Air France-KLM is very pleased with the announcement made by the Czech Minister of Finance, Miroslav Kalousek, according to which the Air France KLM Group has been chosen to take part in the second round of the privatization process of the Czech airline, CSA. Air France-KLM intends to continue to cooperate with the Czech Authorities concerned. The second chosen participant in CSA privatization is Czech companies Unimex Group and Travel Service conglomerate.
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BH Airlines will introduce 4x weekly (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday) Sarajevo - Prague - Sarajevo flights on 18.05.2009. Their ATR72 will be flying to Prague in morning times (arrival to Prague 09:40 on Monday, 11:00 rest of the days, leaving back 65 minutes later).
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Polish LOT will add third daily Warsaw - Prague rotation on Wednesday and Friday effective 03.06.2009 (except of 10. and 12.06.). The Embraer 145 and Embraer 170 will serve the middle of the day Warsaw 12:35 - Prague 13:50/14:30 - Warsaw 15:45 flights.
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Embraer named ABS Jets as its authorized sales representative in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. ABS Jets is also an Embraer authorized service center and with 5 pieces one of the largest Legacy 600 operators in Europe. The Czech company will be selling Embraer’s full Executive Jets portfolio - Phenom 100, Phenom 300, Legacy 450, Legacy 500, Legacy 600 a Lineage 1000.
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US President, Mr. Barack Obama, visited Czech Republic on 04.-05.04.2009. You can download and see video of arrival presidental Boeing 747-200 (Air Force One) to RWY 24 here (2m53s, 22MB, wmv format).
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Trade Air has resumed 5 times weekly cargo operations between Zagreb and Ljubljana with L-410.
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In February 2009, Prague Airport welcomed 616 101 passengers, representing a decrease of 20,31 % compared to February 2008. The airport recorded 10 871 movements, showing a decline of 13,55 %, which confirms the trend of capacity reductions that airlines are forced to make in response to the falling demand for air traffic. The highest reduction of traffic was experienced in the low cost and charter segments with 27,6 %, respectively 25,3 % less passengers when compared with the same period last ...
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Bmibaby will launch a new route from Belfast to Prague, and the airline will be the only low cost airline operating this route, after Jet2 (03.03.2008) and easyJet (11.01.2009) ceased this service. Three weekly flights on Monday, Friday and Sunday start on 4 December 2009.
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Shortly before 5pm local time PZL M28 of Polish Navy has crashed while approaching Babie Doly airport in Gdynia. All four crew members died in the accident. The aircraft, serial no 1007, was performing a training flight and the accident occurred during attempt of landing with one engine inoperative.
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The LOT Polish Airlines' board of managers has taken decision to close down loss making subsidiary Centralwings. The parent company will take over all remaining destinations of Centralwings as well as some of its Boeing 737 aircraft. Centralwings was the operational brand of Nowy Przewoznik, a company founded in 2004 by LOT to conduct low cost and charter flights. Last year Centralwings ceased all scheduled (low cost) flights ...
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