Taiwan-based Starlux Airlines launched operations in early 2020, and has been growing rapidly ever since. While the carrier has an extensive intra-Asia route network, long haul service has been centered exclusively around North America, up until now.
Continue reading: Starlux Airlines Adds Taipei To Prague Route, First Destination In Europe
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Super exciting! Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. No surprise here..
The Czech Republic has tight relationships with Taiwan. That's also why CZ citizens don't have visa free access to mainland China, while most other EU nations have it.
It's a logical first European route for a Taiwanese airline.
No. It's the Czech Republic.
Same as United States of America is not "America".
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New A330 Business Class; perfectly resembles the AirTek platform from what I've been mentioning since the Aria Suites. No doors.
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That… is surprising. Absent London Heathrow or Paris Gaulle, I expected Amsterdam (chip industry) or Helsinki (Finnair for oneworld connection links)
Hey you all. Right! I am wrong. I guess their government preferred to be called the shorter way. And Google indeed uses the short way.
Starlux added the new route actually following the TSMC expansion. Prague is the most close hub to Dresden which is the new TSMC factory.
Glad to see their continued expansion; PRG is an unusual choice, but, good for Europe, too. Wish they'd fly to NYC, DC, BOS, etc. Show the east coast some love!
Ugh. Finnair... horrible seats, and when they mess-up, you get stuck... in HEL!
In an ideal world they should pick Warsaw and sign an interline agreement with LOT, but WAW is simply bursting at seams. There are no slots available, basically...
In an ideal world they should pick Warsaw and sign an interline agreement with LOT, but WAW is simply bursting at seams. There are no slots available, basically...
75k. here is the chart, which you can find with google https://www.alaskaair.com/atmosrewards/content/use-points/award-charts
Serge is right. Official name is Czechia. Just use google people. It was changed last year. I am Czech and we hate the name..
Not sure that's true as LO and W6 keep announcing new routes out of WAW... Load factors on some existing routes are being laughed at in Poland (like WAW-Oradea - recent flights with 2 pax out, 16 pax in). Agree it would be great as LO has an expansive network out of WAW - PRG has hardly anything.
I am Czech too and the PRIMARY OFFICIAL name is still Czech Republic. A secondary official shorter name is Czechia. Neither is incorrect, but Czechs do prefer Czech Republic by a mile.
AMS is already served by CI and KL from Taipei. Helsinki is the next route and has been confirmed by Starlux unofficially.
Will Starlux ever join OW? The prospects are increasingly unlikely at this point. I think there’s a 1 in 10 chance that talks proceed with the alliance. This is interestingly JX’s first destination west of BKK. For Taiwanese airlines, the entire region between VIE and BKK simply does not exist!
Note of course that the actual route flown is likely to be avoiding Russia, south via Kazakhstan, etc. as most carriers are doing these days.
Separately, there's a very interesting video on Youtube about the origins of Starlux that I found interesting. It's titled "Starlux, the revenge airline" , have a watch, it was surprisingly entertaining for what otherwise would've just been a typical inflight review video.
Prague is also popular with Taiwanese because of the Czech Republic’s strong stand against communist China. The government openly supports the Dalai Lama and Taiwan sovereignty.
China Airlines provides direct service to Yangon actually, so maybe more accurately as RGN and VIE.
Air traffic rights are limited between Taiwan and EU countries. There isn't an open-sky agreement. JX doesn't have many choices. Other potential destinations may include HEL and MAD.
The Czech cabinet approved Czechia in 2016, but different international organisations have taken their time to change.
I liked the proposal of Czechlands, but I suppose most people would have dropped the s.
The problem with "The Czech Republic" is partly 5 syllables, but also which other countries use or have used Republic in their name, E.g. German Democratic Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo.