Czech Airlines Resumes Long-Haul Flights With New Service to Seoul.(Acquires A330)

After a three-year hiatus, Czech Airlines is again including its own long-haul flights in its flight schedule. A wide-body Airbus A330 will join the airline’s fleet, enabling Czech Airlines to launch new scheduled service to Seoul, South Korea, and to initiate more intensive code-share cooperation with Korean Air in operating long-haul flights from Prague via Seoul to the East Asia, based on the model of cooperation being successfully employed with Etihad Airways. The new agreement will also ensure better connections to Czech Airlines flights from Prague to Europe for Korean Air’s clients. In addition to Seoul, Czech Airlines will introduce new service to Perm, Nice, Munich, Zurich and Florence in the 2013 summer season.


Airbus A330 in the Czech Airlines Fleet
Next June, a long-haul Airbus A330 hired on the basis of operative leasing will join the Czech Airlines fleet. Among other flights, the aircraft will be deployed on Czech Airlines’ new scheduled long-haul service to Seoul. The flights will leave Prague every Saturday and Sunday, and Seoul every Sunday and Tuesday, supplementing the four weekly Korean Air flights. The two airlines will share codes on the route. “Thanks to the mutual harmonisation of departure and arrival times, passengers travelling from Prague will have perfect connections to Korean Air flights from Seoul to Japan, China and the Pacific. At the same time, Prague will become more accessible and therefore closer for millions of passengers from East Asia and Pacific, and may become not only an important transfer point, but also a gateway to Europe on their trips beyond Prague,” adds Jiří Marek, Czech Airlines’ Vice President for Sale and Marketing. In addition to Seoul, Czech Airlines plans to deploy the Airbus A330 on the most sought-after flights to existing destinations. For example, the airline is considering using the Airbus A330 on certain flights to/from the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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