The Boeing 737-900ER registred OK-TSM (production number 34952, manufactured 2007) flew from Prague to Yanbu in Saudi Arabia on December 30, 2025. Since the beginning of the year, it has been acting as one of the support aircraft for the famous Dakar Rally, which is held in this country. Smartwings aircraft have been accompanying the race for six years.
In an interview given to the Garáž.cz website last year, the captain of the Boeing 737 Jan Šťastný, who is supporting the Dakar Rally for the second year, revealed several interesting facts about the flights. He told the magazine how they landed at the airport in Shubait in 2024, which belonged to the Aramco oil company a few years ago. "This year we're in for another challenge. It's a bit of a wilderness, it's not a standard airport with air traffic control, so we follow different procedures. And if anything happens there, it's a problem because you can't get anywhere. There's no cell phone signal or backup system used at re...
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- 2025-12-22 06:09
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The Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air will launch direct flights from Rome to Košice next spring. Rome will be the third destination from Košice that the carrier offers direct flights to. It also flies to London (Luton) and Bratislava. In Rome, the planes will land at the main Fiumicino airport.
The service will start on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Wizz Air will offer two flights a week, every Tuesday and Saturday.
Rome–Fiumicino is one of Wizz Air's backbone bases. In the winter 2025/2026 flight schedule, Wizz Air offers direct flights from the airport to 31 destinations in 21 countries. It has fourteen of its Airbus A320 series aircraft based at the base there
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easyJet will open a new route from Prague next year. The orange planes will fly twice a week to Newcastle in the UK. The first flight is scheduled to take place on Sunday, August 2, 2026. The carrier will also offer Thursday flights.
Low-cost carrier easyJet has grown a lot in Prague in the last few years. The current timetable shows flights connecting Prague with twenty destinations (Bordeaux, Naples, Nantes, Glasgow, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Belfast, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, London (Gatwick), London (Luton), Amsterdam, Basel, Geneva, Lyon, Milan (Malpensa), Nice, Porto, and Lisbon).
Despite serving more than twenty destinations from Prague, easyJet does not plan to open a base at the airport. The easyJet Group operates a fleet of 353 Airbus A320 family aircraft. The average age of easyJet aircraft is 11 years.
Currently, Jet2 isthe only company flying on the Prague-Newcastle route. It flies twice a week, every Monday and Friday.
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- 2025-12-04 06:05
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In two weeks, a Turkish carrier AJet plane will land at Prague Airport for the first time on a new regular route from Istanbul (Sabiha Gökçen) airport. Starting next summer, the Turks have decided to connect Prague with another destination.
AJet planes will head to Milas-Bodrum airport, which serves two cities with a population of 100,000, Bodrum and Milas. The airport is often used by tourists. In winter, you cannot get there by direct flight from Prague, and in summer, only by Smartwings charter flights. AJet will fly regularly on the route from June 29, 2026, once a week. It will fly Boeing 737-800s.
AJet, formerly AnadoluJet, has its home base at Sabiha Gökçen airport in Istanbul. It will connect the Czech capital with four flights a week, every Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They will face competition from Pegasus Airlines, which flies the same route twice a day.
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- 2025-12-03 06:02
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The Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air is convinced that there are still not enough new routes announced to be opened from Bratislava so far.
First, it is worth remembering where Wizz Air currently flies from Bratislava: Skopje, London (Luton), Bucharest, Barcelona, Lamezia Terme, Plovdiv, Varna, Málaga and Košice. Nine destinations.
It has now started selling tickets from Bratislava to Kutaisi in Georgia and Yerevan in Armenia. It will fly to Yerevan twice a week, every Tuesday and Saturday, from January 13, 2026. To Kutaisi from January 12, 2026, 3 times a week, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Next year in April, Wizz Air is to fly from Bratislava to 29 destinations. These are Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, Dortmund, EuroAirport, Yerevan, Chisinau, Košice, Kutaisi, Larnaca, London (Luton), Lamezia Terme, Málaga, Naples, Niš, Oslo (Gardermoen), Ohrid, Plovdiv, Palermo, Pristina, Rome (Fiumicino), Skopje, Tirana, Tel Aviv, Tuzla, Varna and Warsaw.
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- 2025-11-16 08:23
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The Spanish airline World2Fly has been operating long-haul flights for Czech travel agencies for the third year now. Departures are currently planned from Prague airport only. The long-haul Airbus A330-300 flies to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and to the Vietnamese island of Phu Quoc.
The Airbus A330-300 does not fly to Vietnam directly. Czech tourists have to take a technical stopover in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates on their way from vacation. Last year, only the Slovak passengers had to undergo this process, as an Airbus A350-900 flew from Prague to Phu Quoc, handling the...
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- 2025-10-31 12:18
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On Tuesday, October 21, 2025, a Boeing 777F registred B-227W (serial number 42230, manufactured 2013) of the Chinese Central Airlines landed at Katowice Airport. It was the inaugural flight of a new regular cargo service from Chengdu to Katowice. The new flight will operate three to five times a week. The long-haul Boeing will take about nine hours to travel from China. The Boeing with registration B-227W has a special Cargo City Katowice Airport sticker on its fuselage to mark the launch of the new flight. Central Airlines also flies from Chengdu to Prague.
This is further success of Katowice Airport in the field of air cargo transport. This spring, Lufthansa Cargo launched the Frankfurt - Katowice route, which is flown twice a week by its Airbus A321 cargo aircraft. Cargo aircraft of international logistics and courier companies FedEx, UPS and DHL also depart from the airport every weekday.
From January to the end of September 2025, 32,554 tons of cargo were han...
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- 2025-10-31 06:16
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Ryanair's new routes from Bratislava are in operation from Sunday. The Irish low-cost carrier is now flying to Alicante, Barcelona, Malaga, Lamezia Terme, Naples, Palermo and Athens.
The airline will offer direct flights to 23 destinations in winter. In addition to the new ones, it will continue to fly to Charleroi, Paphos, Thessaloniki, Dublin, Alghero, Bari, Dalaman, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, London (Stansted), Manchester, Milan (Malpensa), Rome (Ciampino), Trapani, Lanzarote and Malta.
Tickets from Bratislava to Pisa, Italy are also available oorm now. This is a new Ryanair route for the summer 2026 flight schedule. Its operation will start on Monday, March 30 and it will fly every Monday and Thursday.
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- 2025-10-30 14:16
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The south of Spain is at the peak of its popularity. Ryanair has been introducing direct flights to Malaga from four Czech airports and Bratislava during the past few years. From spring, you can also get to Malaga on a direct Ryanair flight from Košice and Katowice.
The regular Katowice – Malaga route will start operating on Friday, April 3, 2026 and will operate twice a week (every Monday and Friday). The Hungarian Wizz Air already flies between the two cities twice a week as well.
Košice does not have a direct service to Malaga yet. Ryanair will fly there for the first time on Thursday, April 2, 2026. The FR4766/7 route will operate twice a week, every Monday and Thursday.
The Irish low-cost airline launched direct flights to Malaga from Pardubice and Bratislava this weekend. It also flies there from Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Krakow and Vienna all year round.
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- 2025-10-24 12:21
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easyJet, founded by Greek-Cypriot entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou in 1995, will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its first flight this year. During this time, it has grown from zero to the second largest low-cost airline in Europe. It is now preparing to open its first base in Africa.
easyJet's first African base will be in Morocco. It will be based at the airport in Morocco's fourth largest city, Marrakech, where it has been operating for a long time.
In the summer 2025 flight schedule, it operates routes to Marrakech from Lisbon, Porto, Malaga, Naples, Milan (Malpensa), Nice, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes, Paris (CDG), Geneva, EuroAirport, Amsterdam, London Gatwick, Luton and Southend airports, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh. It offers a total of 22 destinations from Marrakech by direct flight.
It is establishing a base with the arrival of the summer 2026 flight schedule. Thanks to this, it will open new routes Marrakech - Hamburg, Marrakech - Stras...
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