Carriage of Excess/Bulky Baggage
If you are travelling with bags which exceed the standard baggage limits, do not worry.
Now you can purchase excess baggage allowance over the Internet one third cheaper than at the airport. For more, read here.
EXCESS BAGGAGE WEIGHT LIMIT FEE OVERVIEW
| ZONE I | Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Bologna, Bratislava, Brno, Brussels, Budapest, Bucharest, Cologne, Copenhagen, Cracow, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Helsinki , Kosice, Ljubljana, London, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Munich, Oslo, Ostrava, Paris, Rome, Skopje, Sofia, Split, Strasbourg, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tatry, Venice, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zilina, Zurich | 300 CZK/11 EUR* per 1 kg of overweight | 600 CZK/22 EUR* per 1 kg of overweight | 900 CZK/33 EUR* per 1 kg of overweight |
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| ZONE II | Athens, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Ekaterinburg, Heraklion, Istanbul, Kiev, Kuwait, Larnaca, Minsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Odessa, Riga, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Vilnius, Yerevan | 600 CZK/22 EUR* per 1 kg of overweight | 600 CZK/22 EUR* per 1 kg of overweight | 900 CZK/33 EUR* per 1 kg of overweight |
| ZONE III | Almaty, Tashkent | 900 CZK/33 EUR* per 1 kg of overweight | 900 CZK/33 EUR* per 1 kg of overweight | 900 CZK/33 EUR* per 1 kg of overweight |
* Equivalent in EUR will be re-calculated at the current CZK/EUR exchange rate at the time the fee is collected.
Non-standard/Oversized Baggage and Overweight Baggage
You will be charged the appropriate fee for non-standard/oversized baggage (e.g. ski equipment) or for exceeding the baggage weight allowance.
Non-standard/Oversized baggage fee:
- CZK 250 /departures from Prague/
- EUR 10 or the equivalent amount in local currency /departures from abroad/ (effective as of 15 July 2009)
There is a service fee of CZK 150 for excess baggage /departures from Prague, Brno, Ostrava and Karlovy Vary/.
The excess baggage or non-standard/oversized baggage is carried on the same aircraft, provided that the necessary space is available or has been reserved in advance.
Valuable, fragile, or easily breakable items (e.g., musical instruments, chandeliers, etc.), wrapped in protective packaging, may be taken on board and carried on a separate seat. For such an item, the passenger must have a seat confirmed in advance, together with his/her own seat. When reserving a seat for baggage, its dimensions and weight must be provided. For safe carriage in a seat, the item must not exceed 20 kg (44 lb) and its dimensions must not exceed 42 cm (16.5 in) in width, 41 cm (16.1 in) in depth, and 80 cm (31.5 in) in height for any type of aircraft. A fee equal to the fare charged for an adult passenger shall be charged for baggage carried in a seat.
For details about carrying baggage, see the Conditions of Carriage.
Baggage as a Cargo Shipment
If you travel with excess baggage (i.e. baggage exceeding in weigh, number or size the baggage allowance included in the ticket price), we can offer you its carriage at more advantageous prices. If you have your baggage carried as a cargo shipment, you can take advantage of significant savings on excess baggage charges. The cargo shipment procedure is quite simple. More information here.
Check the section Carriage of Standard Baggageto see what baggage meets the weight and size limits for free carriage.
