Eurowings pushes pan-European growth at its Prague base. Germany’s largest leisure airline intensifies its cooperation with the leading Czech airline Smartwings. As part of a bilateral codeshare agreement, connections operated by Smartwings from Prague can now also be booked under Eurowings flight codes.
At launch, the codeshare cooperation between the partner airlines includes flights to the Mediterranean metropolis of Tel Aviv, to the historic city of Valencia in Spain, to Split on Croatia’s Dalmatian coast and to Nice on the Côte d’Azur. There are plans to gradually expand the range of routes.
Eurowings customers will thus benefit from a wider range of direct connections from the Czech capital. Eurowings connections from Prague will also continue to be offered under Smartwings flight numbers and marketed via smartwings.com and other channels. The first phase of the codeshare agreement between the two airlines already started in March 2022.
Eurowings looks back on a travel-intensive first half of summer 2023 from its European base in Prague. In the first half of the year alone, the Lufthansa subsidiary recorded around 300,000 passengers to and from the Czech capital. This means that the value airline was able to increase its passenger volume in the Czech Republic by more than 30% year-on-year in the busy travel year of 2023.
Eurowings already connects the Czech capital with non-stop flights to up to 20 metropolises and vacation regions in Europe.
Eurowings now has three Airbus A320 aircraft stationed in Prague, including local crews. The flights are operated by Eurowings Europe, Eurowings’ pan-European flight operation.
