Prague Airport within the Czech Republic has introduced plans to launch new direct flights to North America and Asia, together with Chicago and Vietnam.

The airport can also be negotiating to resume the path to Newark with United Airlines. In this regard, the identical can also be in talks with the latter’s competitor, comparable to American Airlines, for the restoration of the path to Philadelphia, SchengenVisaInfo.com experiences.

Commenting on this choice, the chairman of the board of the Prague Airport, Jiří Pos, mentioned that the federal government is trying in direction of the resumption of direct flights to Canada, particularly to Toronto and Montreal. Flights throughout the ocean will be operated with Air Canada, however Air Transat can also be an choice.

At the identical time, he identified that Prague Airport has additionally expressed curiosity in locations in Asia, together with China, India, Japan, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, and Mongolia, together with European locations.

Through an announcement launched on January 18, the airport additionally introduced that from March 27 this 12 months, it should as soon as once more supply a direct connection to Asia, offered by Korean Air. Such a service had operated for the final time in March 2020.

“This is an important milestone not only on the way to resuming operations and returning to the 2019 figures but also in terms of building a network of direct routes to Asia. Korea is one of the markets with the highest demand within the Asian region,” Pos identified on this regard.

Moreover, in 2022 Prague Airport dealt with 10,734,880 passengers, whereas in 2021, solely 4.4 million, which signifies that the variety of take-offs and landings elevated to over 100 thousand, which is 35 per cent lower than in 2019.

Commenting on these information, Jiří Vyskoč, Executive Director of Aviation Business Development, revealed that essentially the most potent day concerning the variety of passengers carried was July 1.

According to him, over 51,000 passengers handed by means of the airport that day, whereas the common every day quantity exceeded 29,000.

He additionally declared that the Czech Republic expects 12.5 million passengers this 12 months. Furthermore, Prague Airport expects to see an extension of operations by Delta Air Lines through the summer time season to 2023.

Whereas Iceland’s flag provider, Icelandair, will launch a service to Keflavík, providing passengers one other different to connect with North America. The airport additionally goals to open a street to the well-known metropolis of Bilbao in Spain.