On Saturday evening, for the first time this advent, the City of Prague (DPP) sent a fleet of festively decorated vehicles to the streets travelling to the Three Kings. Among them are the Škoda 15T For City tram No. 9401, the T3 tram No. 6921, the popular Mazačka and the Irisbus Citelis retrobus. This year, the cable car on Petřín also joined in, both cable cars to Petřín, including the upper station, have been decorated and Passengers can ride them on regular flights. In addition, DPP also decorated the historic two-axle Ringhoffer tram No. 2210 and the Museum of Public Transport. Together, all the vehicles are decorated with more than 13,000 lights, interior holiday decorations and special exterior stickers with winter and Christmas themes. The Christmas decoration of the DPP fleet began last Monday evening in the Motol depot. All the Christmas vehicles will run in Prague’s public transport until the Three Kings (until January 6, 2022.) Their current timetables can be found by passengers and public transport fans on the homepage of the DPP website.
Airline company PLAY is happy to announce its operations between Reykjavik and Prague starting in May 2022. PLAY will be operating two flights weekly between these destinations from May 5, 2022. PLAY is a new low-cost airline operating flights between Iceland and Europe. The Icelandic airline is based in Reykjavik’s Keflavík International Airport and started operations in June 2021. PLAY operates three new Airbus A320 neo aircraft. “The entry of PLAY airline is a good sign that the Czech market is still attractive for new carriers who perceive the potential of direct flights to / from Prague. Iceland has long been a popular destination for outbound tourism and the new line may also offer convenient connections to the US with transfer in Keflavík in the future,” Jaroslav Filip, Director of Prague Airport Aviation Business, said. Next year PLAY will fly to 23 destinations in Europe and in spring 2022 will begin its hub-and-spoke operations to the East Coast of North America, adding three more Airbus A320 aircraft to its fleet. This will open up the transatlantic part of PLAY´s operations, which means that people in Europe and North America can choose PLAY to travel over the Atlantic ocean. PLAY is based...
Since the new government restrictions have been introduced in the Czech Republic, involving the abolition of Christmas markets or restrictions on the opening hours of restaurants and bars, interest in New Year’s Eve stays in Prague has dramatically decreased. The operators of accommodation establishments and the Association of Hotels and Restaurants of the Czech Republic (AHR) reported that people have not been registering new reservations- they are instead waiting for the situation to develop. AHR President Václav Stárek says that the government should state as soon as possible what restrictions will apply at the end of the year. According to Stárek, after the declaration of a state of emergency, which applies until December 25, and new restrictions, there has been many booking cancellations, especially from abroad. The manager of the Bauer Hotel Group, Jakub Svačina, has recorded a decrease in reservations of tens of percent since the new restrictions were announced. “At present, there are no new reservations for New Year’s Eve, potential clients from abroad and the Czech Republic are certainly waiting for the restrictions,” added Ivana Peterková, CEO of Prague Hotels – Chateau St. Havel. Many in the hotel business are eagerly awaiting the announcement of the restrictions...
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. Czech foreign minister Jakub Kulhanek has condemned the Myanmar court’s verdict sentencing Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison. “This is another blow to democracy in Myanmar,” he said. Pakistani customs officers are filing an appeal against the release of Czech model Tereza Hlůšková, who was acquitted by the Lahore court in November of charges of heroin smuggling. Czech shopping malls and retailers offered over 30 locations for vaccination against Covid-19. There are currently five vaccination centers in operation in shopping centers, in Prague (Westfield Chodov and OC Černý Most), in Brno (Olympia), Ostrava (Forum Nová Karolina) and in Karlovy Vary (OC Varyada). “Dozens of kilometres of motorways a year should be built in the Czech Republic in the years to come”, the candidate for transport minister in the new government, Martin Kupka, told reporters on Monday. His priorities are the preparation and construction of high-speed railways and their connection to the European network. Rohlik.cz together with energy company E.ON is building its own network of charging stations. By 2022,...
Bolt will expand its fast grocery service to Sweden, Poland and the Czech Republic by January after entering the booming business of couriering drinks and snacks to users earlier this year. Bolt’s founder Markus Villig raised $600 million from investors in August in a bid to reposition the ride-hailing startup as a “super-app” covering taxis, scooters, short-term car rentals, food delivery, and now fast commerce. The Tallinn, Estonia-based startup already ships groceries via couriers in seven European countries but will expand further into Eastern Europe and Scandinavia in 2022. In the Czech Republic, Bolt will face competition from local rivals like Rohlik, and Wolt, which was acquired by DoorDash for $8.1 billion in November. Villig says Bolt would be able to build out its grocery delivery network faster and more efficiently, thanks to the infrastructure it already had in place to support ride-hailing and electric scooter hire. “It is much easier for us to add new products on top of that platform rather than building that all out from scratch,” says Villig, CEO and cofounder of Bolt. “So that is why from the outside it looks like we are expanding to so many countries at such a rapid pace—we would...
The Biden Administration announced a new international air travel policy that is stringent, consistent across the globe, and guided by public health. Starting on December 6, before boarding a flight to the United States, air travelers aged two and older, regardless of nationality or vaccination status, are required to show documentation of a negative viral test result taken within one day of the flight’s departure. You must show your negative result to the airline before you board your flight. That includes all travelers – U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (LPRs), and foreign nationals. Also, the mask requirement has been extended until March 18, 2022, for all flights, trains and buses in the US. Travel industry leaders say any restrictions should be placed on individual passengers — not entire countries. “We need to figure out how to balance not only the economy and the health concerns simultaneously, but we also need to think about making sure we still welcome international travelers here to the U.S.” Tori Emerson Barnes, Executive Vice President of Public Affairs and Policy, U.S. Travel Association, said. Right now, the U.S. has a travel ban on South Africa and several other southern African nations. But, officials say those bans are...
This year’s meteorological autumn in Prague’s Klementinum ranks among the ten percent warmest autumns in 247 years, according to monitoring conducted by the oldest Czech meteorological station. The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) stated on their website that the average temperature from the beginning of September to the end of November was 11.6 degrees Celsius, which is 1.8 degrees higher than the long-term average noted from 1775 to 2014. November alone recorded a temperature average at 6.3 degrees Celsius this year. “This autumn, with its average temperature, ranked 14th to 16th out of 247 previous autumns since 1775, so it comfortably made up ten percent of the warmest autumns in 247 years. Only about five percent of autumns were warmer than this year,” meteorologists said. The warmest autumn recorded in Klementinum so far was in 2006 with an average temperature of 13.2 degrees. The coldest autumn was measured in 1786 with an average temperature of 5.8 degrees Celsius. In November this year, the average monthly temperature in Klementinum reached 6.3 degrees. The deviation from the so-called normal from 1981 to 2010 was 0.9 degrees and compared to the long-term average of 1775 to 2014 when it was 1.9 degrees higher. This...
The future government said it will immediately cancel the current health ministry’s measures for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination from March 2022 for people over 60 and doctors, nurses and police officers as soon as it assumes power. It said it would do so immediately after it assumes power. “The future health minister will cancel this order, we do not agree with that,” said Marian Jurečka, leader of KDU-ČSL party (EPP) that is expected to be part of the future governing coalition. According to Jurečka, the current caretaker government has not used all the available tools to motivate people to get vaccinated. “We will not impose mandatory vaccination for specific age groups. Regarding certain professions, we want to hear from representatives of the unions,” Jurečka told Czech Television. The future government is worried that police officers, healthcare professionals and other crucial workers would quit their job rather than get vaccinated. Still, the caretaker government is convinced that such a step is necessary in the current situation. According to the current Social Affairs Minister Jana Maláčová, the plan of the future government to cancel the mandatory vaccination order is “boundless populism”. “In social services, vaccination against hepatitis is mandatory, but against COVID, it...
The unexpected move to close Christmas markets just as most were about to open has sparked a very negative reaction. However, there are still places around the city where you can, not only have legally a mulled wine or grog, but also enjoy an authentic Christmas atmosphere. For example, markets are still operating on Wenceslas Square under the horse. The Prague 1 office authorized them as a “cultural event”, said Petr Bidlo, a spokesman for the city district, adding that “according to the organizers, all necessary anti-epidemic measures are observed”. Being a cultural event is not covered by government regulations. The Manifesto Market at Prague’s Anděl is shrouded in light and welcomes visitors with open arms. “We officially operate as a restaurant with a bar, we are covered, so we are not a market, but a restaurant,” project manager Lisa Ljubčič told a local Czech source, adding that the staff wears respirators and on every corner disinfection is available. “We tried to re-create a Christmas atmosphere here, the decoration were made by our architect Sara Gómez. We sell Christmas trees, excellent mulled wine and other cocktails,” adds the manager. Another beautiful place is Lucerna’s rooftop at Wenceslas Square. You not only...
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Of all the continents, Europe is now the hardest hit by the coronavirus. The highest number of newly confirmed cases per capita is reported by Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Belgium. But the Czech Republic leads to another unfortunate statistic related to the number of infected children. According to data, the Czech Republic has detected almost 3,000 new positive tests per 100,000 individuals at children under the age of 15 in the last two weeks. The number is also high in Slovenia (2,810) and Austria (2,706). The high frequency of testing detects many new cases in children. The Czech Republic is currently the sixth country in the European Union which carries out the most Covid-19 tests. Czech children undergo coronavirus tests in schools on a regular basis. Currently, Covid-19 is most widespread in countries with low vaccination rates. In the most affected country, Slovakia, 43 percent of the population has completed vaccination. In the Czech Republic, which is currently the second country with the highest number of new infections, the vaccination rate is almost 60 percent. The country currently vaccinates children aged 12 to 15. Vaccination registrations for children aged 5 to 11 are due to start in the country in...
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. The Czech Interior Ministry has created a Facebook account (@vnitro_cz) to get closer to citizens and to raise public awareness of ongoing political events. According to recent data, the Czech Republic has detected almost 3,000 new positive tests per 100,000 individuals at children under the age of 15 in the last two weeks. This is the highest rate in EU. The future Czech government wants to speed up the country’s energy transition and phase out coal earlier. “It would be the best success to do it by 2030, 2033 at the latest,” environment minister candidate Anna Hubáčkova (KDU-ČSL, EPP) said. Tomio Okamura has been re-elected chairman of the Freedom and Direct Democracy party. He received the backing of 84 out of 85 delegates at a congress in Prague. The Czech Vaccinology Society opposes the mandatory COVID vaccination of people over 60 years of age that the outgoing government wants to push through, but in contrast, it backs the compulsory inoculation for selected professions.
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