Spanish Volotea Airlines announced fifth connection from Prague. Flights V7 2094/5 will connect Prague with Toulouse from March 25th twice per week (Monday and Friday) with change to Monday and Thursday from May 26th. Prague had direct connection in the past with Toulouse with Vueling Airlines (summer 2011) and Air France (summer 2012 and 2014).
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Airport Brno announced today finishing negotiations with BMI regional on new connection to Munich. Flights from Brno to second largest Luftahnsa hub will be operated by british BMI Regional. The service start is scheduled this year (2015) using Embraer 145. Lufthansa will put their code to this connection, so it creates better connection from Moravia region to Lufthansa network (today's best current practice is few hours traveling to Prague or Vienna). Brno airport is also trying to get other new connections namely Roma, Milano, Paris, Barcelona and new location in UK. Brno was connected to Munich in year 2005-2007, service was provided by Cirrus Airlines.
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OK-TSF and OK-TVX registered Travel Service aircrafts departed from Prague to Delhi today evening. Both B737-800s are going to enter SpiceJet service on ACMI lease in next days (e.g. to Agartala, Delhi, Dubai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai or Visakhapatnam). Third, OK-TVK, will follow next week.
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Volotea Airlines is extending their service to Prague for summer season 2016. Flights V7 2536/7 Marseille - Prague - Marseille will be operated Monday and Friday from March 25th till June 17th, then changed to Monday and Thrusday after June 20th. Volotea Boeings 717-200 are welcomed visitors by local spotter community in Prague. Volotea started their flights to Prague in 2012 from Nantes, flights from Venice and Bordeaux were added for summer season 2015.
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Air Cairo is planning weekly service from Prague to Marsa Alam, effectivelly from November 1st 2015. Flights are planned every Sunday, departure from Marsa Alam 06:00 - Prague 10:30/11:30 - Marsa Alam 16:00 (all time local). Flight time of Airbus A320-200 is 4 hours and 30 minutes. Tickets are being sold on Air Cairo website, price starts at 8 617 CZK.
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After leave Prague - Roma, easyJet is opening a new connection in between Prague and Venice (Marco Polo Airport). This route seems to be focused on leisure passengers and will be operated three times per week (Tue, Thu, Sat) effective Feb 4th 2016. Flight time is 1 hour and 25 mins.
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Travel Service has agreed on an ACMI leasing of one of their Boeing 737-800s to VLM Airlines for the 2015/16 winter season. The aircraft will be based in Brussels. VLM have ordered SSJ100 LRs, however the first two planes planned for 2015 are now expected be delivered in 2016 only.
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CSA Czech Airlines plan ACMI lease two of their A319s to their SkyTeam partner, Saudi Arabian Airlines. OK-OER and OK-PET are scheduled to leave Prague on Oct 1st, 2015 and to enter service with Saudia on Oct 5th, 2015 after the necessary documents are issued. The planes are currently being painted into the SkyTeam scheme at Ostrava.
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Four pilots and three parachutists perished this morning when two Dubnica Air L-410s (OM-ODQ and OM-SAB) crashed climbing off the Slavnica airfield. There were 17 parachutists on each plane, most of them managed to escape the planes and suffered minor injuries. The airshow has been cancelled.
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Prague welcomes a new scheduled cargo operator. From today (08/03/2015) Ukraine International Cargo took a TNT service in between Prague and Liege. Boeing 737-300F operates service Kiev Borispol - Prague - Liege Monday to Friday in evenings, flying back next day in the morning. Stop-over in Prague is in same time as TNT service (21:50-22:50 and 05:50-06:35 local time). Ukraine International Cargo is selling additional capacity on top of transporting TNT cargo on Prague - Kiev route.
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