Number of passengers handled at Prague Airport grew thousandfold in 80 years

The number of passengers serviced at Prague’s Václav Havel, formerly called Ruzyně, has increased thousandfold since its establishment 80 years ago. During the first year of its operation in 1937, the airport handled 13,000 passengers, while today the figure stands at 13 million, the airport’s spokesperson Marika Janoušková told the Czech News Agency on Sunday. In 1937, Ruzyně airport employed around 400 people, including aviation personnel, while at the moment, there are more than 15,000 employees. The first aircraft to land at the airport was a Douglas DC-2 on a 9-am domestic flight from Piešťany to Prague via Zlín and Brno and the airport’s main runway was put into operation in 1963.

Author: Ruth Fraňková