Business travellers heading to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) this week should factor in extra travel time. On 28 September the airport published an urgent notice warning that the long-planned reconstruction of the key Aviatická intersection— the road funnel that channels most private cars, taxis and employee shuttles to Terminals 1 and 2— has entered its most disruptive phase. Heavy machinery has reduced the carriageway to a single lane in each direction, creating tail-backs that already stretched more than two kilometres during Monday’s morning rush. The works form part of a CZK 420 million modernisation programme designed to improve access roads ahead of the 2027 terminal expansion, but in the short term they are hitting punctuality hard. Airport operations managers told local media that some crew transfer buses missed roster check-in windows, forcing airlines to reshuffle staff. Several multinational firms with commuter shuttles from the city’s business parks have moved pick-up times 40 minutes earlier. Public transport is unaffected: the Airport Express rail-link bus and city route 119 use a dedicated lane that remains open. The airport is encouraging travellers to switch to these services or the newly extended metro/bus “D-line” connection until the bottleneck eases—expected in mid-October. For mobility and relocation managers, the advice is clear: update corporate travel policies to reflect longer surface-transfer times, remind assignees about the congestion, and build additional buffer time into same-day visa-run itineraries that require catching tight onward connections from PRG.
