Got European travel plans this summer? Don’t forget to pack your passport, sunscreen and plenty of patience. After two years of pandemic restrictions, travel demand has roared back, but airlines and airports that slashed jobs during the depths of the COVID-19 crisis are struggling to keep up. With the busy summer tourism season underway in Europe, passengers are encountering chaotic scenes at airports, including lengthy delays, canceled flights and headaches over lost luggage. Schiphol, the Netherlands’ busiest airport, is trimming flights, saying there are thousands of airline seats per day above the capacity that security staff can handle. Dutch carrier KLM apologized for stranding passengers there this month. London’s Gatwick and Heathrow airports are asking airlines to cap their flight numbers. Discount carrier easyJet is scrapping thousands of summer flights to avoid last-minute cancellations and in response to caps at Gatwick and Schiphol. North American airlines wrote to Ireland’s transport chief demanding urgent action to tackle “significant delays” at Dublin’s airport. Nearly 2,000 flights from major continental European airports were canceled one week this month, with Schiphol accounting for nearly 9%, according to data from aviation consultancy Cirium. A further 376 flights were canceled from U.K. airports, with Heathrow accounting...
The unique team race UniCredit Prague Relay is back after three years. The popular run, in which friends or colleagues can measure their strength against others over four five-kilometer stretches in the Stromovka Park, will start on Thursday 23 June at 6 p.m. at the Prague Exhibition Center. “We are delighted that the UniCredit Prague Relay is coming back after the pandemic and we can get Prague running again without limitations,” says Carlo Capablo, President of the RunCzech organizing team. There are the traditional Open categories for bankers, businessmen and diplomats again, and the category of medical professionals has been newly expanded, including the corps of the integrated rescue system as well. “I am really glad that we have the honour to be the title partner of the popular team race Prague Relay, which is returning to the capital city after three years. It’s great that after a challenging period we can meet and welcome hundreds of enthusiastic runners again,” said Tomáš Drábek, Head of Retail Banking at UniCredit Bank. The sports presenter Jiří Ježek also put together his team. “The relay gives running a great charge of team spirit. I am looking forward to it every year! Everyone can do five km...
Just five years ago, enthusiasts from the non-profit organization Prague Center began to revive the disused Kasárna Karlín (Karlín Barracks) complex in the center of Prague. The unique space, used for cultural and social events, is preparing a special program for its fifth anniversary. The celebrations will take place from 22 to 26 June 2022. “We’ll have an outdoor stage and a number of concerts and other accompanying programs,” says one of its organizers, Matěj Velek. On the last weekend of June, bands like Kill The Dandies, The Atavists, and Orient will play, as well as the Prague Conservatory String Orchestra and Anna Vaverková. “In five years, we have built a unique place, which offers concerts and a cinema, but also a stylish cafe, beach volleyball, a sauna, and a playground. We are a cultural oasis for everyone and the birthday program affirms that,” describes Matěj. The modern history of the Karlín Barracks began in the spring of 2017 when the Prague Center took over the space. It brought a rich cultural and social program to the unused space of the classicist military barracks. Hundreds of thousands of visitors, be they students, parents, children, or seniors, have attended hundreds of screenings,...
Passengers can now pay for a sightseeing ride in one of the oldest trams via one of the most modern mobile terminals. The historic tram line number 42, operated by Prague City Tourism, transports tourists to and from popular Prague sights. Passengers can now pay for the ticket via the mobile payment card acceptance application from the Global Payments service provider. They can pay even in cryptocurrencies. Petr Soukup, Director of IT at Prague City Tourism, adds: “We see the introduction of mobile terminals as a big step forward. The terminals will significantly speed up the ticket purchase process and at the same time provide tourists with a more convenient payment alternative. Unlike cash, almost everyone has a credit card with them.” Future payments “Cryptocurrencies are a very popular source of money today. There is no reason why people should not use them for regular payments. They can now pay for a ticket with a piece of bitcoin or, for example, Ethereum,” adds Soukup. A huge advantage of Global Payments and GoCrypto is that the customer pays in the crypto, but the merchant can choose whether to accept payment in cryptocurrency or in a traditional currency, such as Czech crowns....
Twice a week, on Tuesdays and Sundays, Jazeera Airways is to transport passengers between Prague and Kuwait. The direct air connection between the two countries will thus make Prague available to a part of the Persian Gulf with considerable inbound tourism potential. “A direct route to Kuwait will provide Czech tourists with easy access to this interesting country, famous for its cosmopolitan character, or it can serve as a transfer point for flights to more distant destinations, such as India. Alongside Prague, travelers from Kuwait may find the West Bohemian spa triangle attractive, included on the UNESCO World Heritage List last year,” Jiří Pos, Chairman of the Prague Airport Board of Directors.” Jazeera Airways is Kuwait’s leading low-cost airline active in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, operating commercial and cargo flights from Terminal T5 at Kuwait International Airport. The airline services more than 50 popular destinations in the Middle East, Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe, which include highly sought-after business, leisure, and weekend destinations. “We are very pleased to launch this new service to Prague and the Czech Republic for the summer season, thus providing our customers with broader options of enjoying a holiday full of activities and...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. President Milos Zeman signed yesterday (June 22) into law an amendment dubbed “Lex Ukraine” tightening rules for providing support to Ukrainian refugees. The amendment on aid to refugees from the war-stricken Ukraine stipulates that the refugees who enjoy free accommodation, food and basic hygiene items will not receive the CZK 5,000-crown humanitarian aid. . The Prague City Hall has prepared special music, theatre as well as exhibitions and lectures on the occasion of the six-month Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union starting on July 1. The Prague streets will also see a “Eurotram” with a special posting design created by students. Monika Landmanova, a member of the European Commission (EC) Vice-President Vera Jourova’s cabinet, will lead the EC Representation in the Czech Republic as of July. Landmanova will work as the official representative of the EC in the Czech Republic under the leadership of Ursula von der Leyen. The board of the Czech National Bank has raised the key interest rate by 1.25 percentage points to 7 per cent, the...
The Czech government will earmark 66 billion crowns to help households and companies hit by soaring energy prices, Industry Minister Jozef Sikela said on Wednesday. Measures aimed at taming the price shock in the next winter heating season will include the state covering some “green energy” fees and giving subsidies to households, including a planned discount electricity rate subsidised by the state. Around two-thirds of the assistance will go to households, Sikela said. Moreover, the Czech state has prepared a website called the “Umbrella against Inflation” (Deštník proti drahotě) where it summarizes the aid available to different groups in the population due to price rises and will allocate approximately CZK 100 billion [EUR 4 billion] from the budget this year for the anti-inflation measures; the information portal was created to make the situation more transparent and to serve as a guide on how to claim eligibility for it. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala (Civic Democratic Party – ODS) announced the portal last week after the cabinet session. According to Fiala, the cabinet has had to deal with high prices and inflation from their onset at the end of last year and “the lavish behavior and policy of the previous Government had...
Nové Dvory and Palmovka in Prague 4, 12 and Prague 8 are expected to receive substantial development in the coming years. In the future, modern residential areas with multifunctional amenities could emerge from neglected areas. The Prague Development Company (PDC) is preparing a study that could see up to tens of thousands of Praguers could find housing in the two key districts. Rising Rents In Prague, housing has long been becoming increasingly unaffordable. Rents are rising astronomically, even when compared to rising wages. According to the international database Numbeo, the cost of acquiring housing in terms of local wages is more expensive in Prague than anywhere else in Europe. On top of that, many experts predict that private development in Prague will decline, at least in the near future, as rising inflation has made construction costs more expensive. These factors combine to make the development of new housing all the more critical for the Prague city government. Long Underdeveloped Palmovka has long stuck out like a sore thumb in Prague 8. While a busy transport hub, it also has long-neglected surroundings, much of which are still undeveloped, and the half-finished Nová Palmovka building, which was supposed to be Prague 8’s new town hall....
By 2025, 100 new high-speed chargers for electric cars will be built in Prague. Pražská energetika and Škoda Auto are jointly working to build them, following a memorandum of cooperation signed on Monday. In the Czech Republic, there are already more than 15,000 battery-powered or hybrid-electric cars, mainly concentrated in Prague. There are already around 2,000 recharge points available throughout the Czech Republic. Both parties to the memorandum have nominated representatives to a working group that will identify the locations where the construction of charging stations will have the greatest effect. By the end of 2025, approximately 200 charging points should each be built in the capital within a hundred HPC racks, each with an output of at least 150 kW. There are expectations that there could be as many as half a million electric cars in the country by 2030. The switch to electric vehicles will come with a larger government push to diversify its energy sources, and to move away from dependence on fossil fuels and towards renewable sources. Crunch time Major carmakers in Germany, South Korea and Japan — known as original equipment manufacturers or OEMs — are now making decisions about which production hubs to convert into...
A demonstration of the Romanian Folklore Costume will take place at Muzaion in Prague 5 – Banat, and Muscel, two of the most interesting ethnologic zones in Romania come in Prague. The Romanian Association in the Czech Republic, supported by the Romanian Institute of Culture organize between June 30 and July 3 The Days of Universal Romanian Blouse – a demonstration of old Romanian folklore costumes. The demonstration will take place at Muzaion – the Czech Ethnographic Museum where over 50 traditional costumes from Banat and Muscel zones are displayed. The event aims to demonstrate the ethnic identity and the historical and artistic value inherited by Romanians, and at the same time, the simplicity, spiritual wealth, imagination, beliefs, and hopes of Romanians who trespassed the borders over time. The event is organized in order to connect Romanian and Czech communities that are passionate about folklore garments. A folklore collection, Marius Matei Ethnographic Collection, combines a selection of over 30 pieces of garments from the XIX century combined based on old pictures of Banat people who used to wear traditional folk costumes. Every piece in this collection is masterfully embroidered using fine sewed technics, which predominates the floral and geometrical motives....
The Sunset Cinema was born in Ukraine in 2018 and the last summer it counted five cinema locations in Odesa and Kyiv on beaches and rooftops. This summer it was planned to open a new location in Kharkiv but the war changed everything. Today the new Sunset Cinema will be opened in Prague. “We show films in Czech and in their original language with subtitles. You can even choose your favorite type of seat: we offer soft puffs for the first three rows of comfortable pink loungers,” says one of the organizers. The Sunset Cinema is not only about watching movies. It’s an opportunity to meet with friends and watch everyone’s favorite films again in a cool space and experience the warm emotion of the last viewing one more time. People come here to watch the sunset, shoot cool stories to show to friends, and just relax. The location has its own map with an interactive entrance, bright photo points, a chill zone with board games and its own snack bar. The season officially kicks off today at 20:00 with the film 50 First Dates on the rooftop of Arkady Pankrac’s shopping mall. 50 First Dates is a 2004 American romantic comedy...
Sometimes it’s necessary to visit a bike service and there are lots of them in Prague. We highly recommend if you’re a keen cyclist to do so before and after the season. In spring, bike services will make sure that all the components are in good shape, they will inspect the wear of tires, chain, brake pads and other parts to make sure that your bike is ready for the season and you won’t have any unexpected surprises when planning your weekend ride or some other bike related activities. After the season, they will make sure that you have all your bearings greased, brakes bled, refilled sealant in the tires, and that the bike is in good shape to either continue riding into the winter or wait for the warmer days. There are certain things you can do yourself to lengthen the lifespan of your components. First and foremost, it’s necessary to keep the drivetrain in a good condition. Cleaning the chain, wiping it down after every ride, especially after a muddy one is a good start. In Czech, there is a saying: “cleanliness is half of health” and a similar can be said about bikes. Keeping your bike clean...
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