article_snippet.sent: Prague international airport has been forced to hire porters to carry passengers’ luggage up 32 stairs because a multi-million pound construction project didn’t budget for an escalator.
article_snippet.sent: That means porters are left to carry travellers’ heavy bags up and down the steep stairs at Nadrazi Veleslavin station, in north-west Prague, from 5am to 10pm every day, free of charge.
article_snippet.sent: Porters are carrying passengers' luggage up and down the stairs at Nadrazi Veleslavin station every day .
article_snippet.sent: One of the porters, Radek Mojzis, a 23-year-old student at Prague's School of Economics, told the Associated Press that he applied for the job because he wants ‘to stay fit and help the elderly.
article_snippet.sent: He added: ‘Costs for [porters] are in tens of thousands of Czech crowns per month but for the airport it is primarily an investment into the comfort and quality of service rather than cost only.’ Jiri Stabl, a spokesman for the Prague Public Transport Company, told AP that a multi-million pound construction project is delayed and ‘a multi-million pound construction project became impossible’ to change the original plan to include an escalator for those transferring from the nearest metro station to the bus terminal.