- 2024-09-10 13:02
- Changes in routes
Prague will once again enjoy direct flights to Canada as Air Canada is set to open a new route from Prague to Toronto in the spring of 2025. The service will operate three times a week—every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday—with the inaugural flight scheduled for June 6. The airline will deploy its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner for the AC934/5 route, which will be a seasonal connection running until the end of September.
Prague has lacked direct connections to Canada since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted travel. Previously, Air Canada Rouge operated flights to Toronto using Boeing 767s, while Air Transat served Montreal with Airbus A330s.
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- 2024-09-03 06:39
- Changes in routes
Wizz Air adds flights from London to Poprad. Starting with the winter schedule, Tuesday will be added to the current Thursday and Sunday flights and the route will be flown three times a week. The top frequency was four flights a day in the past.
Wizz Air has been cutting frequencies after 45 Airbus A320neo family aircraft needed to be grounded to fix the Pratt & Whitney engines faults. These planes start returning to the active fleet now, the first of the of the planes parked in Ostrava successfully returned to commercial flights last week.
Another possibility to fly from the Slovakian airport to London is offered by Ryanair. This company continues with two weekly flights to Stansted.
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- 2024-09-02 06:25
- Changes in routes
Ryanair’s presence in Kosice is substantial. At the moment, the Irish airline flies to London, Dublin, Zadar and Prague from there. The London route will however be reduced for the winter schedule, there will be four weekly flights to Stansted instead of five, further reduced to three weekly for January.
The Hungarian rival has chosen the other way as the current four Luton frequencies will be enhanced to six a week from November (five weekly from January).
Connection with London will be a daily routine in Kosice, except of Saturday.
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The last commercial flight of Czech Airlines (ÄŒSA) has been scheduled. The final journey will be flight OK767 from Paris to Prague, departing the Charles de Gaulle Airport at 20:15 and arriving in Prague at 21:55. This flight marks the end of an era, coinciding with the conclusion of the 2024 summer flight schedule. From the following day, Sunday, October 27, the winter flight schedule will take effect, but by then, ÄŒSA will no longer operate any routes. The Prague-Paris route will be taken over by Smartwings, as both carriers are part of the Smartwings Group.
Starting from October 27, 2024, when the winter flight schedule begins, Czech Airlines will undergo a significant change in its business model. Within the group’s holding structure, ČSA will transition to become the managing company with a majority stake in Smartwings. The operational flights for the entire group will be managed by Smartwings and its subsidiaries in Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary.
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- 2024-08-06 16:51
- Changes in routes
Ryanair is now selling tickets for flights from Pardubice to Alicante, Spain, for the winter schedule of 2024/25. As in the summer, the route will operate twice weekly. However, with the new schedule, the Thursday flight will move to Wednesday, while Sunday flights will remain unchanged.
Ryanair will not continue other routes from Czech regional airports to Spain in the winter schedule. Flights from Ostrava to Málaga and from Pardubice to Girona will be discontinued.
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- 2024-07-28 08:47
- Changes in routes
easyJet started to sell tickets for direct flights from Prague to Belfast, Birmingham and Liverpool.
The service to Belfast will start on November 2nd, 2024 and will operate twice a week (every Tuesday and Saturday). From November 13th, the orange planes will also fly to Birmingham twice a week (every Wednesday and Sunday). The service to Liverpool has its first flight set to October 28th.
easyJet flies to 14 destinations from Prague. Namely to Alicante, Amsterdam, Basel, Bristol, Edinburgh, Geneva, Lisbon, London (both Gatwick and Luton), Lyon, Mallorca, Manchester, Milan (Malpensa) and Porto. In October, flights to Nice and Naples will be opened.
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- 2024-07-10 07:23
- Changes in routes
On Tuesday afternoon, July 9, a Boeing 737-800 operated by Egyptair landed at Vaclav Havel Airport, marking the inaugural flight of the revived Prague–Cairo route. This route was last operated by Czech Airlines over a decade ago.
Direct flights from Cairo will now operate three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, using the Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
Several years ago, Egyptair attempted to operate Prague–Hurghada route, which ended unsuccessfully. For those flights, the airline used Airbus A220 aircraft, a type it now plans to phase out from its fleet.
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- 2024-07-03 12:36
- Changes in routes
Starting July 1, Qatar Airways is changing the aircraft type on its Prague–Doha route. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner has replaced the Airbus A330-300 for the afternoon flight QR292, which departs from Prague at 15:50. The morning flight QR290, departing at 10:00, will continue to be operated by the Airbus A320 without any changes.
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- 2024-06-26 07:52
- Changes in routes
This past weekend, Smartwings operated select flights using an Airbus A330-300. The aircraft, which seats 436 passengers, arrived empty at Prague's Václav Havel Airport on Friday afternoon. On Saturday, June 22, the plane, registered 9H-PTP, serviced charter flights to Hurghada and Djerba. On Sunday, it flew to Hurghada again and, after returning to Prague in the morning, departed for Düsseldorf at noon.
The Smartwings fleet currently consists of 53 aircraft: 3 Airbus A320s, 2 Boeing 737-700s, 36 Boeing 737-800s, 2 Boeing 737-900ERs, and 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8s. This count does not include Cessna aircraft from the sister carrier UGJet. Additionally, six Czech-registered aircraft are based in Cologne, operating on Eurowings routes throughout the summer. These are OK-TSE, OK-TSF, OK-TSO, OK-TVT, OK-TVU, and OK-TVV.
Recently, Smartwings has faced significant delays, with some passengers experiencing up to a day-long wait. In response, the carrier has opti...
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- 2024-06-25 16:52
- Changes in routes
Early Monday, June 24, an Airbus A330-300 of Hainan Airlines landed at Václav Havel Airport Prague. This inaugural flight marked the return of the Beijing–Prague route, which had been suspended during the pandemic. The first flight, HU 7937, took 9 hours and 21 minutes. Upon arrival, the aircraft was greeted with a ceremonial water salute.
Direct flights to Beijing will operate three times a week, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Hainan Airlines will regularly deploy its Airbus A330-300 aircraft on this route, of which it has twenty in its fleet.
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