Minister of Transportation Ales Rebicek of Czech Republic

var RTR_ArticleBlurb = " VIENNA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Czech transport minister Ales Rebicek was quoted as saying on Wednesday that he would advise against selling Prague Airport if bids came in at 50 billion Czech crowns ($2.

Rebicek said he could not rule out Flughafen Wien AG as an investor, as the outcome of the privatisation tender will ultimately be determined by which bidder offers the highest price.

Some 65 parties have shown interested in Prague Airport, which will be privatized in a tender, Czech Transport Minister Ales Rebicek was quoted as saying by Austrian daily Wirtschaftsblatt.

With Prague being the only significant airport in the region to be privatized in 2008 and 2009, I expect a big international tender," Rebicek was quoted as saying.

Rebicek said the successful investor would not be chosen for purely financial reasons since the airport needed a strategic partner.

Asked if he could imagine Vienna airport operator Flughafen Wien as an investor, Rebicek said he could not rule it out, though the price was key.

VIENNA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Czech transport minister Ales Rebicek was quoted as saying on Wednesday that he would advise against selling Prague Airport if bids came in at 50 billion Czech crowns ($2.

Czech transport minister Ales Rebicek was quoted as saying on Wednesday that he would advise against selling Prague Airport if bids came in at CZK50 billion koruny (USD$2.

But if only CZK50 billion were offered I would recommend the government does not sell the airport," Rebicek said in an interview with Austrian newspaper WirtschaftsBlatt.

Rebicek said that he expected around 30 bidders for the airport, fewer than originally thought because some of the purely financial bidders were likely to drop their interest because of the financial crisis.

PRAGUE (AFX) - Czech Transport Minister Ales Rebicek said Tuesday he favoured a long-term lease rather than sale of state-controlled Prague airport.

According to the paper, Rebicek was said, With Prague being the only significant airport in the region to be privatized in 2008 and 2009, I expect a big international tender.

Rebicek said that the winning party would not be picked up for only financial reasons as the facility needed a strategic associate.

paving the way for eventual privatisation.

some ten million passengers each year.

Czech transport minister Ales Rebicek says the government is unlikely to pass plans to privatize Prague Airport until 2010, the year the country is due to go to the polls.

Rebicek says the privatisation process will take some time and believes that the government will not manage it anyway, before 2010.