Czech Airlines to scale down fleet and cut routes

Meanwhile, the national carrier Czech Airlines has said that it will need to scale down its fleet and cut the number of routes that it flies. In an interview with the newspaper Právo on Thursday, head of ČSA Radomír Lašák said that as part of the restructuring process ahead of the airline’s privatisation, cutbacks would be required. Two concerns are interested in the purchase of ČSA, which is due to be privatised this autumn. Air France – KLM is bidding against a consortium made up of Travel Service and Unimex for the airline. Recently it was revealed that ČSA had sustained a loss of nearly 1.32 billion crowns (72.2 million USD) in the first quarter of 2009 after experiencing an ‘unprecedented’ drop in the number of passengers, down 12 percent on the same period the previous year.

Author: Rosie Johnston