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Prague-Ruzyne Airport
Airport Directory » Czech Republic » Prague » Prague-Ruzyne AirportRuzyně Airport (IATA: PRG, ICAO: LKPR) assists Prague, Czech Republic. Located ten kilometre from the town center, the airport is a hub for Czech Airlines. It was opened on April 5, 1937. Prague-Ruzyně is the largest airport in the Czech Republic and with 12.7 million riders in 2008 the busiest 1 within the new EU fellow member provinces. It was named the most good airport in Central and Eastern Europe by Skytrax in 2005 and 2007.
Most voyages go away Ruzyně Airport from the North Terminals (Terminal one and two). The South Terminals (Terminal three and four) manage a few irregular voyages, as good as VIP voyages, special voyages and little aircraft.
In 2004, the airport assisted 9.7 million riders, in 2005 well-nigh 10.8 million and in 2006 11.6 million. In 2007 the figure of riders come up to 12,440,000 and the possessors of the airport called further development for 2008 with more than 13 million riders Preliminary informations for 2008 demoed 12,700,000 riders.
The airport incorporates 2 landing track in service: 06/24 and 13/31. Former landing track 04/22 is not used anybody more. The most used landing track is 24 due to the ruling western airs current. Runway 31 is also used frequently. Runway 06 is used seldom while landing track 13 is used only exceptionally.
Public transport to and from Prague town centre regards taking the coach figure 119 to Dejvická subway station and reassigning on to the viridity subway line (Line A) or Tram there or show figure 100 to Zličín subway station (yellowness Line B) farther from the town center. A typical trip takes approximately 40 min.. After midnight when the subway line is closed, nighttime jitney figure 510 runs from the airport, offering four conveyance points to center-bound trams en-route. Also figure 179 is able to be used for a longer but more interesting travel to a Prague Metro station (yellowness Line B).
Since 14 December 14 2008, the bus line AE (Airport Express) also supplies nonstop service between Terminals North one & North two and the Prague Main railroad station every solar day, from 5.00 to 22.00 H in the time interval of 30 min.; special duty: 45 CZK.
History
Old control tower built in 1937 (rear position) - currently division of Terminal fourCzechoslovakia , currently Czech Republic, belonged to the direct European open up of the general aviation and got over clip a division of the most state-of-the-art continental transit. The Prague – Ruzyně Airport set about functioning on April 5, 1937, but Czechoslovak general aviation history commenced at the armed forces airport in Prague - Kbely in 1919. Due to deficient capacity of the Kbely airport in the center of 30s of 20th century, the Government make up one's mind to evolve a new State Civil Airport in Ruzyně. One of the major awards the Prague Ruzyně Airport had include Diploma and Gold Medal allowed in 1937 at the juncture of the International Art and Technical Exhibition in Paris (Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans lah Vie Moderne also known as Paris 1937 World's Fair) for the proficient concept of the central airport, principally the architecture of check-in construction (currently known as Terminal four) projected by designer Ing. A. Beneš. Other awards were allowed for modernisation during person airport development stages. All these facts have been increasing the involvement of bearers in using Prague airport.
The airport has excellent place both with regard to short distance from the heart of Prague and within the European area . Moreover, the Ruzyně fields furnish chances for further enlargement of the airport consorting to the increasing capacity claim. The airport assists as a hub of the trans-European airport web.
The political and economical modifies bear upon the 70 yr of being of the Prague-Ruzyně Airport. Some new air transportation corporations and establishments were constituted and some stopped functioning since then. Ten entities were responsible for airport disposal over clip, including the new building and development. Until the 1990s, there were 2 or 3 decennium spreads before the major modernisation of the Prague-Ruzyně Airport set out in say to fit the current capacity demands. Since then, the Airport set about modernisation on an ongoing ground and is bit by bit 1 of the top European airports.
The airport was used in the James Bond movie, Casino Royale. The airport, alongside with Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 shows a scene that really takes location in the movie at Miami International Airport.
Further development
Departure hallway of Terminal one opened in 1997As the capacity of the airport has been hitting its boundary for the last duo of yr (as of 2005), further development of the airport is being see. Besides regular doctors of the being landing track, Prague Airport (Czech: Letiště Praha s.p.) set about the readying for construction a new landing track, parallel to the 06/24 landing track. The building with approximated costs of CZK 5-7 billion is scheduled to start in 2007 and the new landing track marked 06R/24L (also named the BIS landing track) is to be set into service in 2010. It shall be over 3500 m long. Located approximately 1500 m south east of the present independent landing track. The 24L landing track shall be fit out with a family III ILS letting districting and part under bad weather condition.
Prague Airport provinces that besides increasing the airport capacity, the new landing track system will greatly cut down the noise stage in some dumbly dwell area of Prague. This should be reached by shake up the air traffic infinite around the airport and switch the traffic corridors after position the 2 parallel landing track into service. The vision of heavy traffic raised many protests from the suburban communities direct skirting the airport. On six November 2004, local referenda were held in 2 Prague suburbias - Nebušice and Přední Kopanina - giving functionary back up to the local authorizations for active agent resistance against the building of the parallel landing track.
The building of a railroad connexion between the airport and Prague town centre is also in the program level. According to the most recent programmes, the building should get down in 2010 and the functioning should get down in 2013. The landing track shall be assisted by evince railroad train with special menus, tie non-stop the airport with the town centre, and local railroad train to the full incorporated into Prague incorporated theodolite system.
Terminals
Terminal one
Non-Schengen Flights
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo |
| Aeroflot-Don | Rostov |
| Aerosvit Airlines | Kiev-Boryspil |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin |
| Air Moldova | Chişinău |
| Belavia | Minsk |
| B&H Airlines | Sarajevo |
| Bmibaby | Belfast-International, Birmingham, Manchester |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow |
| Czech Airlines | Almaty, Beirut, Belgrade, Bucharest-Otopeni, Cairo, Damascus, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil, Kuwait , Larnaca, London-Heathrow, Manchester, Minsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, New York-JFK, Novosibirsk, Odessa, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Skopje, Sofia, Split , St Petersburg, Tashkent , Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Toronto-Pearson , Yekaterinburg, Yerevan, Zagreb |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta, New York-JFK |
| EasyJet | Bristol, East Midlands, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted |
| El Al | Tel Aviv |
| KD Avia | Kaliningrad |
| Korean Air | Seoul-Incheon |
| Jet2.com | Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford |
| Polet Airlines | Voronezh |
| Rossiya | St Petersburg |
| Ryanair | Birmingham, Dublin, East Midlands |
| SkyEurope | Bourgas , Dubrovnik , London-Luton, Split |
| Travel Service functioned by Smart Wings |
Dubai, Larnaca , Split |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk |
| Ural Airlines | Ekaterinburg |
| Wizz Air | Bourgas , Liverpool , London-Luton |
| Yamal Airlines | Tyumen |
Terminal two
Schengen Flights; opened 17 January 2006
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Air France functioned by Brit Air |
Lyon |
| Air Malta | Malta |
| Austrian Airlines functioned by Austrian Arrows |
Vienna |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| City Airline | Gothenburg-Landvetter |
| Clickair | Barcelona |
| Czech Airlines | Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Bologna, Bratislava, Brno, Brussels, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Heraklion , Košice, Kraków, Ljubljana, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Oslo-Gardermoen, Ostrava, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Thessaloniki, Venice-Marco Polo, Vilnius, Warsaw, Žilina, Zürich |
| Czech Airlines functioned by Central Connect Airlines | Brno, Ostrava, Kraków |
| easyJet | Milan-Malpensa |
| Finnair | Helsinki |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn |
| Iberia | Madrid |
| KLM functioned by KLM Cityhopper |
Amsterdam |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw |
| LOT Polish Airlines functioned by Eurolot |
Warsaw |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Lufthansa functioned by Air Dolomiti |
Munich |
| Lufthansa functioned by Augsburg Airways |
Munich |
| Lufthansa functioned by Lufthansa CityLine |
Düsseldorf, Munich |
| Luxair | Luxembourg, Saarbrücken |
| Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Oslo-Rygge, Stavanger, Trondheim |
| Ryanair | Hahn, Stockholm-Skavsta |
| SAS Scandinavian Airlines | Stockholm-Arlanda |
| SkyEurope | Alicante , Amsterdam, Athens, Bari, Brussels, Catania , Copenhagen, Lisbon , Malaga , Milan-Bergamo, Naples, Olbia , Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Thessaloniki , Venice-Treviso |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Geneva, Zürich |
| Swiss International Air Lines functioned by Helvetic Airways |
Zürich |
| Swiss International Air Lines functioned by Swiss European Air Lines |
Basel/Mulhouse |
| Travel Service functioned by Smart Wings |
Barcelona , Budapest, Cagliari , Corfu , Chania , Heraklion , Ibiza , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Madrid, Malaga , Naples Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Patras , Rhodes , Rome-Fiumicino, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki , Valencia , Zakynthos |
| TAP Portugal | Budapest , Lisbon |
| Wind Jet | Forli |
| Wizz Air | Barcelona , Charleroi, Eindhoven , Madrid , Malmö , Milan-Bergamo, Naples , Sandefjord (OSLO)-Torp , Paris-Beauvais ), Rome-Fiumicino, Thessaloniki |
Terminal three
For VIP and private voyages as good as charters; Opened in 1997.
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| ABS Jets | business organisation jet plane service |
| Czech Airlines | Braunschweig - scheduled charters |
| Grossmann Jet Service | business organisation jet plane service |
| NetJets Europe | business organisation jet plane service |
| Silesia Air | business organisation jet plane service |
| Time Air | business organisation jet plane service |
| Travel Service | business organisation jet plane service |
Terminal four
For VIP voyages and functionary State sees or prominent junctures only. Historic landmark depot that set about functioning on five April 1937.
Charter voyages
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Air Cairo | Hurghada |
| Bulgaria Air | Bourgas |
| Czech Airlines | Cancún, Fortaleza, Hurghada, Isla Margarita, Marsa Alam, Palma de Mallorca, Porlamar, Punta Cana, Sal, San Salvador, Sharm el-Sheikh, Taba, Varadero, Zakinthos |
| Japan Airlines | Fukuoka, Osaka-Kansai, Sapporo-Chitose, Tokyo-Narita |
| Karthago Airlines | Djerba, Monastir |
| Nouvelair | Djerba, Monastir |
| Seagle Air | Burgas, Corfu, Chania, Kavala, Naples, Perugia, Zaragoza, Zakinthos |
| SunExpress | Antalya |
| Travel Service | Antalya, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Bourgas, Chania, Colombo, Corfu, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Girona, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Hurghada, Kos, Lanzarote, Malé, Marsa Alam, Mombasa, Mytilene, Phuket, Preveza, Punta Cana, Rhodos, Sal, Samos, Sharm elevated railroad Seikh, Tabarka, Taba, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-South, Tunis, Varadero, Zakinthos |
| Tunis Air | Djerba, Monastir |
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