The low-cost airline easyJet plans to resume operations from Prague Airport in July.
Prague Airport is one of the most negatively affected airports in Europe: the number of passengers fell by more than 800,000.
On 15 June, the European Commission launched ‘Re-open EU', a web platform to support a safe relaunch of travelling and tourism across Europe.
A total of 17 airlines have already announced their intention to resume direct flights from Prague Airport. Specifically, 55 destinations have been listed, ten of which are already in operation. This week, direct flights to seven other destinations will be resumed, namely to Belgrade, Brussels, Budapest, Košice, Keflavik, Manchester and Munich. Thanks to intensive negotiations between Prague Airport and airlines, the list of destinations could expand further in the coming weeks. “Thanks to our intensive negotiations with airlines, Prague Airport is gradually succeeding in resuming direct flights. At the moment we have confirmed a total of 55 destinations. Airlines are returning to their routes from Prague in line with the relaxation of traveling measures and, above all, in response to the demand for flying shown by passengers. It is this demand that will be key to the success of the resumed air connections in the coming weeks and months,” says Václav Řehoř, Chairman of the Prague Airport Board of Directors. “Our main goal is to resume direct scheduled air connections to key destinations, which are major European cities used as important transfer hubs. These include, for example, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid and Vienna. In total, we have selected 45 such...
On Friday, the Czech Ministry of Health published a new “traffic light map”, detailing countries that Czech residents can safely travel to and from
Latvian airline airBaltic plans to resume direct flights from Prague to Riga on July 27.
Four thousand tickets for RegioJet's direct line between Prague and Rijeka sold on Thursday night alone, which surprised the company itself.
The Polish airline company Buzz wants to start flying from Prague to popular tourist destinations.
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair said on Tuesday it is reestablishing from July 1, 2020, summer season flights on 20 routes to and from Prague airport. Some selected connections will be operated by the Irish carrier in the last week of June. According to the information published on Ryanair’s website, Czechs can fly for example to Corfu, Rhodes, Zadar, Mallorca, or Malaga. Tickets price starts from CZK 419 and can be booked until midnight on Thursday, June 11, only on the carrier’s website. Olga Pawlonka from Ryanair said: “As popular holiday countries like Italy, Portugal, and Spain are opening up for international tourists, we are ready to welcome passengers on board from 1 July, when Ryanair will be operating over 1,000 daily flights across our entire network. We want to offer our customers as much confidence and flexibility as possible with no flight change fee if their travel plans change.” Prague now has 12 scheduled flights, and at the end of June, there should be at least 21. Ryanair operated 30 routes in Prague before the crisis. Ryanair destinations from Prague: Barcelona (resumption of operations – June) Bari (July) Bordeaux (July) Bournemouth (July) Brussels (August) Dublin (July) Edinburgh (July) Gothenburg (August)...
Slovenia has opened its borders to citizens of 14 states, including the Czech Republic, who can now travel to and from Slovenia without any coronavirus restrictions, the government said on its website on Monday. The other countries are Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Slovakia and Liechtenstein. The government also introduced an obligatory 14-day quarantine for everyone coming to Slovenia from North Macedonia, excluding diplomats, transport workers, and those passing through Slovenia without an overnight stay. The move follows a surge in coronavirus cases in North Macedonia over recent days. Slovenia, which in May became the first European state to declare an end to its coronavirus epidemic, has over the past few weeks opened its borders to citizens of neighbouring countries Croatia, Hungary, and Austria. Slovenia has so far reported 1,485 coronavirus cases and 109 deaths. It introduced a general lockdown in the middle of March and has been gradually lifting it since April 20.
On Tuesday, June 9, the Czech carrier RegioJet will start selling the tickets for the new long-distance train from Prague to Rijeka, Croatia.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis announced today that Czech Republic will end travel restrictions for Germany, Hungary, and Austria from today at noon.
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