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Czech carrier Smartwings is adding Nice in France to its route map in May. The scheduled route from Prague’s Václav Havel Airport (PRG) to Nice Côte d'Azur (NCE) will operate 2X-weekly on Thursdays and Sundays using Boeing 737-700s. The route was previously served regularly by CSA Czech Airlines, with the carrier offering up to 7X-weekly flights during peak summer in 2019. However, PRG-NCE has been unserved nonstop since the start of the winter 2019/20 season. As the Smartwings Group contains both the eponymous airline and Czech flag-carrier CSA Czech Airlines, the latter will also codesh...

By David Kaminski-Morrow2021-03-02T10:55:00+00:00 Czech Airlines’ insolvency petition sets out the scale of the company’s financial problems, which it partly attributes to the inability to source rescue funding from the Czech government. The company has 266 creditors, with the total liability to suppliers amounting to Kc809 million ($37.1 million) as of 25 February, its petition to a Prague municipal court states. But the petition, seen by FlightGlobal, adds that there is a debt of nearly Kc1 billion to “hundreds of thousands” of passengers who are owed for the cancellation of fligh...

Czech Airlines have told the Labour Office that they are preparing to sack up to all of its 430 employees, the daily Hospodářské noviny wrote on Wednesday. 

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