The management of Prague airport is very optimistic regarding the future of air transit in the Czech Republic. The visions of development focus on investments of 27 billion Czech crowns, and the doubling of the number of passengers. Smaller modifications in the airport area are planned during the first years, and a major investment in [...]
Every March, the Skytrax organization, which evaluates airports and airlines, publishes a chart of the world’s best airports. Millions of passengers have participated in this evaluation every year since 1999, and the chart is considered to be very prestigious. There were no big surprises in the last five years, though. This year, 2017, Singapore Changi [...]
New restaurant BURGER KING® opened on 12th April at Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague. It brings positive feelings and attractive offers to its customers. Currently it is the 14th restaurant on the BURGER KING® map of Czech Republic, and the first one in the portfolio of Lagardere Travel Retail (LTR) investors. The restaurant is open [...]
The Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air is planning to fly directly from Prague to Iceland, starting on 31 May. Planes from Prague to Reykjavik will be flying twice a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays, and the tickets will start at 1339 CZK. ČSA also confirmed the planned route between Prague and the Keflavik airport. Wizz [...]
The regional airports of Brno, Ostrava and Karlovy Vary are dependent on the subsidies provided to the airlines by the local government. The councilmen of Pardubice and Pardubický kraj have decided that the company EBA that is running the airport will simply have to do without the financial aid, even though Ryanair counted on the [...]
“We have noticed an annual increase of 8.7% when it comes to the amount of travellers using our airport. This trend was reinforced by a number of factors, like the usage of bigger, more spacious planes, offering more available seats and the successful implementation of new lines and the improvement of the older ones. Last [...]
Václav Havel Airport Prague (formerly Ruzyně Airport) is a public international airport located on the northwest edge of Prague, in the district of Prague 6. The airport is designed for both domestic and regular and irregular air traffic. Renamed after former President Vaclav Havel in October 2012, the airport shows regular increases in passengers. For the [...]
Czech Airlines has plans to introduce four new destinations from the summer season. Direct flights from Prague will be available to Verona, Lisbon, Iceland's Keflavik and Denmark's Aarhus. From 1st December, the company also presents new product packages, with the cheapest flights competing with the low-cost airline offers. They will be flying two times a [...]
The fee for the use of the Vaclav Havel airport for passengers will decrease from March 2017 for the first time in its history. Instead of the current fee of CZK 591, every passenger departing from Prague will pay CZK 585, from March next year, which coincides with the start of the new flight schedule. [...]
Now you will know exactly what place is moving in Prague airport The takeoff and landing runway 24/06 is under the constant supervision of Slow TV's camera. It monitors the planes from the distance of almost two kilometres, and it was therefore not easy to install everything correctly. Every five seconds, we retrieve direct images [...]
