[Prague] Ruzyně International Airport

[kokpit]

On January the 17th, Terminal North 2 welcomed first passangers. I can count thee pax...looks like rush hour there

[DJ Bungi]

Originally Posted by kokpit

DJ Bungi: I think 17 millions is absolutely impossible, in 2005 it handled 10,8mio so in 2007 I expect max 12-13mio pax.

I didn't estimate that; I just read it in the newspaper.

[mic of Orion]

nice one,

[Herzarsen]

Great images kokpit! Jen tak dal!

I thought I let you all know that there are two old threads that relate to this one! Enjoy!

Airline of the Year 2005

Prague International Airport - Ruzine : Best Airport in Central and Eastern Europe

Check out especially the last link above for other construction photos from early 2005.

[3tmk]

^welcome back to another Czech forumer!
Not so long ago we were wondering where did all the Czechs hide, it's good that you guys can updates us now.
BTW, should I merge the two threads, considering they are both about the Ruzyne new terminal?

[kokpit]

Díky Herzarsene, I keep updating, airport is my avocation a bit.

3tmk: yes, you can merge them, I don't mind.

and some pabulum here, new departure screens in terminal North 2

[Prase1]

vitej zpet Herzarsen
New ***hotel Europort is under construction at Prague's Airport. It will also include 3000 square m. of shopping area. The whole complex is set to be open at the end of 2006.

december 2005

january 2006




visualizations

[kokpit]

Photos of North2 Terminal before opening

[new bulgaria]

Nice!

[TheFlyer]

[3tmk]

I made a quick 5 minute alphabetical search and I found a couple of threads about Prague's airport, which I merged together.
You can do it too

And I now found some thread about a second airport:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=298967

[mic of Orion]

Originally Posted by DJ Bungi

In November 2004 I changed flights in Prague. I was very impressed by the airport and construction was going on while I was there. Between flights, I grabbed a newspaper (I believe it was something like Prague Post or Times) and read an article about the new terminal. It said that by 2007 the airport will handle around 17 million passangers per year.

12.8 - 14.2 million at most m8ty,

17.2 by 2010, yep very likely

[ivan330Ci]

I will visit Brno in December 2006. Stop over in Prague and then my friend from Brno will pick me up. Looking forward to Czeh Republic trip. kokpit, we may meet up for a coffee.

[kokpit]

Prague Airport to introduce new fights and destinations in the winter season



Prague, 18 October 2006
Prague Airport is continually expanding, and will add new flights and destinations in the 2006/2007 winter season. The new timetable will apply from October 29, 2006 to March 24, 2007. Compared with the same period last year, the number of destinations with regular flights from Ruzyně has risen by 5%, and the number of carriers operating here by 9%. Prague Airport is therefore continuing to expand rapidly, despite the fact that air traffic traditionally experiences a decline in the winter. During the summer season, from April to October, by the end of September the airport had had half a million passengers more than last year. In the first nine months of this year, the airport had 8 879 123 passengers, compared with 8 329 089 last year, a rise of 6.6%.

During the winter, passengers will travel from Prague to 104 destinations around the world, compared with 99 destinations last year. They can choose from 46 airlines, 4 more than last year. Skiing enthusiasts will appreciate new flights with SkyEurope Airlines, which will now operate from Prague in the winter season as well as the summer, and its destinations will include the French skiing centre Grenoble. New flights in winter will also include Blackpool (Jet2), Bournemouth (Thomsonfly) and Luton Airport (Thomsonfly) in the UK, Turin (SkyEurope Airlines), Florence (Meridiana S.p.A., a new airline for Prague), Naples (Alpi Eagels, SkyEurope), Milan Linate (ČSA), Liege in Belgium (Fly Up) and Odessa in Ukraine (ČSA).

Compared with last winter, seven airlines will be added to the winter timetable in Ruzyně: Alpi Eagles (Naples, Venice), Clickair (Barcelona), Danish Air Transport (Copenhagen), FlyMe Sweden (Gothenburg), Fly Up (Liege), Meridiana S.p.A. (Florence) and SkyEurope Airlines (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Grenoble, Milan Bergamo, Naples, Paris Orly, Rome Fiumicino, Turin).

The ten busiest destinations with the most frequent flights from Prague in the winter will be Paris Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Amsterdam, Vienna, Zurich, Munich, Brussels, Milan Malpensa and Warsaw. In terms of the number of regular flights each week, ČSA is the leader, followed by Lufthansa, easyJet, Air France, Alitalia, British Airways, bmibaby, SWIS, Austrian Airlines and Smart Wings.

In addition to regular flights, in the winter months passengers are also very interested in charter flights. Travellers to exotic destinations will enjoy flights to Bangkok, Cape Verde, and new regular charter flights to Dubai, operated by Travel Service. Clients from travel agencies can also fly with Travel Service to Cuba, Jamaica, Kenya, Brazil, Zanzibar and Goa in India. ČSA offers irregular flights to Venezuela, Cuba and Dominica.

Extending long-haul flights is one of Prague Airport’s priorities; it is thanks to them that Ruzyně is becoming an important transit point in Europe. That has logically increased the number of transfer passengers, and Prague Airport seeks to make full use of that potential. New long-haul flights from Prague to Atlanta, which will be launched in May next year by the most rapidly growing international air carrier Delta Air Lines, a member of the SkyTeam alliance, will help to implement that plan: Atlanta is the largest gateway to the USA. Tickets are now on sale, and passengers began booking just a few minutes after they had been added to the reservation system.

[kokpit]

Ten millionth passenger of 2006

Prague, 9 November 2006

Prague Airport today welcomed its ten millionth passenger of 2006. The honour went to Czech Airlines passenger Miss Dagmar Pešková from Prague. This year, Prague Airport broke the magic ten million passengers figure nineteen days earlier than last year. Last year, Prague Airport notched up 10 million passengers for the first time in its history.

Shortly before 11 o’clock, the check-in systems identified Miss Pešková, who was flying from Prague to New York with CSA, as the ten millionth passenger to check in. Prague Airport’s managing director Ing. Hana Černochová and executive director of CSA’s Ground Operations Organisation František Lešundák came to Terminal North 1 to congratulate her. In their presence, Miss Pešková was checked in by staff of Prague Airport’s VIP Service.

“Although it was highly likely that the ten millionth passenger would be flying with CSA given that CSA accounts for 50% of Prague Airport’s operations, we are still pleased that it was one of our clients who had the honour,” said František Lešundák, executive director of CSA’s Ground Operations Organisation. He went on to say: “We are all the more delighted because Miss Pešková is a member of our frequent flier scheme and really does fly all over the world with CSA.”

Prague Airport presented Dagmar Pešková with a gift of two weekend trips to European cities. CSA gave her two Business Class tickets to a selected destination in Europe. In addition, Miss Pešková was awarded ten VIP check-ins. That means that she can drive to the airport and park in the VIP car park. From then on, she is looked after by VIP Service staff, who deal with the full check-in procedure, i.e. obtaining boarding cards, customs and passport control, luggage check-in, and take her onto the aircraft just before take-off. She will be able to use the internet, wi-fi, magazines and television and to take refreshments.

Miss Pešková was travelling from Prague to New York with CSA to attend a friend’s wedding, she told us. She is a long-term CSA customer and has flown to the States regularly in recent years, as she was studying English in New York. Since 2004, she has been a member of CSA’s OK Plus frequent flier scheme, under which customers of CSA and its airline and non-airline partners are awarded miles that they can subsequently exchange for bonus air tickets to destinations all over the world or a number of other interesting rewards. What is more, Dagmar Pešková is an OK Plus Gold Card holder, which brings her a number of extra benefits, such as preferential check-in at the airport, access to the SkyTeam Alliance’s VIP lounges and also free upgrade to Business Class on Czech Airlines flights.

Miss Pešková is, in her own words, very satisfied with Prague Airport's and CSA’s services. “I regularly fly all over the world with a number of airlines. But CSA has by far the best onboard service, and in particular good food,” Miss Pešková said. She is also appreciative of Prague Airport’s development in recent years.

She is going to use the air tickets and accommodation she won from Prague Airport and CSA as the ten millionth passenger for a weekend trip with her boyfriend. She is still deciding which of CSA’s many destinations to choose.

[kokpit]

Europort nearing completion


New parking for employees
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[Timoth12]

Very nice. Good hotel at the airport is a necessity for a good city and Europort is not just a glass box, Blava needs sth. like this...

[Maltaboy]

Looks respectable !

[kokpit]

Prague Airport breaks 11 million passenger mark



Prague, December 13, 2006

Today, for the first time in history, Prague Airport welcomed its eleven-millionth passenger. He was Petr Zykmund from Plzeň, who checked in at a counter operated by the airline easyJet. The record number of passengers merely confirms the current trend in the growth of air traffic at Prague Airport, which was 6.9 % higher in the first eleven months of this year compared to the same period in 2005.

“A month after the ceremonial handling of our ten-millionth passenger, we have achieved another unique record – breaking the eleven million passenger mark. We expect that that figure will rise to 11.5 by the end of the year, and next year we expect as many as 12 million passengers,” said Stanislav Zeman, director of the flight sales department at Prague Airport. He was among the first to congratulate Mr Zykmund.

easyJet, with whom Petr Zykmund was travelling to Germany’s Dortmund, presented the record passenger with two return flights to any of its European destinations, along with the chance to enjoy its new priority boarding service. “We are very pleased that we welcomed the eleven-millionth passenger on one of our routes. We have been operating from Prague Airport since 1999, and in that time we have built up a position as second-biggest carrier,” said easyJet representative Blanka Svobodová.

Petr Zykmund first flew 25 years ago from Warsaw to Prague. He said air transport has undergone radical development. “Flying was unusual and exceptional in the past. Now it’s an absolutely common method of travel,” he added.

With easyJet it is possible to reach eight European destinations from Prague. As well as Dortmund, to which it carried almost 62,000 passengers in the first nine months of this year, Europe’s biggest low-cost carrier flies to Basle, Bristol, Newcastle, Nottingham, Geneva and to two airports in London, Gatwick and Stansted. From December 15 the company is introducing a new direct route to Milan’s Malpensa Airport.

In order to speed up the process of checking in and the time spent by passengers at the airport, easyJet has launched a new service: for a small fee passengers can enjoy priority boarding with a free choice of seating. Up to 20 of the quickest passengers can reserve their favourite place on board while purchasing a ticket.

Prague Airport, which operates the international civil airport at Ruzyně in Prague, is in terms of the number of passengers the largest airport in both the Czech Republic and Central and Eastern Europe. 2005 was the first year in which more than ten million passengers checked in at the airport.

Prague Airport currently provides its services for flights and aviation security to many airlines linking Prague to destinations around the world. For passengers’ comfort it offers a range of restaurants, shops, areas for families with children, conference rooms and lounges for VIPs and business travellers.

In January 2006 Prague Airport opened its new Terminal North 2 for flights to European Union countries in line with the Schengen Treaty; the new terminal also allows for the further development of the airport.

[Tricky]

Looks good - I like it .... but it could use some green plants or something (don't you think?). It looks a bit sterile and definately lacks green (even fake palm trees or trees would do)

Originally Posted by TheFlyer