LAST FLIGHT of the World’s 5TH OLDEST Airline | Czech Airlines Final Flight

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I have come to love inaugural flights, but today we look at the other end of the spectrum as we travel on the last ever flight of Czech Airline, the [now former] flag carrier of the Czech Republic. Definitely a bittersweet moment, but share your Czech Airlines memories down below and let me know if YOU have ever traveled on an airline’s last flight

Airline: Czech Airlines
Aircraft: Airbus A320-214
Registration: OK-IOO
Age: 15 Years (Jan 2009)
Flight Number: OK767
Route: Paris, FR (CDG) – Prague, CZ (PRG)
Flight Time: 1h
Flight Date: Oct 26, 2024
Cost: $425

0:00 Intro
1:19 Check In
1:57 CDG Term 2D
3:13 Extime Lounge
5:17 Merger Announcement
7:23 Boarding
9:04 Who is Smartwings
10:30 CDG Takeoff
11:26 Dinner Service
12:34 Cabin Vibes
13:38 When Airlines Disappear
14:46 PRG Landing
15:40 Czech Airlines History
19:23 PURSER’S FAREWELL
19:59 CAPTAIN’S FAREWELL
21:23 STAFF’S FAREWELL

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  3. My family returned to the Czech Republic in 1990. My Dad was a refugee in WWII. My youngest brother returned in 1990 and I was the "courier" of basic necessities which at that time were unavailable. I would take Continental from Newark to Frankfurt and then take OK airways to Prague. I flew on AN124's and TU-154's for the 1st few years. Many pilots were former military at the time. Aircraft were soon replaced by Boeing aircraft. OK was always a great airline and we will all miss them.

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  5. I actually refuse to fly smartwings after the incident where their chief pilot was piloting a flight back from Greece had an engine failure and arrogantly decided to carry on to Prague. Clearly this is against all safety recommendations. The fact the guy is STILL employed by them means I find any alternative to flying smartwings. I don’t trust their procedures, so they don’t get my money.

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  7. I won't miss you CSA. Flights from Prague are always among the most expensive comparing to Vienna, Germany or Poland.
    Don't torture passengers and sell the PRA airport to Etihad or Qatar. Hopefully they can run it more efficiently.

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  8. So sad day, I am Czech and every time I saw Czech airlines at any airport it felt like piece of home. I feel like loosing flag carrier it’s like loosing aviation identity. Imagine loosing BA or Air France. Government leadership let 5th oldest airline down. I would like to thank you from bottom of my heart for capturing this emotional journey and end of era.. CSA always in my heart.

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  9. I used to be a frequent flyer on Czech Airlines for years back in days. I loved it so much. The best memories will always stay in my heart… 😢 I still have plastic OK Plus card, will keep it as a sweet memory. Condolences to Czechia from Lithuania

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  10. THANK YOU for covering this and I actually tracked its final flight and my dad flown this airline a LOT and I am just SAD that another airline went away and that I cannot try it out myself and THANK YOU for the history of both Smartwings and Czech Airlines and I agree with you that Czech Airlines should have stayed instead of Smartwings 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

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  11. The fifth oldest airline still in operation. Third airline in the world to operate jet aircraft. The very first airline that operated a route serviced only by jet aircraft. An airline that had 75 planes in its heyday and in 1967, its planes had the least vacant seats in Europe.

    All of it gone because of an incompetent leadership and political machinations.

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  12. Thank you. Have friends whose family have been part of CSA since the 1950s and TU-104 days. They're with CSA Tecknic now, which is still trading but under different ownership for quite some years now. A sad event.

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  17. Always sad to see a national carrier go.

    I've only flown them once, but i'm sad to say that it was not a good experience.
    Old plane/broken seat, and cabin crew that wen't around in the plane to make people take their earbuds out AFTER the safety demonstration? Never experienced that on Lufthansa/SAS/KLM etc, etc, etc. I fly a lot. It just felt like a time mashine back to the 90s, from around 2018/2019.

    But still, i wish they could have gotten themselves together and remained.

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  20. Well, you actually can transfer at CDG terminals without redoing security (and that’s what’s actually done). Arriving transfer passengers quickly exit the terminal airside and take a bus that serves all the terminals on the airside.

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