"Royal Jordanian launches its direct scheduled flight between Amman and Budapest twice a week from 28th July, having code-share with Malév Hungarian Airline.Based on a wide-ranging code-share agreement both airlines have already started the sales activity regarding the new Amman-Budapest route.
Under the terms of the contract, from 28 July a Malév flight code is added to the Royal Jordanian direct Amman–Budapest service operating twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. This allows Malév to sell air tickets for the flight as though it were its own service.
In future, this relationship between the two new oneworld members will extend to other flights. In practice this means that passengers will soon be able to purchase Malév tickets to a range of exotic new destinations that have never before featured in the Hungarian carrier’s route network.
Travelling via Amman, the Jordanian coastal resort of Aqaba and two gems of the United Arab Emirates, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, will become accessible from Budapest. The world-famous metropolises of Bombay and Delhi in India join the network in 2008. At the same time, new opportunities open up for customers of Royal Jordanian through the Malév route network as the Hungarian company adds the Jordanian carrier code to 12 of its services, including Berlin and Copenhagen.
The direct code-share Royal Jordanian-Malév flight operated by the Jordanian party links the two capitals twice a week, although the carriers are able to offer a daily connection with a transfer in either Athens or Istanbul.
Royal Jordanian and Malév direct Amman–Budapest–Amman code-share timetable (local times):
Flight No.
Route
Dept.
Arr.
Days
RJ129/MA4129 AMM-BUD 11.30 14.10 Tuesday, Saturday
RJ130/MA4130 BUD-AMM 14.55 19.10 Tuesday, Saturday
Malév and Royal Jordanian joined oneworld, the world’s leading airline alliance, on 1 April 2007.
Royal Jordanian
Royal Jordanian’s Amman base provides the alliance with one of the best hubs for traveling around the Middle East - the world’s fastest growing region for air travel - where the airline’s network is focused. RJ serves more than 50 destinations in some 30 countries, including around 30 points in the Arab world, along with points in Asia, Europe and North America, including oneworld hubs Bangkok, Barcelona, Chicago O’Hare, London Heathrow, Madrid and New York JFK.
With some 3,600 staff, Royal Jordanian carried around two million passengers in 2006. It operates more than 60 departures a day.
The airline operates a fleet of more than 25 aircraft, all delivered in the past couple of years – with Airbus A340s on longhaul routes, A320/A321s on medium and shorthaul, and Embraer 195s on regional services.
Founded in 1963, Royal Jordanian is currently a public shareholding company wholly owed by the Jordanian government, which intends to privatise it during 2007."
Source:
Malév
28.06.2007