Train In The City, Brno, Czech Republic

In 1939 Brno was annexed by Nazi Germany along with the rest of Moravia and Bohemia. After the war, and the reestablishment of the Czechoslovak state, the ethnic German majority population was expelled or killed.
Public transport infrastructure consists of 13 tram (streetcar), 13 trolleybus, 37 day buses, 11 night bus lines and 1 ship (dam) routes (State April 2010). Service is provided mainly by Dopravní Podnik Města Brna (Brno City Transportation Company). Planned light rail line, which will run in a tunnel through the city centre, should minimize congestion of surface streetcars.
Brno is served by Czech Airlines (codeshared by Air France, KLM, Alitalia and Aeroflot), Ryanair, Atlant Soyuz and Smart Wings from Brno-Tuřany Airport.