The first commercial flight on route from Prague to Moscow Czechoslovak State Airline was performed on September 2,1936 by Airspeed Envoy AS-6, registration number OK-BAL. In 10 hours the plane covered the distance of 2439 km with 5 intermediate landings in Uzhgorod, Cluj, Yassa, Kiev and Bryansk, and finally reached its destination in Moscow’s Tushino airport..

Preparations for the opening of the official air travel began on May 16, 1935, when the interstate agreement on regular flights between two capitals was signed between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. The first test flight on the proposed airline was made on September 9, 1935, a year before the regular flights’ beginning.

Commercial air traffic between Moscow and Prague was open for public next year - 1 September 1936, when at Kbeli's airport Aeroflot’s ANT-9 (registration number URSS-M26) landed. Czechoslovak State Airlines’ aircraft has taken off for Moscow one day later.

The Airspeed Envoy plane equipped with the Czech Walter engines reached maximum speed of 300 km/h was the fastest airplane in the airline’s fleet at that time and the first airplane with the cleaning-up gear leg. With the seat capacity of 4 passengers.

The crew of the first flight consisted of the chief pilot of ČSA Carel Brabenets piloting historical first flight from Prague to Bratislava on October 29, 1923, the navigator Bedrich Soukup and the flight engineer Vladimir Chadsky. The CEO of Czechoslovak State Airlines Frantisek Stoches and the secretary of the company Willem Bauer were passengers of the first flight also.

Regular flights between Prague and Moscow in 1936 were implemented two times a week. The ticket on flight to Moscow at that time cost 1600 Czechoslovak kroner. At the end of summer season on October 31, 1936 the route has been suspended and renewed in summer season of 1937.

In 1936 the Czechoslovak State Airlines performed regular flights totally in 20 directions, 11 of which were international, 9 domestic. Vienna, Zagreb, Split, Sushak (today Rijeka), Dubrovnik, Kluzh, Bukherest, Yassa, Kiev, Bryansk, Moscow were international. In borders of Czechoslovakia the company performed regular flights to Karlovy Vary, Mariana Lazne, Hradec Kralove, Ostrava, Brno, Bratislava, Pyeshtyana, Koshitsa and Uzhhorod. Total length of all routes which were operated by the ČSA in 1936 constituted 6282 kilometers. The aeronautical personnel of еру airline consisted of 12 pilots and 7 radio operators.

It is interesting that soon after the opening of a route between Prague and Moscow Czechoslovak State Airlines have begun to offer passengers an opportunity of ordering on-board paid food in advance. Since summer of 1937 the airline began to perform flights from new airport Prague-Ruzine, and also in 1937 the first flight attendants appeared on board the ČSA planes.

With this particular route from Prague to Moscow the civil air traffic since World War II has been resumed. On August 4, 1945 at airport Ruzin Aeroflot’s plane going along a route of Moscow-Minsk-Warsaw-Prague has landed. Czechoslovak State Airlines resumed flights to Moscow in 1955 with landing in Vilnius. These flights were made by Il-12B planes till December 8, 1957.

On December 9, 1957 the flight to Moscow has been for the first time executed on a jet aircraft Tu-104A. The Aeroflot has begun using jet planes on this route a year before - since October 12, 1956. Meaning, the Moscow-Prague air route became the first where exclusively jet planes were operated. Along with Aeroflot Czechoslovak State Airlines became one of the first airlines in the world which has begun operating jet planes in civil aviation.

During the whole time of operating on a route to Moscow Czech Airlines carried more than 8 million passengers, almost 20 thousand tons and 9000 tons of mail.

Today between Moscow and Prague Czech Airlines offers 16 flights to / back a week, and by working with code-share partners, meaning with Aeroflot and Travel Service / SmartWings, passengers can choose from 58 flights to / back a week under the OK code.

Furthermore, Czech Airlines performs flights from Prague to six directions in Russian Federation: St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Kazan.

Czech Airlines - one of the four oldest airlines in the world. Czech Airlines is a founding member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and in 2001 it became a member of the global airline SkyTeam alliance. Czech Airlines’ shareholders are Korean Air Lines (44%), Travel Service (34%), Czech Aeroholding (19,735%) and Czech Insurance Company (2,265%). Thanks to the cooperation with partner airlines  during summer season 2016 Czech Airlines’ passengers can benefit from regular services to / from more than 130 destinations in 45 countries.

Over the past 20 years between Prague and Moscow Czech Airlines completed the whole 32 189 flights to / back, flying 114 547 837 kilometers, which is 2858 times greater than the circumference of the globe at the equator.

During the first six months of 2016 the airline carried on all its routes, 1.01 million passengers. In the summer season of 2016 Czech Airlines performs regular flights to 47 destinations in 24 countries of the world. The average annual indicator speaks about growth of volumes by 12%, for the same period of last year 903 thousand passengers have been transported. Czech Airlines has transported 200 thousand more passengers this year on flights of other airlines renting its planes.