Airlines continue resuming direct flights and further increasing frequencies to already served destinations from Prague. Passengers can pick flights to popular holiday destinations in Europe, enjoy a long weekend or plan a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, for example. Currently, it is possible to fly to 115 destinations from Václav Havel Airport Prague. In the coming weeks, SkyUp Airlines, Blue Air and Wizz Air are to launch new connections from Prague. The Smartwings group has scheduled to resume flights to Dubai, London and St. Petersburg. More carriers are returning to Prague Airport after a break, such as flydubai, Air Arabia, Ural Airlines and Transavia France.
"Traffic volumes to key destinations have been increasing. The fact contributes to facilitate the renewal of inbound tourism, which is still waiting for its substantial recovery after the pandemic. We work intensively with CzechTourism and Prague City Tourism agencies to support this segment. At the same time, we are finalising the form of our support for outbound tourism to exotic destinations, where we expect significant interest boost in the up-coming winter season," Jaroslav Filip, Director of Prague Airport Aviation Business, said.
During September 2021, new routes will be launched, namely the Wizz Air’s connection to Naples effective 18 September 2021 and the Blue Air’s service to Milan, Linate Airport, effective 20 September 2021. A new route launch was also announced by the Ukrainian carrier SkyUp Airlines, which will fly between Prague and Kyiv up to three times a week from 23 September 2021, with flights offered on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Other carriers, which have not yet resumed their flights from Prague after the COVID-19 pandemic, also plan to re-launch operations. Ural Airlines will service Moscow, Zhukovsky Airport, again, while Transavia France will start flying to Paris/Orly Airport. There are also available direct routes to Bristol, Nantes, Hamburg and Billund.
Effective September 2021, frequencies will be added on existing routes from Prague, namely by airBaltic on its route to Riga, Latvia, by British Airways to London/Heathrow Airport and by Rossiya Airlines to St. Petersburg. Every day, passengers can now use the connection to Helsinki offered by Finnair, fly to Brussels aboard Brussels Airlines flights and head to Moscow with Czech Airlines or Aeroflot. KLM, Air France and Lufthansa are also increasing the number of frequencies to major European cities, which serve as important transfer points, too.
Passengers can now fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague directly to more than 115 destinations operated by over 45 airlines. In September 2021, it is still possible to fly from Prague to popular holiday destinations, such as Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Spain, Egypt, the Canary Islands and other places. There are also long-haul flights to Doha, Qatar, and Dubai, which will now be serviced by three carriers, namely Emirates, flydubai and Smartwings. Moreover, Air Arabia will offer passengers direct flights to the Emirate of Sharjah, a driving distance from Dubai.
Current overview of available connections from Prague is to be found by passengers on the airport’s website. Tickets are available for purchase on the respective carriers’ websites.
Current Overview of New Direct Routes from Prague: (*subject to change based on the current situation)
New Direct Connections:
Kyiv/Boryspil SkyUp Airlines www.skyup.aero
Milan/Linate Blue Air www.flyblueair.com
Naples Wizz Air www.wizzair.com
Hamburg Eurowings www.eurowings.com
Resumed Connections:
Billund Ryanair www.ryanair.com
Bristol easyJet www.easyjet.com
Dubai flydubai www.flydubai.com
Dubai Smartwings www.smartwings.com
London/Heathrow Smartwings www.smartwings.com
Manchester easyJet www.easyjet.com
Milan/Malpensa easyJet www.easyjet.com
Moscow/Zhukovsky Ural Airlines www.uralairlines.ru
Nantes Volotea www.volotea.com
Naples easyJet www.easyjet.com
Paris/Orly Transavia France www.transavia.com
St. Petersburg Smartwings www.smartwings.com
Sharjah Air Arabia www.airarabia.com
Frequency Increases:
Amsterdam KLM www.klm.com
Brussels Brussels Airlines www.brusselsairlines.com
Frankfurt Lufthansa www.lufthansa.com
Helsinki Finnair www.finnair.com
London/Heathrow British Airways www.britishairways.com
Moscow/Sheremetyevo Aeroflot www.aeroflot.ru
Moskva/ Sheremetyevo Czech Airlines www.csa.cz
Paris Air France www.airfrance.com
St. Petersburg Rossiya Airlines www.rossiya-airlines.com
Riga airBaltic www.airbaltic.com
Pre-flight Recommendations
Passengers with scheduled flights are obliged to review all currently valid conditions for travel before the trip. This includes both the conditions implemented in their final destination and the measures governing their return to the Czech Republic. In line with the implemented measures, we strongly appeal to travellers to wear FFP2 respirators while inside the airport, maintain a safe distance from other passengers, pay increased attention to hand hygiene and use hand sanitisers regularly.
At Check-in, passengers are to present: a completed Country Entry Form, if required by their final destination, a printed Covid-19 negative test result, vaccination certificate or doctor’s note confirming they have had Covid-19 (subject to specific respective country requirements), and a valid travel document.
Upon arrival in the Czech Republic, it is checked whether, passengers have completed a Public Health Passenger Locator Form (www. plf.uzis.cz), are in the possession of a certificate of completed vaccination or a proof of the illness recovery in the last 180 days. Passengers can also submit a COVID-19 negative test result according to the rules in effect. Passengers can help accelerated the arrival checks, too, by having prepared, ideally printed out, all documents in advance, prior to the airport control process.
