record bookings to Prague
Flights continue to Czech out Prague
By Robin Thompkins
CAPITAL IDEA: Flights to Prague will continue next year
ANOTHER Prague spring is uprising from Bournemouth Airport where more than 10,000 passengers have booked for this winter's flights to the Czech capital has prompted low-cost operator Thomsonfly to continue the service into next year.
Since the winter schedule was announced in April hundreds have flocked to board the four times a week flights to the home of Good King Wenceslas, which take off in November in time for the city's famed Christmas market.
Now Bournemouth Airport's biggest operator has included five flights a week to Prague in its summer 2007 routes from Hurn which went on sale yesterday with one-way prices starting from £19.99.
The Thomsonfly summer schedule also includes the return of the Valencia service which launched the budget airline's highly successful operation from Bournemouth in March 2005.
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While Thomsonfly already operates flights to nearby Alicante, Valencia is expected to be equally popular with South Coast holidaymakers, second home owners and sailing enthusiasts looking to visit Spain's Costa Blanca and the country's third largest city during the important America's Cup year.
With two aircraft based at Hurn, Thomsonfly currently carries some half-a-million passengers a year from Bournemouth to popular holiday, business and second home destinations in Europe.
Thomsonfly managing director Colin Mitchell said: "Bournemouth is an incredibly important departure hub for us and we are pleased to introduce new routes from this airport."
Bournemouth airport marketing and communications director Sally Windsor said: "We are delighted that Prague has sold so well this winter and that it has been added to next summer's schedule of destinations.
"We are also pleased to see Thomsonfly routes for next summer include the return of Valencia."