Czechs spend record amount on flights

Czechs spent a record CZK 7.98 billion on air tickets last year, Mladá fronta Dnes reported, quoting figures from the International Air Travel Association. That was 11 percent higher than in 2006. Czech travellers spent another CZK 2 billion on airport charges. Around three quarters of a million flight tickets were bought by Czechs, for whom tickets cost an average of 6 percent less than in 2006.