Prague, 06/10/2010
Reaching Prague Airport for Half the Price – Starting this Summer
Are you flying for holiday and are wondering how to get to the Prague Airport? From anywhere in the Czech Republic you can reach the station Prague Airport directly by train. There is an every-half-an-hour bus connection of Czech Railways, the Airport Express. You can even save half the ticket price using new acquisition discount „Vlak+ letiště Praha“, because you will pay just for the trip from home to the airport, the return is free of charge.
From anywhere in the Czech Republic, a passenger can from June 13th travel with a domestic return ticket „Vlak+ letiště Praha“ to the station Prague Airport for the price of a one-way ticket. This ticket is valid also for the return trip. There is a condition to show a stamped ticket for the returned way. The stamps with the RETURN date are issued at the information counter in arrival halls of the airport after the passenger presents a boarding ticket and a personal ID.
The ticket is valid for 30 days and the last day to buy this ticket, so that it could be valid for 30 days, is September 30th this year. These tickets to station Prague Airport with this offer can be bought at any Czech Railways ticket office. The passenger will travel by train to the station Prague Main Station and then continue by bus ČD Airport Express, which operates between Prague Main Station and both terminals of the Prague Airport every 30 minutes.
Radek Joklík
Spokesperson for ČD, a.s.
Michaela Lagronová
Spokesperson for Letiště Praha, a. s.
e-mail: michaela.lagronova@prg.aero
mobile: +420 602 304 708
Information about Czech Railways, a. s.
Joint-stock company Czech Railways belongs among the prominent railway carriers within European Union. In 2009, more than 163 million passengers used their services. According to 2009/10 timetable, 7, 500 connections in average are provided by the Czech Railways every day. Thanks to the final solution in the public railway tranport funding, the national carrier can continue in massive modernization of the vehicle pool. In 2009, Czech Railway’s investments of more than CZK 4,000 million focused on modernization and purchase of new vehicles, in 2010 there will be 5,000 million of investment.
Together with that the quality improvement of all provided services is closely connected. New websites www.cd.cz were created in order to faciliate passenger’s orientation and all information on connections and prices can be got 24 hours a day on the line of a new Contact Center 840 112 113 as well.
It is possible to buy tickets for trains of Sp, R, Ex, IC, EC a SC cathegories in the eShop of Czech Railways or via Contact Center. At the same time a choice of cheap eTikets to abroad, tickets SporoTiket and eLiška for travelling within the Czech Republic and action return tickets ČD Tip to neighbouring countries are being offered there.
Information about Prague Airport
In 2009, the airport handled 11.64 million passengers. Prague Airport received the Award for Best Airport in Eastern Europe in the World Airport Awards. During the 2009/2010 summer season, passengers will have access to 50 airlines connecting Prague directly with 131 destinations around the globe.
