Italy is one of Ryanair's strongest markets. The Irish low-cost carrier has been the country's largest airline for several years. Its planes land at 32 Italian airports. On the mainland, these are Ancona, Bari, Venice, Bergamo, Bologna, Brindisi, Crotone, Cuneo, Forli, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Milan (Malpensa), Naples, Parma, Perugia, Pescara, Pisa, Reggio Calabria, Rimini, Rome (Fiumicino and Ciampino), Salerno, Trieste, Turin, Treviso and Verona, as well as Alghero, Olbia and Cagliari in Sardinia and finally Catania, Palermo and Trapani in Sicily. The latter airport will open a base next year.
Trapani is located on the western tip of Sicily. The airport, named after the founder of the Targa Florio race, Vincenzo Florio, is both a civilian airport and an air base. Last year, it handled a million passengers. There was also a direct flight from Prague until Covid.
Ryanair is the main carrier at Vincenzo Florio Airport. It connects it with eighteen destinations. Namely, these are Bologna, B...
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- 2025-10-10 06:21
- Changes in routes
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air continues to expand its activities in Slovakia. In the summer, it announced the creation of a base with two Airbus A320 family aircraft at Bratislava airport and at the same time won the tender for the operation of the domestic route Bratislava - Košice. Now, Poprad Airport has also been added, to which Wizz Air has previously only flown from London.
A new route from Gdańsk to Poprad will begin operations on December 25, 2025. The Wizz planes will operate twice a week (every Thursday and Sunday). Tickets are on sale only for the 2025/2026 winter flight schedule. From Gdańsk, the company will also open new routes to Athens, Tallinn, Nice and Vilnius. A total of five new destinations will be added to the existing thirty-nine to which Wizz Air already flies from Gdańsk. Specifically, these are Tirana, Burgas, Split, Billund, Copenhagen, Turku, Paris (Beauvais), Keflavik, Milan (Malpensa), Rome (both airports), Verona, Larnaca, Budapest, Dortmund, Hambu...
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- 2025-10-09 12:21
- Changes in routes
The regular Ryanair Poprad – London route flew for the last time on Friday, August 29, 2025. It operated for less than two years, with the first flight taking place on November 1, 2023.
This was the only route that Ryanair operated from the airport, and the airline does not plan to resume it in the winter 2025/2026 flight schedule. The competitive battle was won by Wizz Air, which connected Poprad with London Luton Airport before Ryanair arrived, and will continue to do so.
Prepared by: Martin Bernict
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- 2025-10-09 05:56
- Changes in routes
Prague Airport expects two new regular routes in the winter 2025/2026 flight schedule. AJet aircraft, a low-cost subsidiary of Turkish Airlines, will start flying to Ruzyne. And Aegean Airlines will expand its operations at Václav Havel Airport and open a regular route to Thessaloniki.
AJet, formerly AnadoluJet, has its home base at Sabiha Gökçen Airport in Istanbul. It will connect the Czech capital on four flights a week, every Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The inaugural flight will take place on December 15, 2025. These flights will face competition from Pegasus Airlines, flying the same route twice a day.
Aegean Airlines have been flying regularly to Prague from Athens only so far. The new route, A3 517, from Prague to Thessaloniki will start operating on Tuesday, November 25, 2025. It will operate every Tuesday and Wednesday. The carrier sells tickets for both the winter 2025/2026 flight schedule and the summer 2026 flight schedule. Prague has been without a direct regular...
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- 2025-10-02 11:11
- Changes in routes
Prague has a chance to regain direct connections with Armenia. The last time of the Prague to Yerevan connection, Hungarian Wizz Air was operating the route from June 26 to September 15, 2023, but they were experiencing difficulties. Neither Prague nor Yerevan were Wizz Air's bases at that time. The operation was normally provided by aircraft from the base in Milan. One aircraft departed on the Malpensa - Yerevan - Prague - Malpensa route and the other in the opposite direction. This not only ensured service on the Prague - Yerevan route, but also on Milan - Prague and Milan - Yerevan ones.
On Wednesday, October 1, 2025, at 7:49 p.m., an Airbus A321neo, registration HA-LGV (production number 12575, manufactured 2025), operated by Wizz Air, landed at Prague Airport. The Airbus operated the first flight on the reopened route from the Armenian capital, Yerevan. Prague has had direct air connections with Armenia for the first time in two years since yesterday. Wizz Air last flew on t...
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AEI® is expanding its technical services in eastern Slovakia. Technical support and MRO services are provided to Smartwings at the Kosice International Airport since July 2025.
AEI® has been operating in Kosice since 2016, running a certified MRO station in accordance with EASA Part-145 regulations. The new cooperation with Smartwings thus extends the company’s long-term presence in the region and represents a logical step in its further expansion.
“We are ready to provide reliable technical services for Smartwings aircraft and thus contribute to the smooth operation of the carrier in eastern Slovakia. At the same time, we are strengthening our local background and confirming our readiness to respond to the growing needs of clients in the region,” said Branislav Cifra, CEO & Accountable Manager of AEI®.
AEI® is a flexible and experienced provider of maintenance for commercial aircraft, with an emphasis on reliability, rapid response and adaptation to customer operational require...
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Brno, the Czech Republic, 28 May 2025 AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE today signed an industrial cooperation project agreement with Lockheed Martin at the IDET international defence and security technology trade fair in Brno as part of the Czech F-35 aircraft acquisition programme.
The agreement represents a specific collaborative project to develop and produce a next-generation Multi Sensor Reconnaissance Pod from advanced composite materials.
“This agreement confirms that the Czech aerospace industry has the know-how and capabilities to participate in the development of cutting-edge technologies for the most advanced aircraft of today,” said Viktor Sotona, President and Chairman of the Board of Aero. “The Multi Sensor Reconnaissance Pod project confirms Aero's capabilities not only in terms of producing unique technologies in the field of advanced composite structures, but also in terms of significant international cooperation.”
The signing...
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- 2025-01-21 12:57
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German carrier Eurowings will not resume two routes from Prague to Greek islands in the upcoming summer schedule. Flights to Rhodes and Corfu will no longer be operated by the airline.
The EW4264 route from Prague to Rhodes was launched in the summer of 2023. Last year, it operated twice weekly, with the final flight taking place on August 31. Similarly, the EW4258 route to Corfu, also introduced in summer 2023, had been operating three times a week until its last flight, also on August 31.
Eurowings has faced ongoing challenges in the Prague market, frequently discontinuing newly launched routes. Past closures have included connections to Fuerteventura, Mykonos, Zakynthos, Tenerife, Milan, Bristol, Copenhagen, Larnaca, Faro, Zagreb, Tel Aviv, and Oslo. In 2022, the airline even announced plans to open routes to Hurghada and Marsa Alam with the launch of the winter schedule, but these flights never materialized. This unpredictability has become a hallmark of the a...
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In November, two Smartwings Boeing 737-800 aircraft were flown to Norwich, UK, to undergo livery changes at a local paint facility. Over the past two years, the airline has updated the livery on eight of its Boeing 737s, including OK-TVG, OK-TVL, OK-TVO, OK-TVT, OK-TVY, OK-TSU, and most recently, OK-TSD and OK-TSE.
Now, only three aircraft remain in the original Travel Service livery. This includes one Boeing 737-800 OK-TVS, currently on a round-the-world journey in French Polynesia with travel agency Leonardo, and two Boeing 737-900ER aircraft (OK-TSI and OK-TSM). The rest of the fleet either entered service directly in Smartwings colors or had their livery updated in prior years.
The Travel Service brand, which once specialized in charter flights, was officially retired at the end of 2018. The Boeing 737-900ER OK-TSM was the last aircraft to be painted in the Travel Service livery back in March 2016. This marks the gradual phasing out of the Travel Service era as Smartwings co...
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- 2024-11-05 21:38
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The German company Condor will start operations on the Prague – Frankfurt route in May 2025. The carrier primarily targets passengers for whom Frankfurt will only be a transfer airport. Frankfurt Airport is the main hub of the long-haul network of the German carrier and it offers flights to 45 destinations in nineteen countries.
In the last five years, Condor has successfully managed to go through a very turbulent period that began in the fall of 2019. At that time, its then parent company Thomas Cook went bankrupt. Then the pandemic came the following year. The carrier needed to find a new image and renew the aircraft fleet.
The rebranding came in 2022. In the spring of this year, it successfully completed the transformation of its long-haul fleet. The old Boeing 767s were replaced by new Airbus A330-900s. Condor got them very quickly, as some were originally produced for other carriers (mainly Air AsiaX and Garuda Indonesia) who did not take them over. The long-haul fleet now numbe...
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