- 2026-05-25 13:38
- Changes in routes
On Saturday, May 23, a Boeing 737-800, registration TC-SOG (production number 61179, year of manufacture 2017), of SunExpress, made a ceremonial landing at Ostrava Airport at 2:02 p.m, arriving from Antalya, Turkey. The Turkish airline has included Leoš Janáček Airport on its map of regular destinations for the first time. The new Ostrava – Antalya route will operate twice a week, flying every Wednesday and Saturday.
The new route offers passengers a great alternative to Smartwings, which flies to Antalya four times a week, if we count only those flights for which it is possible to buy tickets on the airline's website. Should we also include charter flights for travel agencies, the number of flights of the Czech airline would be significantly higher.
SunExpress commercial flights are returning to Ostrava after 26 years. Charter flights of the Turkish carrier have been landing at Ostrava airport since 2000. And SunExpress aircraft themselves have been at home in Ostrava for the past f...
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- 2026-05-25 06:16
- Changes in routes
Starting from October, it will be possible to travel from Prague to the capital of Vietnam without transfer. The Vietnamese low-cost carrier VietJetAir will start flying to Prague Airport. Its long-haul Airbus A330-300s will land at Ruzyne on a regular route from Hanoi via Almaty. The carrier is not selling tickets yet.
VietJetAir will operate the new route twice a week – on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The route will initially operate with a stopover in the Kazakh city of Almaty, and passengers will also be able to purchase tickets for the Prague – Almaty section and back. According to the flight schedule, the plane will take off from Hanoi at 8:45 a.m. and, after a stopover in Almaty, will land on the runway of Prague Airport at 6:30 p.m. It will depart from Prague at 8:30 p.m. with another stopover in Almaty and arrival in Hanoi the following day at 4:45 p.m. Vietjet Air will deploy an Airbus A330-300 aircraft with a total capacity of 377 passengers on the route.
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- 2026-05-18 06:05
- Changes in routes
EasyJet has decided to fill a gap in the Prague market. No carrier currently flies directly to Hamburg, Germany now. The British low-cost carrier will launch the new route with the arrival of the winter 2026/2027 flight schedule.
The new route will operate twice a week, every Monday and Friday. The inaugural flight will take place on Monday, October 26, 2026. This is the second new route for easyJet, which announced a new route to Marrakech last month.
The current offer of easyJet destinations from Prague with direct flights in the summer 2026 flight schedule looks like this: Alicante, Amsterdam, Basel, Belfast, Birmingham, Bordeaux, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lisbon, Liverpool, London (Gatwick), London (Luton), Lyon, Manchester, Milan (Malpensa), Nantes, Naples, Nice, Porto, Geneva. A total of 21 destinations.
The carrier recently canceled its route to Mallorca, where it faced stiff competition from Smartwings, Ryanair and Eurowings.
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Last fall, the ČEDOK travel agency announced that its clients would be flying from regional airports in the Czech Republic with Air 001 as carrier. The turning point was the 2024 summer season, during which not even half of Smartwings charters departed on time. That carrier was ČEDOK's key carrier at the time. The Blue-Style agency first reached an agreement with the Ukrainian SkyLine Express and the Turkish MGA, later exchanging the Ukrainians for the Romanian HelloJets. Čedok has now started to rely on the Bulgarians.
Air 001 is a brand of the Bulgarian airline Electra Airways. During the summer season, it will serve more than 280 thousand transported clients. The Air 001 fleet has grown by three Airbus A320s (LZ-EAK, LZ-EAL and LZ-EAN) ahead of its strongest season. Two of them headed to new bases in the Czech Republic.
On Sunday, April 26, 2026, an empty Airbus A320 with registration LZ-EAN (production number 3014, year of manufacture 2007) arrived from Varna to Brno. The first c...
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Smartwings operated three of its aircraft on the routes of the Saudi low-cost carrier flynas last winter. The OK-TVY, OK-TSS and OK-TST Boeing planes were based at the airport in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Flynas was deploying them on routes to Egypt and Turkey from December 2025 until the end of last month. All three aircraft returned home to Prague on Tuesday, May 5. They flew in the hybrid flynas colors in Saudi Arabia.
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On Monday, April 6, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 of Smartwings, registered OK-SWM, landed in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan is one of nine places that the 64 participants of the Round the World Tour will see in 26 days. They will also visit Barbados, Brazil - Amazonia, Chile, Bolivia, Easter Island, the Cook Islands, Australia, Palau, Taiwan, and originally Oman. Due to the escalation of the situation in the Persian Gulf, the last destination was changed and instead of Oman, the participants of the tour will stop in Thailand.
The first Round the World Tour was held in 2012 and has since become an integral part of each subsequent spring. In 2020, passengers were supposed to fly on Air X Charter's Airbus A340 instead of the Boeing 737, but the upcoming pandemic prevented their trip. The travel agency returned to its original carrier in 2023. The 2026 year is the third when Boeing 737 MAX is used.
Smartwings reconfigures its Boeing before each Round the W...
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- 2026-03-25 06:00
- Changes in routes
From March 24, 2026, the type on the regular EK139/140 route from Dubai to Prague to Dubai has been changed. Emirates is replacing the currently used Airbus A380 with a smaller Boeing 777-300ER. The first day of the change, the aircraft registered A6-EGJ (production number 38989, year of manufacture 2011) was flying the route.
The carrier will offer 310 seats in Economy, 42 in Business and eight in First Class.
Emirates is facing a dramatic decline in demand due to the ongoing conflict. Some flights to Dubai are only minimally booked, which illustrates the extent of disruption and the challenges associated with restoring the network.
Prague Airport has previously hosted Emirates Boeing 777s on regular flights from Dubai. This type operated the route until the end of November 2024. From December 1, 2024, it was replaced by a Superjumbo.
The route to Dubai was opened in July 2010. Since May 2016, it has been regularly operated by an Airbus A380. Emirates used to fly to Prague u...
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- 2026-03-24 06:00
- Changes in routes
The Czech carrier Smartwings opened a number of new regular routes last fall. With the winter flight schedule, it expanded its route network by 7 new destinations: Toulouse, Bilbao, Brussels, Barcelona, Porto, Bucharest and Rome. At the same time, it increased the frequencies to Paris and Malaga.
The Prague – Malaga route now flies 12 times a week, and from the new flight schedule it will be available even more often, twice a day. Smartwings will operate daily to Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Valencia and Rome (Fiumicino).
The Prague – Bilbao, Prague – Porto and Prague – Toulouse routes will operate twice a week.
During the summer flight schedule 2026, Smartwings will offer direct flights from Prague to eighty destinations.
Among the interesting features, the return of charter flights to the Greek island of Skyros is confirmed. This year, direct flights for the Brenna travel agency will be provided by Airbus A220-300s in the colors of Czech Airlines.
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- 2026-02-26 06:03
- Changes in routes
The announcements of new routes from the Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air from Bratislava are endless.
As always, it is first worth remembering where Wizz Air currently flies from Bratislava: Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Bucharest, Chisinau, EuroAirport (Basel/Mulhouse), Košice, Kutaisi, Lamezia Terme, Larnaca, London (Luton), Málaga, Naples, Nis, Oslo (Gardermoen), Palermo, Plovdiv, Skopje, Varna, Yerevan. Twenty destinations.
In January, it started selling tickets from Bratislava to Nice on the French Riviera. And tickets to Podgorica in Montenegro are now also on sale. The inaugural flight will take off on Thursday, May 21, 2026. The company will fly to Montenegro 3 times a week.
This June, Wizz Air is scheduled to fly from Bratislava to 31 destinations. These are Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, Chisinau, Dortmund, EuroAirport, Košice, Kutaisi, Lamezia Terme, Larnaca, London (Luton), Malaga, Naples, Nice, Niš, Ohrid, Oslo (Gardermoen), Palermo, P...
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- 2026-02-25 12:39
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In 2025, Katowice airport achieved its best results in history. It recorded record results in total passenger traffic, both in scheduled and charter traffic. It handled 7,299,085 passengers. The forecast expects the airport to handle approximately 7.9 million passengers for the entire year of 2026. This will be helped by four new routes of the two main low-cost carriers operating at Katowice Airport.
The Hungarian Wizz Air has added one more aircraft to its Katowice base two times within the last 12 months. The sixth in June 2025, the seventh in the autumn. It is then adding an eighth plane for the summer of 2026 and will open, in addition to the previously announced routes (Dubrovnik, Ohrid, Rijeka, Rimini and Varna), also new flights to Comiso in Sicily. The pink carrier will then serve 31 destinations from Katowice.
Wizz Air flew from Katowice to 25 destinations in fifteen countries during the summer 2025 flight schedule. Namely to...
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