContACt Address: 1097 Budapest, lurdy ház könyves kálmán krt. 12–14. iii. emelet www.malev.com e-mail: [email protected] PUBlished BY/kiAdó: GEOMéDiA LTD. mAnAging direCTOR/vezérigAzgATÓ: László Horváth discover hungAry 1036 Budapest, lajos u. 48–66/B 06 tel.: (+36-1) 489-8801 fax: (+36-1) 489-8803 progrAmAjáNló progrAmmes PRODUCtion direCTOR/lAPigAzgATÓ: 07 rita szelekovszky tel.: (36-1) 999-9501 a hónap KiállíTásA: bUdapesT PoziTív [email protected] 22 exhibiTioN of The month: bUdapesT PosiTive CommerCiAl direCtor/kereskedelmi vezérigAzgAtó-helYettes: a hónap FESZTIVÁLJA: szigeT feszTivál András siegler 24 FESTIVAl of The month: szigeT FESTIVAl Advertising department/hirdetési osztálY: tel.: (36-1) 489-8812, (36-1) 489-8813, a hónap embere: Al paciNo (36-1) 489-8814, 26 PersoN of The month: Al paciNo fax: (36-1) 489-8849 e-mail: [email protected] Utazás: szentpéTervár ha észrevétele van, kérjük, forduljon hozzánk: 50 30 TrAvel: sT. 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A lapban eset- C 66 leg megjelenő szerkesztői vélemények nem feltétlenül tükrözik a mAlév álláspontját, sem | ezekért, sem a lapban megjelenő hirdetések tartalmáért a mAlév nem vállal felelősséget. P sUdoku while every effort is made to ensure accuracy, the publishers of Horizon cannot be held ké responsible for changes in dates, prices and opening times in editorial sections or sUdoku AP 70 advertisements which may occur after going to press. material in this publication may not be reproduced in any form without permission. requests for permission should be made íml in writing to the editor in chief of mAlév, as well as to the managing director of geo- üdvözöljüK A fedélzeTeN! C médiA ltd. editorial opinions expressed in horizon are not necessarily those of mAlév welcome oN boArd hungarian Airlines, nor does the airline accept responsibility for the advertising content. 71 Xviii. évfolYAm, nYolcadik szám / VOL. Xviii. issUe no. 8. évfordUló: A PesTi állatkerT 98 anniversAry: The bUdapesT zoo szentPétervár st. PetersBUrg Geomédia Kiadó Zrt. issn 1218-2346 4 5 DdisisCoOVERVer HhunUngGAARYrY ProgrAmAjánló WHAT YOU ALWAYS Kaposvári nemzetközi KamArAzenei fesztivál WANTED TO KNOW Augusztus 12–19. között második alkalom- mal rendezik meg a kaposvári nemzetkö- ABOUT HUNGARy… zi kamarazenei fesztivált, amely tavaly a vártnál is nagyobb közönséget: több mint BUT WERE AFRAID 13 000 látogatót vonzott. A fesztiválon idén is a világ legnépszerűbb hazai és külföldi ze- neművészei (kocsis zoltán, Perényi miklós, TO ASK frankl Péter, Alexander longquich, Alexei ogrintchouk, lendvai józsef, keller And- Territory: 93,036 km2 rás, Colin Currie) lépnek fel, akik merőben Population: 9,986,000 új oldalukról mutatkoznak meg – legtöbbjük Administration: Budapest + 19 counties eddig szólistaként jelent meg a világ zenei Country dialling code: 36 színpadain, ezúttal kamarazenészként mu- Official currency: forint (no smaller unit of change) zsikálnak együtt. A nemzetközi kamaraze- Exchange rate: 1 euro = approx. 276 forints (please check the nei fesztivál egyik különlegessége idén is exact rate on arrival) a nemzetközi jam-session találkozó lesz, Official language: Hungarian melyen 30–40 kiválasztott muzsikus közös Electricity: 230 V, 50 Hz improvizációja adja meg a rendezvény estéi- Average temperature in August: 20.5 °C nek táncmulatsággal egybekötött hangulatát. What we recommend in August: További információk: www.kaposfest.hu és • August is a month of end-of summer festivals with count- www.facebook.com/kaposfest less multi-arts events where you can pray for autumn Kaposvár, augusztus 12–19. days to sooth away the summer heat. The Ördögkatlan Festival organised by Budapest’s Bárka Theatre in Baranya County is offering exciting theatre and music productions with prominent Hungarian and foreign Kaposvár performers (3–7 August). The Zemplén Festival is indulg- internAtionAl festivAl ing devotees of classical music, dance and jazz (12–20 August). For nearly a week the Sziget Festival in Budapest of ChAmBer MusiC is tempting visitors with some 1000 events, international stars and carefree relaxation (10–15 August). And if you the second kaposvár international Cham- are travelling in Northern Great Plain region, don’t miss ber music festival is scheduled for 12–19 the Csángó Festival
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