August 2010

PRAGUE AIRPORT NOMINATED FOR WORLD ROUTES MARKETING AWARDS

As the only airport from Eastern Europe, Prague Airport was recently nominated for the World Routes Marketing Awards 2010. This nomination represents a great success for Prague Airport. The World Routes Airport Marketing Awards are unique in the aviation industry in recognizing excellence of air service development as voted by airlines. Prague Airport is a shortlisted nominee for the European region together with four other airports. The voting for an award for marketing efforts of airports from across the world was open to airlines representatives who evaluated the marketing campaigns and communication as well as presentation activities of the airports targeted at business partners and public alike. The awards will be presented during the Gala Evening at the World Routes conference in Vancouver, Canada, on Monday, 20^th September.

NEW AIRPORT PACKAGES FOR TRAVEL AGENCIES AND THEIR CUSTOMERS

Prague Airport, in cooperation with its partners, has prepared new special holiday packages that will significantly reduce travel costs of passengers from all regions of the Czech Republic. From the end of October, Prague Airport will start to offer to travel agencies new packages which will enable their customers to purchase various services connected with the travel to the airport at discounted prices. Within the “Park & Fly” package, customers of the travel agencies will enjoy the advantage of cheaper parking directly at the airport. In a similar way, they will also be able to purchase accommodation in one of the airport hotels or a bargain train ticket of Czech Railways for their journey to the airport. Individual parts of the packages can be combined at random or grouped together with a VIP check-in via two airport lounges.
These new special packages follow up the successful project “Train + Airport” of Prague Airport and Czech Railways offering special return fares on train tickets to Prague Airport. More than 8,500 passengers, mainly from Moravian regions, already used this offer in the period from June till mid August. Due to the growing demand, this project will be prolonged until the end of this year.

UP-TO-DATE TRAFFIC INFORMATION ON ROADS IN PRAGUE AT AIRPORT’S WEBSITE

A new application that keeps passengers travelling from/to Prague Airport updated on the traffic situation in Prague was launched at the Prague Airport’s website. It's an essential tool for arranging journeys, avoiding tailbacks and saving time when travelling to or from the airport. This important information is now available directly at the airport’s website in the section “Parking & Transport”. The used on-line map was prepared in cooperation with UAMK - the Czech automobile and motorcycle club providing accident and emergency service for motorists.

PRAGUE AIRPORT’S PRESENTATION AT “WORLD ROUTES 2010” IN VANCOUVER

Also this year, Prague Airport will be visibly presented at “The World Route Development Forum” that will be held in Vancouver, Canada from 19^th to 21^st September 2010. The World Routes conference is the most important networking forum in the aviation industry where airport and airline representatives discuss the development of new air services, protection of the existing ones and plan the nearest future. The official part comprising of meetings will be accompanied by a variety of activities held at Prague Airport’s exhibition stand. The fashionably designed stand will be officially opened on 19^th September at 3pm. It will host a party at the end of each conference day, offering visitors a place for relaxation, with the taste of delicious Czech beer and foods and amusing programme including magician’s show, Wii interactive games and a possibility to win valuable prizes. All World Routes delegates are warmly welcomed to the Prague Airport’s stand No. 11.

LUFTHANSA ADDING FLIGHTS ON PRAGUE-FRANKFURT ROUTE

German air carrier Lufthansa has announced an increase of frequency on its flights between Prague and Frankfurt. The new daily frequency will be operated by a spacious Airbus A320 aircraft type with 142 seats in business and economy classes. Passengers will thus have additional two thousand seats per week available on this route. The new flights will enable passengers from the Czech Republic to choose from a wide offer of connecting flights from Lufthansa’s main hub in Frankfurt to more than 160 destinations in 70 countries all around the world. For more information, please visit www.lufthansa.com.

July 2010 saw a slight year-on-year decrease by 1.8% in numbers of passengers handled at Prague Airport. A total of 1,289,152 passengers passed through the airport in the reported month. The number of aircraft movements declined by 6.4% to the total of 14,998. The cargo traffic at Prague Airport followed its immense growth and rose, in July, by 48.8%.

While passenger volumes in the scheduled air traffic remained at the same level when compared with July 2009, the number of passengers in the charter segment fell by 9.2%, thus confirming the fact that the local leisure market still suffers by the lack of consumer confidence.

Greece was the country where the biggest number of passengers headed to and from in July 2010. It was followed by the United Kingdom and Germany on second and third ranks. The most significant improvement in passenger numbers was experienced on flights to Russia (+29.1%). With respect to destination ranking, the most popular destinations were again Paris/Charles de Gaulle with a robust increase by 50.8%, Moscow/Sheremetyevo with the second most impressive improvement by 16.6% and London/Heathrow.