Prague

The Prague-Ruzyne airport has cleared a record 12 million passengers to date this year, half a million more than in the full of last year and 7.3 percent more than in the same period of last year, the airport said in a press release today.

“We expect passenger numbers to get close to 12.5 million by the end of the year,” Stanislav Zeman, marketing director of Letiste Praha which runs the airport, said.

Prague-Ruzyne served 34,760 people a day on average this year. The highest number - nearly 47,000 - was cleared at end-June.

Among the most popular destinations was Paris with nearly 530,000 passengers in the last eleven months, followed by Frankfurt with over 420,000 passengers and London’s Heathrow with almost 386,000 passengers.

Among overseas destinations, New York tops the list with 103,000 passengers, trailed by Seoul with 80,000 and Toronto with over 52,000 transported passengers.

National air carrier Czech Airlines (CSA) transported over 4.9 million passengers in January-November, 4.4 million of them on its regular lines.

Travel Service with almost 1.1 million passengers is number two and low-cost airline easyJet with 900,000 passengers number three. Then are Skyeurope, Lufthansa and British Airways.

Prague-Ruzyne is the biggest airport in the Czech Republic and the second biggest in Central Europe. Fifty airlines and seven low-cost carriers fly to the airport at the moment, connecting Prague with 105 destinations worldwide.

Letiste Praha netted Kc1bn last year, which ranked it among the most successful state-owned companies.

Based on the government’s decision, the state-owned company will now be transformed into a joint-stock company which the state will then sell.

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