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CSA Czech Airlines
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.
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:
- Airbus A310-300 on long-distance flights
- Boeing 737 on most European routes and to the Middle East
- ATR on short distance flights.
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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