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Czech Airlines Handling Has New Spokesperson
Prague, 1 September 2024
Jiří Hannich now communicates on behalf of Czech Airlines Handling in the role of the company’s spokesperson. He also became the deputy of the new Prague Airport spokesperson, Denisa Hejtmánková.
Jiří Hannich returns to Prague Airport after four years. Between 2019 and 2020, he worked there as an external communication specialist. In the past, he pursued his career in an agency environment, where he provided PR services for clients from the healthcare sector. For the last four years, he performed the role of a spokesperson, leading the communication on behalf of Prague municipalities, first at Prague 6 and then at Prague 3.
Communication of Prague Airport Subsidiaries Is Now the Responsibility of Michal Procházka
3. October 2022
Prague Airport department of communication has a new member. On 1 October 2022, Michal Procházka assumed the role of spokesperson for the Prague Airport Group daughter companies Czech Airlines Handling and Czech Airlines Technics. He is also deputy spokesperson for Klára Divíšková, Prague Airport spokesperson.
Michal Procházka has pursued his career in the media environment for nearly ten years. He joins the airport having left the ORLEN Unipetrol Group, where he was responsible for external communication in the retail area, and spokesperson for the ORLEN Benzina gas station network for the past three years. Prior to that, he also worked in the media, which included being the editor and later the editor-in-chief of the Tennis Arena magazine. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague, where he studied Sociology and Social Policy.
“I am pleased to have become a member of the Prague Airport communication team. I believe, working here, I will use to the fullest my broad experience in the field of transport and contribute to maintaining a high level of communication across the entire Group,” Michal Procházka said. His primary focus will be on the Group subsidiaries, namely Czech Airlines Handling, which provides handling of passengers and aircraft, and Czech Airlines Technics, which focuses on aircraft maintenance and repairs. In the external communication team of Prague Airport, Michal Procházka has joined Klára Divíšková, spokesperson, for whom he will substitute in her absence.
Lufthansa Group Extends Its Handling Agreement with Czech Airlines Handling
9. august 2018
Czech Airlines Handling (CSAH) and the Lufthansa Group have agreed to extend the existing aircraft handling agreement for the period of five years. Under the Agreement, CSAH employees will continue to provide aircraft, passenger and cargo handling services to Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa and Swiss International Air Lines, the Lufthansa Group member air carriers. Lufthansa operates flights to Frankfurt five times a day from Václava Havel Airport Prague, while the Munich connection is offered up to four times a day. Passengers departing from Prague can reach Vienna aboard Austrian Airlines flights up to five times a day and travel to Zurich with Swiss three times a day. The Prague – Geneva route is also serviced by Swiss with a five times weekly frequency.
Jet Airways Delivery Flights to Stop Over in Prague
22. june 2018
The deliveries of many new Jet Airways India Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, which the carrier has ordered from the Boeing company, started in last weeks. All aircraft will make two stop overs on their way from the Seattle factory to New Delhi in India, namely in Goose Bay (Canada) and Prague. The first aircraft in the Indian carrier's livery landed at Václav Havel Airport Prague on Friday, 22 June 2018 in the morning and took off for India the next day. Czech Airlines Handling employees will always be in charge of the aircraft handling process, while the stop overs will be managed by SKYPLAN SERVICES FZCO based in Dubai.
Aircraft Refuelling for LOT Polish Airlines
11. May 2018
Based on its success in a tender, working with PKN Orlen, Czech Airlines Handling will provide LOT Polish Airlines the aircraft refuelling services. The Polish national carrier has increased the number of its connections between Prague and Warsaw during the summer schedule. Effective this May, LOT operates up to five daily connections on the route using either Embraer E-175 / E-195 aircraft or Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop aircraft.
Czech Airlines Handling Provides Its Services to Cyprus Airways
20. april 2018
Cyprus Airways becomes a new Czech Airlines Handling customer effective 1 June 2018, upon the launch of its regular scheduled flights between Larnaka and Prague operated by Airbus A319 for 144 passengers. The carrier will service Cyprus once a week and then add a second frequency on the route effective 2 July 2018. After that the route will be serviced on Mondays and Fridays with arrivals in Prague at 1:35 pm and departures at 2:35 pm. The history of Cyprus Airways dates back to the 1940's. Last year, the brand was relaunched by new investors after a two-year break.
Aircraft Refuelling Services for Travel Service and Czech Airlines
28. March 2018
Aircraft refuelling is one of Czech Airlines Handling’s services provided to air carriers flying from and to Václav Havel Airport Prague. Based on the results of a tender, working with PKN Orlen, the company will continue providing refuelling services to aircraft operated by Czech Airlines and Travel Service, including its Smartwings brand, during the next period.
Czech Airlines Handling Employees in New Uniforms
3. March 2018
Since this March, you can spot Czech Airlines Handling employees at Prague’s airport terminals wearing new uniforms. Thanks to higher quality materials used and comfortable fits, the new uniforms are to increase the employee comfort and ensure they are easily recognised from workers of external companies active at Václav Havel Airport Prague. The dark blue colour of the uniforms reflects the company’s corporate identity, while blue shirts and scarfs designed by Česlav Jaroš, academic painter, complete the look.
Cargolux Jumbo First Time in Prague
24. November 2017
The Cargo Boeing 747-400F Jumbo in the colours of the Italian division of the Cargolux air carrier, arrived in Prague for the first time. As an exception, the airline included Prague on the list of stop overs on its regular scheduled Johannesburg – Nairobi – Amsterdam – Luxembourg route. Czech Airlines Handling workers, as a part of the cargo Jumbo handling, also loaded car motors headed to the South African Republic into the aircraft hold.
Operations Subject to 2017/2018 Winter Schedule
29. October 2017
The winter schedule came into effect at Václav Havel Airport Prague on Sunday, 29 October 2017. Czech Airlines Handling (CSAH) will continue providing its services to a number of air carriers connecting Prague with interesting destinations in Europe and Asia during the effect of the winter schedule. Naturally, there are also airlines, namely Delta Air Lines, Air Transat, Azerbaijan Airlines, Air Malta, Luxair and Croatia Airlines, which only operate flights from Prague during summer seasons. A Russian air carrier, RusLine, became new CSAH customer on 31 October 2017, when the airline started operating its Prague – Kaliningrad route with Bombardier CRJ-100/200s.
Other changes in operations this winter:
Increased number of Czech Airlines flights compared to the 2016 winter schedule. Flights to Helsinki, Birmingham, Lisbon and Nice will be operated all winter. Moreover, during the Christmas time, flights to Beirut and Yerevan will be added.
China Eastern Airlines increases the number of its connections to Shanghai and launches flights to Xi’an with a twice weekly frequency. The new connection will be executed as a stopover on the route to Shanghai.
Monday and Friday Hainan Airlines flights will still continue to Belgrade.
As a result of ceased operations of Air Berlin, the Prague – Berlin route has been discontinued.
Korean Air decreases the number of its flights to Prague from four to three weekly connections. The Seoul route will be operated with Boeing 777-200s this winter season.
Alitalia decreases the number of flights on its Rome route to five a week.
Lufthansa changes the Frankfurt route frequency of operation to four weekly.
Ukraine International Airlines will only service Kyiv once a week.