Ruzyně International Airport

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Ruzyně International Airport
Letiště Praha-Ruzyně
IATA: PRG - ICAO: LKPR
Summary
Airport type public
Operator Airport Prague
Serves Prague
Elevation AMSL 1,247 ft (380 m)
Coordinates 50°06′03″N, 14°15′36″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
06/24 12,191 3,715 Concrete
13/31 10,665 3,250 Concrete
04/22
closed		 6,957 2,120 Asphalt/Concrete

Ruzyně International Airport (IATA: PRG, ICAO: LKPR) serves Prague, Czech Republic. Located 10 km from the city centre, the airport is a hub for Czech Airlines. It was opened on April 5, 1937.

Most flights leave Ruzyně International Airport from the North Terminal. The South Terminals, South and South2, handle a few irregular flights, as well as VIP Flights, special flights and small aircraft.

In 2004, the airport served 9.7 million passengers, and in 2005 nearly 10.8 million.[1] On 13 December 2006, an 11th million passenger was served for the year.

The airport contains two runways in service: 06/24 and 13/31. Former runway 04/22 is not used anymore. The most used runway is 24 due to the prevailing western winds. Runway 31 is also used often. Runway 06 is used rarely while runway 13 is used only exceptionally.

Public transport to and from Prague city center involves taking the bus number 119 to Dejvická metro station and transferring on to the green metro line (Line A) there or express number 100 to Zličín metro station (yellow Line B) farther from the city centre. A typical journey takes about 40 minutes. There are also other bus services that run after midnight when the metro line is not in operation.

From December 11, 2005 also the bus line AE (=Airport Express): RW Station Holešovice - Terminal North 1 - Terminal North 2 - AP Ruzyně; goes every day, from 5.00 to 22.00 H in the interval of 30 minutes; special tariff: 45 CZK.

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[edit] Further development

As the capacity of the airport has been reaching its limit for the last couple of years (as of 2005), further development of the airport is being considered. Besides regular repairs of the existing runways, the Airport Prague (Czech: Letiště Praha s.p.) began the preparations for building a new runway, parallel to the 06/24 runway. The construction with estimated costs of CZK 5-7 billion is scheduled to begin in 2007 and the new runway marked 06R/24L (also called the BIS runway) is to be put into service in 2010. It will be over 3500 m long and will lie about 1500 m south-east of the present main runway. The 24L runway will be equipped with a category III ILS allowing landing and taking off even under very aggravated weather conditions.

The Airport Prague states that besides increasing the airport capacity, the new runway system will greatly reduce the noise level in some densely inhabited areas of Prague. This should be achieved by reorganizing the air traffic space around the airport and shifting the traffic corridors after putting the two parallel runways into service. However, the vision of heavier traffic raised many protests from the suburban communities directly surrounding the airport. On 6 November 2004, local referenda were held in two Prague suburbs - Nebušice and Přední Kopanina - giving official support to the local authorities for active opposition against the construction of the parallel runway.

[edit] Terminals

[edit] Terminal "NORTH 1"

[edit] Terminal "NORTH 2"

On September 2, 2005, the first phase of new terminal North 2 opened to the public. This increased the number of airbridges in the North terminals from 17 to 27, and the capacity of the airport by one third. The new terminal was fully open on January 17, 2006. The 9 billion CZK investment in North 2 was made possible by a loan from the European Investment Bank.

[edit] Terminal "SOUTH 1"

[edit] Terminal "SOUTH 2"

[edit] Airlines

[edit] See also

List of airports in Czech Republic

[edit] References

  1. ^ Official statistics for 2005

[edit] External links

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