SkyEurope cuts flights and shifts its base to Prague

It is also slimming down the number of destinations available from Warsaw and Cracow. The official reason behind the decision is the launch of the carrier's new airbase in Prague. "In order to be able to fully use the capacity of the Prague airbase SkyEurope decided to temporarily transfer part of its operations of all its other airbases to Prague," explained Eryk Kłopotowski, SkyEurope's spokesperson. By the end of March the carrier will cease flying to London and Bratislava and it has already stopped carrying passengers from Cracow to Amsterdam, Dublin and Brussels. Budget airlines withdrawing from certain markets is a common occurrence. "Airlines benefit from current demands for as long as they can and later switch to different destinations," said Tomasz Dziedzic, an airlines market expert. SkyEurope carried 472,400 passengers in 2005. In Q4 2005 the company posted EUR 26.2 million in revenues. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 10) D.W.