Air Transat is leasing one of their Airbuses A330-200 to Travel Service for 2015 winter season. Travel Service will operate this 345 seater (12C + 333Y) on Carribean charters to Varadero/Punta Cana. This widebody lease allows Travel Service to avoid technical stops at Azores needed for Boeing 737-800 operated this flights before. Carribean service is scheduled twice per week (Wed, Sun). Travel Service operated widebody aircraft in winter seasons 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 using Boeing 767-300.
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Travel Service is leasing Boeing 737-800 registration OK-TVF to El Al Israel Airlines. El Al is lacking aircraft for their summer expansion so Travel Service is providing ACMI (wet) lease of one aircraft that will be used mainly for flights from Tel Aviv to Prague (nine flights per week). Other rotations this aircraft from Tel Aviv leads to Lisbon and Zagreb. This lease is causing miss Up by El Al livery in Prague till the end of August.
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Latvian airBaltic is introducing new route from Prague to Budapest. Route from Riga to Prague will be extended to Budapest effective October 25th 2015 using DHC8-400 (10x weekly). Prague - Budapest segment is dominated by CSA Czech Airlines as Malev went out of business a few years ago.
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The expected CSA service from Stuttgart has been revised. The Stuttgart – Geneva – Marseille flights, planned 4 times a week using ATR42-500 as OK600/1/2/3 have been cancelled due to low bookings. The flights have been planned for Tue and Thu morning and evening, return at noon the same day and Wed + Fri morning effective 26.05.2015.
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The CSA Czech Airlines Prague - Kiev service will land in Kosice on its way since 18.05.2015. The carrier hopes to get a better load factor in this way, using the rights between Kosice and Kiev as well. The 4 weekly flights are moved to nighttime. An Airbus A319 takes off from Prague at 22:10 every Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, visits Kosice between 23:25/23:55 and lands in Kiev at 02:10. It goes back 2 hours later to land in Prague at 06:15 (going through Kosice at 04:30/05:00).
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Two A320s used by CSA Czech Airlines are supposed to leave for Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday. Newly registered as AP-BLU (ex OK-LEE) and AP-BLV (ex OK-LEF) , they are going to continue their service with Pakistan International Airlines.
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Two more B737-800s are joining Travel Service fleet for summer, this time coming from Canadian CanJet. C-FTCX (built 2000, c/n 29921, to be registered as OK-TSJ) and C-FTCZ (2000, 29923, OK-TSL) landed at Ruzyne this morning. The usual A320s from SmartLynx Airlines are coming as well YL-LCD (1992, c/n 359) first landed in Prague at April 30th, YL-LCA (c/n 333) came yesterday. An B737-900ER (OK-TSI) from the Indian SpiceJet is expected in the middle of May.
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SmartWings is cutting Prague - Dubai flights during summer 2015. There are 6 flights (daily except Tue) by end of April 2015. There are no flights 5th, 6th and 9th of May and connection is ceased from May 12th till Sep 22nd. Effective from Sep 23rd there are four weekly flights (Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun) by end of October.
SmartWings originally expected daily flight for full summer season. During SmartWings service break, non-stop daily service is provided by Emirates and 4x weekly by FlyDubai.
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Three Travel Service (TVS) Boeings 737-800 (OK-TSA, OK-TVO a OK-TVX) are about to leave next week to India for two months. New lessor is SpiceJet sending them from Delhi to national (Bangalore, Chennai, Lokpriya) and regional (Dubai) destinations. Another frame (OK-TVU) is returning from lease at Oman Air with last scheduled flight March 31st. TVS is strengthening presence at Slovak market. Current fleet, Airbus A320 (OM-HCA), will be enhanced by Boeing 737-800 (OM-TSG) that is going to be reregistered from the Czech Republic.
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Wizz Air is going to change the Rome airport for Prague flights since March 31st. All the three weekly flights move from Fiumicino to Ciampino, 12 km south-east from the city centre. That might be a slight advantage against the other Prague-Rome carriers (CSA, SmartWings, easyJet, Vueling Airlines and Alitalia) as their destination Fiumicino lies 35 km from the centre. The departure from Prague moves from 09:40 to 14:40 from the commencing of the summer timetable. Traditionally, Wizz Air uses both Rome airports, Ciampino hosts the Romanian routes and flights from Kishinew in Moldova, On the other hand, the Katowice route will move from Ciampino to Fiumicino.
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