Czech Airlines-CSA (Prague) will drop service to Helsinki and the Prague-Helsinki route on March 14. The route is currently served with Airbus A319s per Airline Route.
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Czech Airlines cancels plans for five new summer routes
Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie (CSA-Czech Airlines) Boeing 737-55S OK-XGB (msn 26540) ARN (Stefan Sjogren) (1957 retrojet), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Czech Airlines-CSA (Prague) is canceling plans to add the following routes from Prague this summer: Athens, Beirut, Larnaca, Oslo and Skopje per Airline Route.
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Czech Airlines to close its Slovakia operation
Czech Airlines-CSA Boeing 737-55S OK-EGO (msn 28475) ZRH (Rolf Wallner), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Czech Airlines-CSA (Prague) is dropping its Bratislava operation immediately. The company was using Boeing 737-500s to fly to Amsterdam, Larnaca and Paris (CDG).
CSA is expected to retire its remaining Boeing 737-500s.
The company issued the following statement:
“Czech Airlines will no longer operate its scheduled flights from Bratislava and will discontinue air service to Poprad and ลฝilina. This decision is based primarily on financial reasons. The Airline has decided to take this step due to Slovak passengersโ declining interest in using the service, and the dropping bookings for the first quarter of next year. The decision was accelerated by the illegal protest of some of Czech Airlineโs pilots, the announced strike readiness, and the need to ensure sufficient capacity on scheduled flights operated from Prague.
Czech Airlines is abandoning its unprofitable activities, but continues to look for new opportunities. For example, to Russia and Ukraine, it is dispatching an additional twenty flights per week this winter. There are also new destinations in the flight schedule, in the form of the long-haul flights of Etihad, and on 18 December, the first aircraft will be dispatched on the Baku route. Czech Airlines continues to have a presence on the Slovak market, as its service to Koลกice will carry on in line with the current winter flight schedule.
Czech Airlines announced capacity reductions on individual routes and the discontinuation of operations on certain routes last month, in its letter to the unions and to all employees. It is a step whereby Czech Airlines is responding to market developments and the growing crisis in Europe.”
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Czech Airlines to eliminate one third of its pilots
Czech Airlines-CSA Airbus A319-112 OK-NEO (msn 3452) ARN (Ole Simon), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Czech Airlines-CSA (Prague) is in the middle of a financial crisis. The debt-ridden state-owned carrier announced yesterday (December 5) it will dismiss 100 of its 300 pilots in a restructuring plan according to this report by Reuters.
CSA has also announced plans to transfer its short and medium-haul fleet of 11 aircraft and European routes to its lower-cost Holidays charter subsidiary.
The pilots last week protested against the plans to transfer the Airbus aircraft and some pilots called in sick in an attempt to disrupt the airlines’ operations.
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Czech Airlines celebrates the jet era with this 1957 retrojet
Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie (CSA-Czech Airlines) Boeing 737-55S OK-XGB (msn 26540) ARN (Stefan Sjogren) (1957 retrojet), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Czech Airlines-CSA (Prague) has introduced this 1957 Soviet-era retrojet color scheme on this Boeing 737-500. In 1957 CSA introduced the Tupolev Tu-104A jetliner and was one of the first airlines in the world to operate a jet aircraft on scheduled airline service.
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Czech Airlines to drop Belgrade, Tel Aviv, Venice and Zurich
Czech Airlines-CSA Airbus A319-112 OK-NEO (msn 3452) ARN (Ole Simon), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Czech Airlines-CSA (Prague) has announced it will end all service to Belgrade (served since 1946), Tel Aviv, Venice and Zurich. The airline is reorganizing and is cutting underperforming routes.
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Czech Airlines to add the Prague-Abu Dhabi route
Czech Airlines-CSA Airbus A319-112 OK-NEO (msn 3452) ARN (Ole Simon), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Czech Airlines-CSA (Prague) will add the Prague-Abu Dhabi route starting on September 21. The new route will be operated four times a week with Airbus A319 equipment according to this article by Al Bawaba.
The company is also dropping the Prague-Tel Aviv route. This route will now be flown by Travel Service Airlines.
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Czech Airlines is now operating Boeing 737-436 OK-WGY for DanubeWings
Czech's Boeing 737-436 OK-WGY (msn 25839) is seen in a Prague hangar before the lease. Copyright Photo: Czech Airlines via Marco Finelli.
Czech Airlines-CSA (Prague) starting today (December 1) has wet leased its Boeing 737-436 OK-WGY (msn 25839) to DanubeWings (DanubeWings.com) (Bratislava). DanubeWings today launched jet service with OK-WGY from Poprad-Tatry to London (Luton), Dublin and Manchester.
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Czech Airlines is operating A320 OK-GEB for Aircalin
Copyright Photo: Colin Hunter. OK-GEB arrives at Auckland on the Aircalin flight from Noumea.
Czech Airlines-CSA (Prague) is operating its Airbus A320-214 OK-GEB (msn 1450) on a dry lease to Aircalin-Air Caledonie International (Noumea).
Czech loses over $100 million, survival in doubt
Czech Airlines-CSA (Prague) lost over $100 million in the first half of this year. According to its management, the flag carrier is fighting for its survival.
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