Ryanair reinstates Prague connections

Budget airline Ryanair says it is returning to Prague's international airport with flights to London and Dublin.

Europe's leading budget airline says it will operate daily flights from Prague's Vaclav Havel Airport to London Stansted and five flights a week to Dublin, starting from April 1, 2014.

Ryanair cancelled those routes in 2010 because it considered the airport fees too high.

The company said yesterday it hopes to carry 180,000 passengers a year on the new routes.

The airline currently flies to the Czech cities of Brno and Ostrava.

- AP