Václav Havel Airport Prague (Czech: Letiště Václava Havla Praha), anteriormente Prague Ruzyně International Airport (Czech: Mezinárodní letiště Praha-Ruzyně, (IATA: PRG, ICAO: LKPR), is the international airport of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. It is located 10 kilometres (6 mi) west of the city centre and is, with over 13 million passengers in 2016, the Busiest airport in the newer EUmember states. It serves as a hub for Czech Airlines as well as a base for Travel Service including its subsidiary brand Smart Wings, and is also a base for low-cost carriers Wizz Air and Ryanair The airport is able to handle wide-body aircraft including the AirbusA380.
Prague–Ruzyně Airport began operations on 5 April 1937, but Czechoslovak civil aviation history started at the military airport in Prague–Kbely in 1919. The Prague Aviation Museum is now found at Kbely Airport.
Due to insufficient capacity of the Kbely airport in the middle of the 1930s, the Government decided to develop a new State Civil Airport in Ruzyně. One of the major awards Prague Ruzyně Airport received include Diploma and Gold Medal granted in 1937 at the occasion of the International Art and Technological Exhibition in Paris (Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne also known as Paris 1937 World’s Fair) for the technical conception of the central airport, primarily the architecture of the check-in building (nowadays known as Terminal 4) designed by architect Ing. A. Beneš.
Pequeños propulsores, Pequeños reactores, Jets medianos, Jets de largo alcance, Aviones regionales y Grandes aviones.
