Czech Airlines Drops Baku Plan

Eastern European national carrier and SkyTeam alliance member Czech Airlines has dropped plans to inaugurate flights between Prague and the Azerbaijani capital Baku. The company was due to start flights on June 6 but originally delayed the launch until June 27. However, it has now emerged that Czech Airlines has no plans to inaugurate the service and will instead enter into a codeshare arrangement with Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) which already offers two flights per week between the two destinations.

An estimated 11,000 O&D passengers made the journey between the two capital cities in the past year, up from 2,000 in the previous 12 month period, following AZAL’s arrival on the route. It now has an 83 per cent share of this traffic with the remaining passengers flying on indirect flights via other European and CIS cities.

Schedule:

J2110/OK4936 PRG1210 – 1905GYD 319 4
J2110/OK4936 PRG1725 – 0020+1GYD 319 7
J2109/OK4937 GYD0815 – 0945PRG 319 4
J2110/OK4937 GYD1415 – 1545PRG 319 7