Prague Airport is planning to open more direct flights to North America and Asia, including Chicago (USA), Vietnam and India.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Prague Airport served regarding 65% of international arrivals to and from the Czech Republic. However, during the pandemic, operations at this airport have become stagnant due to a serious drop in passenger numbers. Prague Airport is looking to open more direct flights to North America and Asia.
Prague Airport is negotiating a new route to Newark with United Airlines of the United States, and is also negotiating with its competitor, American Airlines, regarding restoring flights to Philadelphia.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Prague Airport, Mr. Jiri Pos, said that Prague Airport is in discussion with American partners regarding the project. beeline connecting Prague with Chicago. Besides, Prague Airport also wants to resume direct flights to Canada, specifically to Toronto and Montreal, with potential partners Air Canada and Air Transat.
Prague Airport is also very interested in direct flights to Asia, of which the shortest route is to China with destinations in Beijing and Shanghai, with partners China Eastern Airlines and Hainan Airlines.
The Czech side hopes that these routes can be operated as soon as 2023. However, this depends on a number of other factors, including the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic in China.
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In addition, according to Pos, Prague Airlines is also negotiating with three Indian airlines, with potential connection points being Mumbai and the capital New Delhi. Prague Airport also wants to launch a direct flight from Prague to Vietnam through cooperation with Vietnam Airlines or Bamboo Airlines, while also planning to negotiate with Qatar Airlines next February regarding the direct Prague-Doha route.
Mr. Pos also announced that Prague Airport is still negotiating with Eznis Airlines to open a direct flight from Prague to Mongolia, because the Czech Republic has the largest Mongolian community in Europe. In the context that the job market in the Czech Republic is opening up, this will be a good opportunity to start implementing exchange activities between Prague and Ulaanbaatar.
Finally, according to Mr. Pos, Prague Airport is also in talks to open direct flights to Tokyo (Japan) or Singapore. These are all promising projects for the years 2024 and 2025, while in 2023, the Airport will open a number of new direct flights, including a route from Prague to Seoul (Korea).
In addition, the head of Prague airport also revealed that Prague Airport will cooperate with airlines air Europe opens new routes from Prague to many parts of Europe, such as with Cyprus Airlines to Larnaca of Cyprus, with IcelandAir to Keflavik of Iceland, with EasyJet to Lisbon (Portugal), with Eurowings to Rhodes and with Rimini to Skiathos (Greece), with Ryanair to Gdansk (Poland) or with Vueling airline to Bilbao (Spain).
Ngoc Long (VNA/Vietnam+)
