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May 10, 2006 (newstodate): The Czech airport of Karlovy Vary will reopen for traffic after being closed since January due to large construction works.
Plans are to start operations again from May 27, against June 17 as earlier envisaged.
Construction work has focused on resurfacing the 2,200 m runway to allow for operations by larger aircraft including the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737-800, and the whole runway infrastructure has been upgraded as well, including ligthing and markings, to comply with ICAO's CAT 1 standards.
-Work has also started on renovating the existing passenger terminal, due to be completed in 2007, to comply with Schengen requirements, and also in the pipeline is the construction of an entirely new passenger terminal, to be ready by 2007 or 2008, with work to start in September or October this year, says Ivan Harasta, Karlovy Vary Airport operations manager.
-The airport currently provides direct scheduled flights to Moscow by Aeroflot and to Prague by CSA, but hopes are to see new connections to Munich and Frankfurt from second half of this year by a Lufthansa partner airline, he says.
In 2005 the airport generated a total of 40,000 passenger, and the volume is growing annually by some 20 percent.
Thales has implemented a new ILS with DME as well as an additional Glide Slope, and in 2004 authority over Karlovy Vary Airport was transferred from the state to the regional government, opening up for fresh investment and EU financial support.
Plans are to start operations again from May 27, against June 17 as earlier envisaged.
Construction work has focused on resurfacing the 2,200 m runway to allow for operations by larger aircraft including the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737-800, and the whole runway infrastructure has been upgraded as well, including ligthing and markings, to comply with ICAO's CAT 1 standards.
-Work has also started on renovating the existing passenger terminal, due to be completed in 2007, to comply with Schengen requirements, and also in the pipeline is the construction of an entirely new passenger terminal, to be ready by 2007 or 2008, with work to start in September or October this year, says Ivan Harasta, Karlovy Vary Airport operations manager.
-The airport currently provides direct scheduled flights to Moscow by Aeroflot and to Prague by CSA, but hopes are to see new connections to Munich and Frankfurt from second half of this year by a Lufthansa partner airline, he says.
In 2005 the airport generated a total of 40,000 passenger, and the volume is growing annually by some 20 percent.
Thales has implemented a new ILS with DME as well as an additional Glide Slope, and in 2004 authority over Karlovy Vary Airport was transferred from the state to the regional government, opening up for fresh investment and EU financial support.