TRANSPORT RESULTS

In 1997, Czech Airlines operated regular international flights from Prague to Western and Eastern Europe, the United States of America and Canada, to the Far and Middle East and Africa. The timetable offered connections to 38 countries and 53 cities worldwide. In cooperation with the American company, Continental Airlines, we reached a further 25 cities on the American continent.

In 1997, transport indicators showed remarkable improvement as compared to previous periods. A total of 1 733 657 passengers travelled on CSA aeroplanes, which represents a year-to-year increase of 7.5%. 1 436 746 passengers used CSA for regular transport which indicates an increase of 4.1% as compared to the previous year. Charter flights added 285 363 passengers to the total of transported passengers and thus showed a significant year-to-year increase of 30.6%. Domestic transport had less than a one per-cent share of the total of transported passengers.

Passengers showed the greatest interest in regular flights on European routes. Here the contribution of transported passengers reached 80.8% of the regular international transport total, primary credit for this result is due to the territory of Western Europe, where 54.7% of passengers were transported. East European flights made up 26.1%. North America made up 129 910 (9%) of the total number of passengers in regular transport, while 110 792 passengers, i.e. 7.7% of the total, travelled to the Middle East. London tops the scale of the number of transported passengers according to destinations, followed by Moscow, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Bratislava and Budapest.

Other transport indicators also developed with a positive trend in 1997: available transport activity in passenger kilometres increased by 5.1%, and available seat capacity increased from 66% to 66.8%. Available weight load was also up from 56.1% to 56.9%. An increase in the amount of air cargo, which reached a total of 10 394 tonnes, positively influenced the available weight load. Available seat capacity was best utilised on flights to the USA and Canada (78.7%), to the Middle East (64.9%) and to Eastern Europe (62.9%).

When measuring transport activity according to international standards (the indicator of revenue tonne-kilometres - tkm is used), the result was also positive as activity increased from 268 728 thousand tkm in 1996 to 285 368 thousand tkm in 1997 in absolute numbers. This represents a year-to-year increase of 6.2%.

 

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