Constitutional Court weighs into airport sale row

The Constitutional Court has called for the Supreme Court to come up with supplementary arguments why a runway should be regarded as a re-worked land surface rather than a separate construction. The question is at the centre of a dispute over whether Příbram airport was rightly privatized by the Ministry of Defense and sold to the private company Air Station. Part of the runway lies on private land, with the owner opposing the transfer. If the runway is regarded as just a reworked surface, as the Supreme Court argued in an earlier ruling, then it cannot be sold separate to the land and the previous privatization is called into question.

Author: Chris Johnstone