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  • Smartwings carried only 1.8 million passengers last year, an 81.5% drop

    Smartwings carried only 1.8 million passengers last year, an 81.5% drop

    Smartwings recorded a steep decline in the number of passengers last year due to the unprecedented situation in the aviation industry caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

    The group carried more than 1.3 million passengers on its regular lines and charter flights under its Smartwings and CSA brands, which was 83.7% fewer than in the previous year.

    Other 451 thousand passengers traveled on board Smartwings aircrafts operated on ACMI wet lease agreements with other carriers.

    Smartwings operated 13.5 flights last year (-78.4%), with Smartwings nd CSA branded aircraft landing at 263 airports around the world.

    The airline operated its flights not only from the Czech Republic but also from France, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Canary Islands.

    Smartwings’s fleet includes 47 airplanes.

  • Czech Smartwings to cut around 600 jobs

    Czech Smartwings to cut around 600 jobs

    Smartwings Group announced to the Labour Office of the Czech Republic its intention of collective redundancies.

    Depending on the development of the situation, the reduction in the number of staff could affect up to 600 employees of the Smartwings Group.

    The jobs affected include pilots, flight attendants and members of the operational and administrative non-aviation business department.

    The decision on the first organizational change was discussed with representatives of trade unions and concerns 29 employees.

    The termination of employment of redundant employees within the framework of collective redundancies should appear gradually from July 2020 to February 2021.

    At the same time, Czech Airlines and Smartwings will allow employees affected by the organisational change to switch to unpaid leave of absence status for up to one year.

    The redundancy process will follow the provisions of the Czech Labour Code.

  • Smartwings Group resumes operations to 25 more destinations

    Smartwings Group resumes operations to 25 more destinations

    Airlines of the Smartwings Group, Smartwings and Czech Airlines, are resuming flights to 25 additional destinations in July.

    In the first week of July, Smartwings will re-launch regular scheduled flights from Prague to seven Greek destinations: Heraklion, Kavala, Kefalonia, Corfu, Kos, Preveza, Rhodes and Zakynthos.

    It will include four Spanish destinations: Malaga, Mallorca, Tenerife and Valencia, to Cagliari in Italy and Burgas and Varna in Bulgaria.

    In the second half of July, Smartwings will also add flights to Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Madeira. 

    Smartwings has been operating flights to Split, Croatia, on a daily basis since 25 June 2020.

    In the first week of July, scheduled flights will also resume from regional airports

    Brno will offer connections to Rhodes, Zakynthos, Corfu, Kos, Heraklion and Burgas, while Ostrava will handle flights to Heraklion and Burgas.

    In the first week of July, Czech Airlines will resume flights to Odessa, Rome, Barcelona, ​​Gothenburg, Madrid and Helsinki. 

    The carrier’s flights to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, Bucharest, Košice, Budapest, Keflavik and Kyiv were re-launched in May and June 2020.

    On 25 June 2020, a new route was launched to London’s largest airport, Heathrow, which is now operated daily. 

    Flights to Copenhagen will resume on 24 July 2020.