Checo77 From Peru, joined Oct 2004, 1345 posts, RR: 9 Posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 8437 times:
Hello guys,
CSA Czech Airlines will open a few interesting routes starting summer schedule:
Lvov, Donetsk and Charkov in Ukraine
Baku, Azerbaijan
Bordeaux, France
Also, CSA informed, they are reducing weekly frequencies on the PRG- OSL, CAI and DAM routes.
Very interesting was the future prospects of new destinations. CSA said, they are analyzing and looking to start new routes in the Middle and Far East. The destinations mentioned are the following:
Rijad, Saudi Arabia
Tehran, Iran
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Bagdad, Iraq
and others...
Very interesting!!! I hope they open these destionations in the future, hopefully they will add a long-haul plane as they are promising. Nothing mentioned by CSA by now.
planeguy727 From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 1066 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 8122 times:
WROORD From United States of America, joined Mar 2009, 810 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 7303 times:
I hope BOD will work for them. I think they used to fly to MAR some time ago and it was short lived. With current fleet of A320 and ATR42 they do not have much leverage for long haul destinations.
CSA has a strategy of an all-Airbus fleet, they are phasing out the 734 and 735 now. A 763 is not an option in OK´s strategy. If they will buy sometime a long-haul, it will be a A330, maybe the A350 once it flies...
stipica From Croatia, joined Feb 2011, 398 posts, RR: 8 Reply 12, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 5850 times:
I know that this is negative news but I'm interested if anyone has information why the ÄŒSA has discontinued its seasonal summer flights from Prague to Dubrovnik and Split after many years ( excellent sales and good yields - info from cro agent )...lack of equipment ?
"In the golden years" during the summer we had ÄŒSA,SkyEurope (really missing) and SmartWings now we have only SmartWings ( 3 x weekly )...my plan is to go to Prague for 10 days,during July .... what can I expect from SmartWings LCC or charters ?
At the same time ÄŒSA will be increasing its frequencies to Zagreb ( first ÄŒSA international destination back in 1930 ) to 9 x weekly
Checo77 From Peru, joined Oct 2004, 1345 posts, RR: 9 Reply 13, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 5572 times:
Quoting stipica (Reply 12): I know that this is negative news but I'm interested if anyone has information why the ÄŒSA has discontinued its seasonal summer flights from Prague to Dubrovnik and Split after many years ( excellent sales and good yields - info from cro agent )...lack of equipment ?
Hey Stipica! I am not aware of why they dropped it, but I thought they are keeping Dubrovnik for the summer... Weird Well, if they really dropped it, it´s a shame...
Quoting stipica (Reply 12): "In the golden years" during the summer we had ÄŒSA,SkyEurope (really missing) and SmartWings now we have only SmartWings ( 3 x weekly )...my plan is to go to Prague for 10 days,during July .... what can I expect from SmartWings LCC or charters ?
Good to hear you are visiting Prague! Hope you will enjoy it here Smartwings is a typical low cost, you will fly a B735, food for purchase, normal crew. Regular LCC.
AirGabon From Switzerland, joined Dec 2003, 852 posts, RR: 3 Reply 15, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 4763 times:
Good to focus on CIS countries and to use PRG as a SkyTeam gateway to Baku, Ashkabad, Almaty, Tashkent, Yerevan and Tbilissi. Frequencies must be increased to compete with Star Alliance. A319 is perfect.
Also to open new routes to Ukraine (back to Lvov, good news!) and Russia (Kazan, Novosibirsk, maybe Irkutsk, Sochi, Nijni-Novgorod).
stipica From Croatia, joined Feb 2011, 398 posts, RR: 8 Reply 16, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 4421 times:
Hello guys... thanks Checo77 and Honza...
Definitely new approach on croatian market ...
Discontinued all summer destinations (lack of equipment + new approach ) and start to compete with Malev and Lufthansa/Austrian/Croatia for connecting market from Zagreb...By increasing flights to 2x daily allows a better connection from Prague to the new destinations and offering better price than AirFrance...
ZAG-JFK ( not possible before ) 18.7-31.7 Business class
LondonCity From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2008, 1196 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (2 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 3938 times:
What a pity that CSA has not decided to restart flights to any UK airport. You may remember that over the years CSA has slowly wound down its UK operation. In previous years CSA used to serve numerous UK airports, eg LGW, LHR, STN, BHX, MAN, EDI and GLA.
A lot of people were surprised when CSA dropped LHR, one of its last UK destinations, in 2010.
.....Very interesting was the future prospects of new destinations. CSA said, they are analyzing and looking to start new routes in the Middle and Far East. The destinations mentioned are the following:
Rijad, Saudi Arabia
Tehran, Iran
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Bagdad, Iraq
and others...
Personally, I think that the PRG-RUH wouldn't be a very successful route. Would be OK for a once or twice weekly, but definitely not more. I don't think theres much traffic from both sides to fill the planes up.
PRG-BGW would definitely be a successful route at the moment! With the massive Iraqi/Arab population in Europe and the demand for that route, I definitely can see it a success and profitable. They can easily fill planes up if scheduled at a time with good connections.
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Well, if they really dropped it, it´s a shame...
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