SkyEurope looks to put fresh face on low fares
In November, when SkyEurope began serving London and Paris from Budapest, Hungarian media mocked the carrier as fapados, meaning wooden bench–the painfully

In November, when SkyEurope began serving London and Paris from Budapest, Hungarian media mocked the carrier as fapados, meaning wooden bench–the painfully plain, rickety class of travel from communist days. The names never hurt them. So Hungary tossed regulatory stones at the bare-bones regional to break any advantage over its national carrier, Malev.

“Every delay that could take place did take place,” said SkyEurope’s CEO, 29-year-old Christian Mandl. For its first 10 days from Budapest Ferihegy, SkyEurope suffered 20-minute “technical stopovers” to its home base of Bratislava, Slovakia. Mandl rallied passengers via his airline’s SkyBlue magazine.

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