July 2010 saw a slight year-on-year decrease by 1,8 % in numbers of passengers handled at Prague Airport: 1 289 152. The number of aircraft movements declined by 6,4 % to the total of 14 998. While passenger volumes (1 055 819) in the scheduled air traffic remained at the same level when compared with July 2009, the numbers in the charter segment fell by more than 9 % to 233 333. Greece was the country where the biggest number of passengers headed to and from in the first month of summer holiday...
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Engine fire caught Slovak B737-400 a few minutes before passenger disembarkation at Kos airport today morning. The local rescue services extinguished fire quickly, however all 169 passengers and 7 crew members of AirExplore flight from Verona has to disembarked via inflatable slides. No one was injured, all remaining flights (Kos - Milan - Kos - Verona) this OM-AEX registered aircraft are cancelled for today.
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Czech lowcost carrier SmartWings will go ahead with two new scheduled flights from Prague. Amsterdam Schiphol (2x daily) and Bucharest Henri Coanda are on offer from 31.10.2010
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Czech Airlines will terminate ACMI lease of two Saab 340s from Central Connect Airlines (JOB Air) at the end of October. 33 seat aircraft operated by CSA some of Prague - Brno and Prague - Ostrava flights from October 2008, together with international service to Warsaw and Ljubljana later on.
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Ryanair launched its Bratislava schedule for the winter season 2010/11 (31.10.2010-26.03.2011). It will operate 14 routes including disputes service to/from Stockholm Skavsta and Alicante (both remaining 2x weekly). There will be increase on two routes: Brusel Charleroi (4 to 5 weekly) and Bergamo (5 to 7 weekly). Less flights affecting London Stanstedu (14 to 11 per week), Dublin (5 to 4), Edinburgh (4 to 2), Liverpool (3 to ...
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Czech Airlines confirmed changes in winter operating network, abandoned London - Heathrow, Manchester, Cologne, Munich, Brno, Marseille, Thessaloniki and Venice. The airline hopes for return to last 3 mentioned in summer season 2011. There are reductions on some others routes too, Bologna, Bratislava, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Oslo, Ostrava, Stuttgart, Vilnius and Zurich included.
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A Filair 9Q-CCN registered Let 410 on route via Bandundu to Kinshasa crashed near Bandundu (western part of Democratic Republic of Congo) airport today. 20 bodies had been recovered from the crash site, one person is in critical situation in the hospital. L410 had gone around, turned and impacted a house at the edge of the city. This ex ES-LLB Airest L410 is well known from Silver Air operated
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Lufthansa is introducing a new rotation between Frankfurt and Prague on 31.10.2010. The sixth daily LH1404/5 flight will operate at times Frankfurt 10:40 - Prague 11:40/12:20 - Frankfurt 13:35.
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The fourth ex CSA B737-400 for UTair Aviation landed in c/s of new Russian owner in Prague today at 20:20. There are no B737-400 in Czech Airlines colours any more. The remaining OK-FGR and OK-FGS (for UTair as well) are all white already, painted the same as OK-WGY and OK-WGX (for Holidays Czech Airlines). Fresh painted OK-EGP (to be VQ-BIE) will join trio ...
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Ryanair announced that it will open a new three-weekly (Mo, We, Sa) service from Bergamo to Brno, which will commence on 01.11.2010. The Brno traffic will raise with increase of current 4 weekly flights from London Stansted to daily at the same time.
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