Prague Airport Handles Nearly 4.4 Million Passengers in 2021
Air transport is slowly recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic-related travel restrictions impact, as evidenced, among other things, by the 2021 Václav Havel Airport Prague results. Compared to 2020, nearly 20% more passengers were handled, while the number of aircraft movements increased by 13%. The busiest day, in terms of the number of handled passengers, was 22 August 2021. The greatest number of passengers flew from Prague to Spain, Greece, and Italy. Amsterdam, Paris, and London were the most frequented out of the cities connected with Prague by direct flights. “Last year, we handled a total of 4,388,826 passengers, which is twenty percent more than in 2020, but still represents a drop of about 75% compared to the most successful year so far, the year 2019. Throughout the course of 2021, outbound tourism was predominant. Certain traditional holiday retreats recorded an increase in interest of hundreds of percent,” Jiří Pos, Chairman of the Prague Airport Board of Directors, commented the results. In 2020, 3.6 million passengers were handled, with the first two months of the year not affected by the current pandemic. In terms of individual cities, most passengers took direct flights from Prague to Amsterdam, followed by airports in Paris and...
