PRAGUE (AFP) - Low-cost airline Smart Wings will launch a regular route linking Prague and London's Gatwick airport on November 1, flying six times weekly.
"Smart is reacting to strong demand. Ticket prices will start from 990 koruna (31.5 euros, 38.6 dollars) without taxes," company spokeswoman Vladka Dufkovashe said Tuesday.
Smartwings will take on two British low-cost airlines -- easyJet and bmibaby -- on the route, which will operate daily except for Saturday.
The Czech company currently flies to Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Zurich from Prague.
Next month it will also launch services to Rome, Dublin and Vienna followed by Dubai at the end of the year.
Next year Smart Wings plans to open around 10 new European routes, including the Mediterranean.
Smart Wings is a subsidiary of Czech chartered flight company Travel Servis, which in turn is controlled by the country's largest travel agency Cedok.
