Prague Airport Experienced Year-on-Year Traffic Increase of 213%

Last summer, most passengers headed to Amsterdam. The first choice of traditional holiday retreats was Hurghada; the most popular country became Greece, frequented by over 388 thousand passengers.

During the 2021 summer operational season, i.e., from 28 March to 30 October 2021, Prague Airport handled a total of 3,090,115 passengers. When compared with the previous summer season, the number of serviced passengers grew by 213 percent.  

“Looking back at the 2019 summer operational season, the season pre-Covid-19 pandemic, an over 70% drop in the results was recorded. Two years ago, during the same period, almost 12 million passengers passed through the gates of Prague Airport. The same premise does not apply to the number of destinations operated from Prague. Passengers were able to fly to 123 destinations during the 2021 summer season, which is more than 65% of the number of destinations serviced in 2019,” Jiří Pos, Chairman of the Prague Airport Board of Directors, said.   

The average amount of passengers handled daily reached the figure of 14,240. The busiest day was 22 August 2021, when more than double of the daily average was recorded, i.e., almost 31 thousand handled passengers.

The day with most movements, i.e., both take-offs and landings, was 1 October 2021. August was the month with the highest daily operating average in Czech airspace with 1,526 movements per day.  

“The fact that the signs of the economic recovery trend both at the national and European level positively affected the air traffic volume year-on-year comparison in the last summer season is certainly comforting. However, if we were to compare the 2021 summer operating results with the same period of 2019, which is the benchmark year for us, we are still at 50% of the pre-pandemic state,” Jak Klas, Air Navigation Services CEO, noted regarding the summer season results.

A total of 51 carriers provided passenger transport from Prague during the 2021 summer season, five of which were using the services of Prague Airport for the first time, namely Blue Air, Blue Bird Airways, Israir, EgyptAir, and Bees Airline. Odessa, Hamburg, Warsaw / Modlin, and Nice were the new additions on the list of destinations.