Enough tourists! Prague council rejects construction of second runway

The Prague council failed to recommend a change to the city's master plan that would enable the construction of a new runway at the Vaclav Havel Airport Prague. The decision isn't the last word on the matter, as the entire city assembly is expected to vote on the matter. Airport planners have been counting on the construction of a parallel runway for years, claiming that the airport's capacity to deal with the growing number of passengers was already stretched dangerously thing. In 2019, 17.8 million people passed through the airport. The second runway, whose construction was to begin in 2025, would allow this figure to grow to 30 million passengers annually. The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically reduced those numbers and debate has erupted among the city's leadership whether Prague should encourage further growth in the number of tourists travelling to the capital.