The FINANCIAL -- The bolstering of flights to Eastern destinations, in particular to Russia and other key markets in the region, will result in the completion of a logical transportation bridge between the East and the West, according to Czech Airlines. 

That is the main concept of the Czech Airlines backbone network that the Airline plans to complete this year.

In the West, the foundation will be the six strongest destinations and their natural linking to the East.  This basis of the network accounts for 48% of the airline’s revenue from scheduled carriage on the local and transfer markets.  In the East, aircraft will head to and from 16 key destinations. 

This network will be supplemented with regional flights of not more than one-and-a-half hours in duration, and, naturally, selected point-to-point carriage destinations, such as the service to Tel Aviv and Brussels.  The offer will be supplemented with long-haul flights via Abu Dhabi, in cooperation with Etihad Airways, and destinations offered in association with other partners.

Overall, Czech Airlines will operate flights on its own to 48 destinations in 31 countries in the 2012 summer season, which represents an average of 432 return flights per week.  Thanks to its cooperation with partners, the overall offer will be far more extensive, featuring more than 98 destinations in 50 countries.

Czech Airlines plans to incorporate Russian destinations such as Ufa and Nizhny Novgorod in its Flight Schedule , and boost its service to MOSCOW , Baku, Tashkent, Almaty, and Lvov.  One of the new destinations in Western Europe will be, for example, Geneva, and certain seasonal destinations are being considered.  Due to the unstable geo-political developments in the Near East, the Beirut service will be suspended. 

Due to a significant decline in demand on local markets, the 2012 summer offer will not feature Larnaca, Oslo, Skopje, and Athens.  Certain other flights, such as Helsinki, will continue to be operated on a code-share basis, and will remain in the Czech Airlines Flight Schedule with their original frequencies and usual departure and arrival times.  Nothing will change with respect to these destinations, from the customer’s point of view.

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