Prague Airport
Prague-Ruzyně Airport, known by the commercial name of Letiště Václava Havla Praha, is a Czech airport located 10 kilometres west of Prague city centre and is the main airport in the Czech Republic and one of the most important in Central and Eastern Europe.
prague airport
In 2008 almost 14.5 million passengers passed through Prague. Prague airport is named in its commercial designation after Václav Havel (1936-2011), the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic.
Prague-Ruzyně Airport was inaugurated on 5 April 1937 but the history of Czechoslovak civil aviation began at the Prague-Kbely military airport in 1919. Due to insufficient facilities, the government decided to open a new civil state airport in Ruzyně in the 1930s. The airport won the Diploma and Gold Medal in 1937 at the International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Paris (Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne) for the technical conception of the airport, first of all for the architecture of the check-in building (today known as South Terminal 1) by architect Adolf Benš. Other awards were won for modernity during the airport’s development phases. All this increased the interest of airlines in using Prague Airport.
Prague-Ruzyně Airport Accessibility
To reach the airport from the centre of Prague there is a city public transport bus service. The lines are as follows: 100, 119, 254, 179. All of them lead to several metro stops. During the night there is a bus number 510 (from midnight until 3:30 a.m.) which leaves the airport in the direction of the Divoka Šárka tram station, from where you can continue by tram. Another option is to take the Prague airport taxi