Last fall, the ÄŒEDOK travel agency announced that its clients would be flying from regional airports in the Czech Republic with Air 001 as carrier. The turning point was the 2024 summer season, during which not even half of Smartwings charters departed on time. That carrier was ÄŒEDOK's key carrier at the time. The Blue-Style agency first reached an agreement with the Ukrainian SkyLine Express and the Turkish MGA, later exchanging the Ukrainians for the Romanian HelloJets. ÄŒedok has now started to rely on the Bulgarians.
Air 001 is a brand of the Bulgarian airline Electra Airways. During the summer season, it will serve more than 280 thousand transported clients. The Air 001 fleet has grown by three Airbus A320s (LZ-EAK, LZ-EAL and LZ-EAN) ahead of its strongest season. Two of them headed to new bases in the Czech Republic.
On Sunday, April 26, 2026, an empty Airbus A320 with registration LZ-EAN (production number 3014, year of manufacture 2007) arrived from Varna to Brno. The first c...
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Smartwings operated three of its aircraft on the routes of the Saudi low-cost carrier flynas last winter. The OK-TVY, OK-TSS and OK-TST Boeing planes were based at the airport in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Flynas was deploying them on routes to Egypt and Turkey from December 2025 until the end of last month. All three aircraft returned home to Prague on Tuesday, May 5. They flew in the hybrid flynas colors in Saudi Arabia.
Připravil: Martin Bernict
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On Monday, April 6, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 of Smartwings, registered OK-SWM, landed in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan is one of nine places that the 64 participants of the Round the World Tour will see in 26 days. They will also visit Barbados, Brazil - Amazonia, Chile, Bolivia, Easter Island, the Cook Islands, Australia, Palau, Taiwan, and originally Oman. Due to the escalation of the situation in the Persian Gulf, the last destination was changed and instead of Oman, the participants of the tour will stop in Thailand.
The first Round the World Tour was held in 2012 and has since become an integral part of each subsequent spring. In 2020, passengers were supposed to fly on Air X Charter's Airbus A340 instead of the Boeing 737, but the upcoming pandemic prevented their trip. The travel agency returned to its original carrier in 2023. The 2026 year is the third when Boeing 737 MAX is used.
Smartwings reconfigures its Boeing before each Round the W...
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- 2026-03-25 06:00
- Changes in routes
From March 24, 2026, the type on the regular EK139/140 route from Dubai to Prague to Dubai has been changed. Emirates is replacing the currently used Airbus A380 with a smaller Boeing 777-300ER. The first day of the change, the aircraft registered A6-EGJ (production number 38989, year of manufacture 2011) was flying the route.
The carrier will offer 310 seats in Economy, 42 in Business and eight in First Class.
Emirates is facing a dramatic decline in demand due to the ongoing conflict. Some flights to Dubai are only minimally booked, which illustrates the extent of disruption and the challenges associated with restoring the network.
Prague Airport has previously hosted Emirates Boeing 777s on regular flights from Dubai. This type operated the route until the end of November 2024. From December 1, 2024, it was replaced by a Superjumbo.
The route to Dubai was opened in July 2010. Since May 2016, it has been regularly operated by an Airbus A380. Emirates used to fly to Prague u...
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- 2026-03-24 06:00
- Changes in routes
The Czech carrier Smartwings opened a number of new regular routes last fall. With the winter flight schedule, it expanded its route network by 7 new destinations: Toulouse, Bilbao, Brussels, Barcelona, Porto, Bucharest and Rome. At the same time, it increased the frequencies to Paris and Malaga.
The Prague – Malaga route now flies 12 times a week, and from the new flight schedule it will be available even more often, twice a day. Smartwings will operate daily to Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Valencia and Rome (Fiumicino).
The Prague – Bilbao, Prague – Porto and Prague – Toulouse routes will operate twice a week.
During the summer flight schedule 2026, Smartwings will offer direct flights from Prague to eighty destinations.
Among the interesting features, the return of charter flights to the Greek island of Skyros is confirmed. This year, direct flights for the Brenna travel agency will be provided by Airbus A220-300s in the colors of Czech Airlines.
The group's fleet...
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- 2026-02-26 06:03
- Changes in routes
The announcements of new routes from the Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air from Bratislava are endless.
As always, it is first worth remembering where Wizz Air currently flies from Bratislava: Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Bucharest, Chisinau, EuroAirport (Basel/Mulhouse), Košice, Kutaisi, Lamezia Terme, Larnaca, London (Luton), Málaga, Naples, Nis, Oslo (Gardermoen), Palermo, Plovdiv, Skopje, Varna, Yerevan. Twenty destinations.
In January, it started selling tickets from Bratislava to Nice on the French Riviera. And tickets to Podgorica in Montenegro are now also on sale. The inaugural flight will take off on Thursday, May 21, 2026. The company will fly to Montenegro 3 times a week.
This June, Wizz Air is scheduled to fly from Bratislava to 31 destinations. These are Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, Chisinau, Dortmund, EuroAirport, Košice, Kutaisi, Lamezia Terme, Larnaca, London (Luton), Malaga, Naples, Nice, Niš, Ohrid, Oslo (Gardermoen), Palermo, P...
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- 2026-02-25 12:39
- Changes in routes
In 2025, Katowice airport achieved its best results in history. It recorded record results in total passenger traffic, both in scheduled and charter traffic. It handled 7,299,085 passengers. The forecast expects the airport to handle approximately 7.9 million passengers for the entire year of 2026. This will be helped by four new routes of the two main low-cost carriers operating at Katowice Airport.
The Hungarian Wizz Air has added one more aircraft to its Katowice base two times within the last 12 months. The sixth in June 2025, the seventh in the autumn. It is then adding an eighth plane for the summer of 2026 and will open, in addition to the previously announced routes (Dubrovnik, Ohrid, Rijeka, Rimini and Varna), also new flights to Comiso in Sicily. The pink carrier will then serve 31 destinations from Katowice.
Wizz Air flew from Katowice to 25 destinations in fifteen countries during the summer 2025 flight schedule. Namely to...
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- 2026-02-17 06:05
- Changes in routes
Wizz Air will expand its operations in Krakow. It recently deployed its sixth Airbus A320 to this base. It is planning five new routes for the 2026 summer flight schedule.
The Airbuses will now fly from Krakow to Venice, Budapest, Stuttgart, Bucharest Otopeni Airport and the Greek island of Rhodes.
Wizz Air flew from Krakow to 22 destinations in thirteen countries on last year's flight schedule. Below is a list of them and a comparison of frequencies with the upcoming flight schedule. In case the frequency has remained unchanged since last year, only the following is listed:
Destinations in Eastern Europe:
Sofia (3x weekly, now 4x weekly)
Split (3x weekly, now daily)
Larnaca (5x weekly, now daily)
Heraklion (3x weekly)
Bucharest (Băneasa Airport, 4x weekly)
Tirana (3x weekly, now 4x weekly)
Destinations in Western Europe:
EuroAirport (5x weekly, now 6x weekly)
Lyon (2x weekly, now 3x weekly)
Nice (5x weekly, now 6x weekly)
Bologna (4x weekly), cancelled for 2026...
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- 2026-02-16 06:05
- Changes in routes
The Hungarian airline Wizz Air has added one aircraft to its Katowice base twice in the last 12 months. Sixth one in June 2025, seventh in the autumn. It is adding the eighth plane for the summer of 2026. Thanks to the new aircraft, new routes are being created and some existing ones see their frequency increased.
The eighth plane will allow the opening of five new routes - to Dubrovnik, Ohrid, Rijeka, Rimini and Varna. The carrier will then serve thirty destinations from Katowice.
During the summer 2025 flight schedule, Wizz Air flew from Katowice to 25 destinations in fifteen countries. Namely to Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Burgas, Catania, Chisinau, Corfu, Dortmund, Eindhoven, Fuerteventura, KeflavÃk, Kutaisi, Larnaca, Liverpool, London (Luton), Madeira, Madrid, Malaga, Malta, Naples, Pisa, Podgorica, Rome (Fiumicino), Split and Tenerife (South).
The airport has had a record start to the year. In January 2026, the airport handled a re...
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Brno Airport handled a total of 739,323 passengers in 2025, which is less than 749,153 passengers a year earlier.
The only regular passenger year-round route to London (Stansted), operated by Ryanair, was used by 86,000 passengers, 12,000 fewer than in 2024. Ryanair then carried others on seasonal routes to Malaga and Bergamo, and Aeroitalia to Rome. A total of 143,744 passengers were handled on regular routes, which represents approximately 19 percent of all handled passengers. However, Aeroitalia's regular route to Rome, launched in spring 2025, will not appear on the offer in 2026, because the carrier has decided to terminate its operation. The route to Malaga will also fly in the summer and will become year-round.
The rest of the passengers traveled on charter flights.
Every weekday, Brno is served by two regular cargo flights for the international logistics and courier companies FedEx and DHL. In 2025, 12,797 tons of cargo were handled at Brno Airport (8 percent more than last...
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