Ruzyně International Airport serves Prague, Czech Republic. Located 10km from the city centre, the airport is a hub for ČSA Czech Airlines. Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... CSA Czech Airlines (in Czech: České aerolinie (or Czech Airlines) is the Czech national airline company. ...

Most flights leave Ruzyně International Airport from the North Terminal. The South Terminals, South and South2, handle a few irregular flights, as well as VIP Flights, special flights and small aircraft.

The airport contains two runways in service: 06/24 and 13/31. Former runway 04/22 is not used anymore. The most used runway is 24 due to the prevailing western winds. Runway 31 is also used often. Runway 06 is used rarely while runway 13 is used only exceptionally. A runway is a strip of land on an airport, on which aircraft can take off and land. ...

Public transport to and from Prague city center involves taking the express bus service (number 119  (http://www.dpp.cz/idos/ZJRRes.asp?tt=e&cl=E5&from=0&from=1955&to=0&to=582&ln=0&ln=16632)) to Dejvická metro station and transferring on to the green metro line (Line A) there. A typical journey takes about 40 minutes. There are also other bus services that run after midnight when the metro line is not in operation. A city is an urban area, differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. ... The Bus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ... The Prague metro is an underground public transport network in Prague, Czech Republic. ...

Further development

As the capacity of the airport has been reaching its limit for the last couple of years (as of 2005), further development of the airport is being considered. Besides regular repairs of the existing runways, the Czech Airports Authority (CAA, Czech: Česká správa letišť) began the preparations for building a new runway, parallel to the 06/24 runway. The construction with estimated costs of CZK 5-7 thousand million is scheduled to begin in 2007 and the new runway marked 06R/24L (also called the BIS runway) is to be put into service in 2010. It will be over 3500 m long and will lay about 1500 m south-east of the present main runway. The 24L runway will be equipped with a category III ILS allowing landing and taking off even under very aggravated conditions. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Koruna (English translation Crown) is the currency used in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. ... One million (1000000), one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999999 and preceding 1000001. ... 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2010 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. ... The Instrument Landing System (ILS) is an instrument approach system for landing in instrument meteorological conditions. ...

The CAA states that besides increasing the airport capacity, the new runway system will greatly reduce the noise level in some densely inhabited areas of Prague. This should be achieved by reorganizing the air traffic space around the airport and shifting the traffic corridors after putting the two parallel runways into service. However, the vision of heavier traffic raised many protests from the suburban communities directly surrounding the airport. On 6 November 2004, local referenda were held in two Prague suburbs - Nebušice and Přední Kopanina - giving official support to the local authorities for active opposition against the construction of the parallel runway. November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) or plebiscite is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. ...

External links

• Ruzyne International Airport Homepage (http://www.csl.cz/en/letiste/ruzyne/)