Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz signed a protocol with his Czech counterpart, Pavel Dobes, Thursday, allowing additional airlines to operate regular service between Israel and the Czech Republic. The additional service includes code-sharing agreements between airlines of the two countries as well as airlines from other countries who can sell seats on flights between the two countries.

Each country will have the authority to assign additional airlines to the Tel Aviv-Prague route and carriers in the two countries can open new routes.