Prague Airport resumes normal service after postponing all morning flights

UPDATE: As of 10 a.m., normal services are resumed. Twenty-four arrivals were affected, six flights were canceled, and all morning services had been delayed. Passengers are asked to check for information from their airline just in case.

Heavy fog forced a temporary halt to all arrivals and departures at Prague’s Vaclav Havel International Airport early Wednesday morning, disrupting dozens of flights and prompting reroutes across Central Europe.

“Due to reduced visibility, arrivals and departures are currently postponed,” airport spokeswoman Denisa Hejtmánková said earlier this morning, adding that the disruption could last until around 9:30 a.m. local time, when weather conditions in the surrounding neighborhood are expected to improve.

Though the airport remains operational, flights were diverted to alternate destinations as conditions worsened overnight. According to transport news site Zdopravy, a UPS Boeing 757 freighter originally bound for Prague landed in Budapest before 5 a.m. A cargo flight from Paris diverted to Brno roughly an hour later.

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Passenger flights were also impacted. Hainan Airlines and Qatar Airways jets were rerouted to Berlin and Vienna, respectively, while a China Airlines Airbus A350 from Taipei was diverted to Linz just after 8 a.m.

As of 8 a.m., eight arrivals and 10 departures had been affected, with numbers continuing to rise, Hejtmánková said.

Airport officials urged passengers to monitor updates through the airport’s official communication channels and their airlines. “We will inform you about further developments,” the airport posted on X.

As of 9:45 a.m., the departures and arrivals list on Prague Airport's website appears to show a normal schedule.

Flight operations have also been complicated by ongoing infrastructure work. The main runway has been closed since late March for repairs, shifting all air traffic to a secondary runway less equipped to handle poor weather conditions. The repairs are expected to last through mid-August.