S. Korea, Czech Republic to increase bilateral flights

South Korea and the Czech Republic have agreed to increase the maximum number of commercial flights connecting the two countries to seven per week, the transport ministry said Friday. The agreement to raise the current ceiling of four flights per week was reached during bilateral aviation talks held in Prague on Wednesday and Thursday. Korean Air, which started operating the Incheon-Prague route in May 2004, has transported a cumulative total of around 1.5 million passengers. Czech Airlines, the flag carrier of the Czech Republic, also operated this route for about seven years from June 2013 but suspended flights due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company continues to maintain a code-sharing arrangement with Korean Air. The ministry said the results of the aviation talks have provided an opportunity to strengthen cooperation between the two countries in various fields, such as technology, economy and culture. The announcement follows this week's news of South Korea's state-run Korea Hydro and Nuclear P ower being selected as the preferred bidder of a multimillion-dollar nuclear power project to build two reactors in at the Dukovany power plant in the Czech Republic. Source: Yonhap News Agency