The Czech Air Navigation Service Provider (ANS CR) has confirmed that the country’s upper airspace handled 769,039 flight movements in 2025—an eight-percent jump on the previous year. The statistics, published late Wednesday, indicate a full-scale recovery of European overflights and point-to-point services after years of pandemic volatility.
Ryanair, Wizz Air and Lufthansa were the three largest users of Czech airspace, but the most notable trend is the growing share of ‘delegated traffic’ from Germany and Austria. When Munich and Vienna sectors became saturated last summer, Eurocontrol routed additional flights via Prague’s Area Control Centre, where capacity was increased by 12 percent through overtime rosters and accelerated controller licensing.
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Operational performance remained robust; the average en-route delay attributable to Czech services was 0.09 minutes per flight—well inside the EU performance target of 0.19 minutes. For carriers this translates into fewer fuel-burn penalties and tighter on-time-arrival statistics, a key metric in corporate-travel SLAs.
Business-travel managers should note that higher overflight volumes often precede new city-pair launches, as airlines test market demand through schedule tweaks. Analysts expect at least two additional long-haul announcements for Prague during the summer IATA season, with North-American and Middle-Eastern carriers both evaluating slots.
From a risk-management perspective, ANS CR confirmed that its contingency site at Jeneč is now fully operational, giving the network a 20-minute fail-over capability in case of cyber-attack or system outage—a reassurance for travel-programme duty-of-care reporting.
Ryanair, Wizz Air and Lufthansa were the three largest users of Czech airspace, but the most notable trend is the growing share of ‘delegated traffic’ from Germany and Austria. When Munich and Vienna sectors became saturated last summer, Eurocontrol routed additional flights via Prague’s Area Control Centre, where capacity was increased by 12 percent through overtime rosters and accelerated controller licensing.
For corporate travel departments preparing for the anticipated uptick in Prague-bound itineraries, VisaHQ offers a convenient online gateway for checking Czech Republic entry requirements, securing business visas, and tracking application status in real time (https://www.visahq.com/czech-republic/). Their expedited service can be integrated into standard booking workflows, ensuring executives are cleared to fly well before new routes go live.
Operational performance remained robust; the average en-route delay attributable to Czech services was 0.09 minutes per flight—well inside the EU performance target of 0.19 minutes. For carriers this translates into fewer fuel-burn penalties and tighter on-time-arrival statistics, a key metric in corporate-travel SLAs.
Business-travel managers should note that higher overflight volumes often precede new city-pair launches, as airlines test market demand through schedule tweaks. Analysts expect at least two additional long-haul announcements for Prague during the summer IATA season, with North-American and Middle-Eastern carriers both evaluating slots.
From a risk-management perspective, ANS CR confirmed that its contingency site at Jeneč is now fully operational, giving the network a 20-minute fail-over capability in case of cyber-attack or system outage—a reassurance for travel-programme duty-of-care reporting.
