České aerolinie (or Czech airlines) is the Czech national airline company, founded on 6 October 1923 and headquartered in Prague. Twenty-three days later, its first transport flight took place, flying between Prague and Bratislava. Czech Air is curently a member of the Skyteam alliance along with Delta Airlines, Alitalia, Korean Air, Air France, Northwest Airways, and Contenental Airlines.
The company now connects to most major European destinations and to transit points in North America, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa and carries in excess of 2 million passengers each year.
The airline uses three types of aircraft:
CSA Czech Airlines Boeing 737-400
with the average age of CSA airplanes being approximately seven years
Two travelling classes are available on all regular flights: Business and Travel. All flights are non-smoking.
The airline runs a frequent flyer programme called the "OK Plus Frequent Flyer Programme".
As of autumn 2004, CSA flies to the following destinations:
- Armenia: Yerevan
- Austria: Vienna
- Azerbaijan: Baku
- Belgium: Brussels
- Bulgaria: Sofia
- Canada: Montreal, Toronto
- Croatia: Split, Zagreb
- Cyprus: Larnaca
- Czech Republic: Brno, Prague, Karlovy Vary, Ostrava
- Denmark: Copenhagen
- Egypt: Cairo
- Estonia: Tallinn
- Finland: Helsinki
- France: Paris, Marseille
- Georgia: Tblisi
- Germany: Berlin, Bonn, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Köln, Munich, Stuttgart
- Greece: Athens, Thessaloniki
- Hungary: Budapest
- Israel: Tel Aviv
- Italy: Bologna, Milan, Rome, Venezia
- Kuwait: Kuwait
- Latvia: Riga
- Lithuania: Vilnius
- Luxembourg: Luxembourg
- Lebanon: Beirut
- Norway: Oslo
- Poland: Krakow, Warsaw
- Portugal: Lisbon
- Republic of Ireland: Dublin, Cork
- Romania: Bucharest
- Russia: Ekaterinburg, Moscow, Samara, St Petersburg
- Serbia & Montenegro: Belgrade
- Slovakia: Bratislava, Kosice, Sliac
- Slovenia: Ljubljana
- Spain: Barcelona, Madrid
- Sri Lanka: Colombo
- Sweden: Gothenburg, Stockholm
- Switzerland: Zürich
- The Netherlands: Amsterdam
- Turkey: Istanbul
- Ukraine: Kyiv
- United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Dubai
- United Kingdom: London (Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted), Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow
- USA: New York, Newark, NJ, Washington, DC
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