Just days before the parliamentary election, on 30 March, Levente Magyar, the deputy foreign minister, was still praising the scheduled flights relaunching from Pécs-Pogány after an 18-year break, under the German airline operator SkyHub Airlines. German airline operator went bankrupt quicklyAt a meeting of Pécs City Council’s Legal and Procedural Committee on 22 July, members had to consider a bleak proposal. The head of the municipally owned Irány Pécs company, a partner of the German firm, has been asked to explain why it previously regarded the rapidly failing company as a reliable partner. Source: Facebook/Magyar LeventeOn this point, the Pécs municipality said the German company had undergone an exceptionally strict due diligence process at the time. Austrian Airlines operated the Pécs–Vienna route for about six months in 2006 before cancelling it because of poor load factors.