Will there be a second civil airport for Prague? It is being decided these days
These days, the sale of the aircraft manufacturer is closing, HSC Aerojet Zrt will become the new owner after all the necessary administrative steps. The majority shareholder is Hungarian businessman Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, a minority stake in the company was acquired by the Czech Omnipol. And Pražský deník already knows the plans of the new owner with the airport.
Together with Aer Vodochody, Penta also sold Letiště Vodochody. And the new owner does not count on a public airport twenty times from Prague. I also confirm the information of the Prague daily Omnipol. “We do not plan to use the airport for public transport yet. We will use it for the needs of Aero Vodochody, “Marika Přenosilová, a spokeswoman for Omnipol, told the Prague daily.
From the beginning, Penta’s strategy included the expansion of Vodochody Airport for a low-cost civil service.
Fight for the second runway on Ruzyně
The nearest airport for Prague and Central Bohemia will continue to be only Václav Havel Airport. We will see this on the edge of capacity and we need to build a parallel track. The airport also wanted to build a new terminal, but mainly postponed the plan due to a coronavirus pandemic.
“The optimistic assumption of the origin of the runway is eight years from today. We will now want to extend the opinion on the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of buildings, which will expire at the end of this year, “he said when asked by the website zdopravy.czwhen the new runway will be ready, the new head of the airport Jiří Pos. If the positive EIA opinion of 2011 (already extended by five years) is not extended a second time, the airport will have to go through the whole process of environmental impact assessment again. According to Pose, this would delay the construction by about three years. At the same time, it would give opponents of the construction of the runway a chance to intervene again in the whole process and refocus the fight for a new runway.
Representatives of Nebušice and Suchdol are among the same fighters against the parallel track, and the Lysolají leadership, where Prague councilor Petr Hlubuček (STAN) is in charge, is also against them. Despite his opposition, the deputies eventually agreed to the runway. In December 2020, the opposition pushed for a positive position and the ruling TOP 09, Pirates, STAN and Prague opposed each other.
Another problem for the airport is the fact that in June 2020 the Regional Court in Prague erased the new runway from the principles of territorial development of the Central Bohemian Region. Prague Airport has filed a cassation complaint with the Supreme Administrative Court, and we are still awaiting the result.
Penta Investments is the owner of VLM, which publishes Pražský deník