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Prague airport runway lands environmental okay

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Plans for Prague’s airport to have a new parallel runway so that the airport can continue to grow have been given a major boost

Ambitions for Prague airport to have a second parallel runway have been given a significant boost with environment clearance given for the project.

The Czech Ministry of Environment announced on Thursday that it had given environmental clearance for the plans for a new parallel runway although 71 conditions had been placed on the approval, including a complete ban on night flights.

The airport’s operator, Letiště Praha, says the current main runway is often now operating at 80 percent of capacity and reaches the maximum at peak landing and take-off times. It has warned that the airport’s further development will be curtailed without a new runway, it has warned.

Letiště Praha says around 17,000 new jobs in Prague and in Central Bohemia could be created by 2020 from the runway’s construction and long-term operation. Prague airport currently handles around 12 million passengers a year.

The Environment Ministry launched its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in 2005 with more than 3,600 comments and observations about the construction of the 3,550 meter runway in the following years.

The environmental clearance is not the last word as regards approval for the new runway but was required for a raft of follow-up authorizations from construction, civil aviation and other authorities, the ministry said.

The Czech competition watchdog this week gave clearance for the merger of the airport company and state airline, Czech Airlines (ČSA), under the umbrella of a new holding company, Český Aeroholding.

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