Balaton Ballooning

About Us

Balaton Ballooning is the first and only internationally run professional hot air balloon company in Hungary. We have more than 30 years of experience in passenger carriage. We have been operating for 14 years in Hungary and also have interests in Italian and Dubai balloon companies.

What is Three-fold Safety?

We are a full time balloon company, not a balloon sport club. Our pilots are not hobby pilots, but some of the most experienced full time commercial balloon pilots in the world. Our two pilots have a combined 7000 hours of flying time.

Our equipment is purchased new, directly from the best balloon manufacturers, not second or third hand. We fly Hungary’s newest, most robust and safest 18 passenger balloon basket. Ours is the only balloon basket is Hungary that is equipped with passenger safety belts. We also carry a transponder on all of our flights, so that the air traffic controllers are aware of where our balloon is in any given moment.

All of our passengers are insured by one of Europe’s largest company,seated in Germany, that specialises in aviation passenger insurance.

The Team

Peter Kollar

Chief Pilot, co-owner

Peter, our Chief Pilot, is one of the most experienced balloon pilots in the world. Read more...

Attila Alklan

Pilot and Operations Manager

Attila started his aviation carrier as a skydiver in 1984. Read more...

Gabor Kollar

CEO, co-owner

After graduating Gabor started working for Hungarian Airlines in 1991. He was the regional manager for North-West Hungary and Slovakia. Read more...

Where – When – And for how much?

Your balloon takes off daily from Heviz, weather permitting, from the 1st of April till 31st of October. (see location map). The flights start late afternoon landing at sunset.

The duration of the whole trip is 3-4 hours including the approx. one hour ballon flight, hotel transfers within 20 km, flight certificate and a glass of local champagne.