Czech airline CSA raises passenger traffic 4.7 percent in 2006

Czech airline CSA announces it carried about 5.5 million passengers in 2006, 4.7 percent more than in the previous year. The number of passengers on scheduled flights rose on a year-on-year comparison by 3.4 percent to reach 4.7 million with charter passengers up 13 percent to nearly 800,000. CSA, the biggest airline in Central Europe, increased the number of flights by 1.1 percent last year to total 39,000.