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Letiště Praha, a. s., is managed by a four-member Board of Directors.

Jiří Pos
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Jiří Pos was elected as a Chairman of the Board of Directors on 30th August 2021. He has returned to Prague Airport after seven years. He joined Prague Airport in 2006 and was Chairman of the Board of Directors and its CEO from 2011 to 2014. From 2014 to 2015, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Czech Aeroholding. After leaving, he developed his private business activities, mainly in the field of civil aviation and tourism. From 2019 to 2021, he also served as Managing Director of Karlovy Vary Airport. He started his career in aviation in 1986 at Czech Airlines, where he worked for twenty years. He worked abroad for the Czech carrier from 1994 to 2001 and was Vice President for Ground Operations from 2003 to 2006. He graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague with a degree in economics of aircraft manufacturing from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Jiří Kraus
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Jiří Kraus has also been on the Prague Airport Board of Directors since 2012. He is responsible for central procurement and logistics, protection of the environment, facility management services, building maintenance and area upkeep. He has been working at Václav Havel Airport Prague since 1997, when he was primarily in charge of power and energy systems and investment construction (such as the Terminal 2 construction). He moved to Prague Airport from the Poldi Kladno company. 

Martin Kučera
Member of the Board of Directors
Martin Kučera has been a member of the Prague Airport Board of Directors since January 2024. He  holds an engineering degree in Aviation from the Czech Technical University in Prague and an MBA in Tourism and Transport Management. He started his career at Prague Airport in 2005 as an Airport Operation Control Dispatcher responsible for the safety of airport ground operations. In 2006, he became an airport engineer and as a Project Manager was involved in improvement, development, and expansion projects and the implementation of A-CDM procedures. After five years of gaining valuable experience and expertise, Martin was appointed Director of Terminal Operations. He focused on aircraft/airport/passenger integration issues, capacity and efficiency improvements, and many other terminal operations enhancing projects. In 2014, Martin moved to the position of Director of Airport Operations to oversee airport operations development projects involving both the terminal and ground areas of the airport. Since 2017, Martin has held the position of the Executive Director of Air Operations. His agenda gradually grew to include the maintenance of airport areas, the fire and rescue brigade, and monitoring compliance with EASA regulations.

Jaroslav Petržela
Member of the Board of Directors
Jaroslav Petržela has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2 July 2025. He joined Prague Airport in 2008 and gained valuable experience in the fields of law, planning, project management, and crisis management during his participation in the privatization transformation of Prague Airport Administration in 2008, establishing the Czech Aeroholding Group in 2011, merging the Czech Aeroholding Group with Prague Airport in 2018, and addressing the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on airport operations and predominantly lease relationships in 2020. He gradually rose to the position of Director of Legal Affairs, which he has held since 2014. As a member of the Board of Directors, he is responsible for the company’s commercial activities, passenger services, and legal agenda. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno and the LL.M. program at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague.