Airlines

The latest information on Slovakia's airlines, focusing on announcements of European regional connections, Slovak airport construction and passenger information

In eastern Slovakia, engineers are developing a hydrogen-powered VTOL aircraft—one of Europe’s most innovative green transport projects.

Slovak hydrogen aircraft project aims for green revolution in the skies

With EU support, a pioneering hydrogen VTOL could replace helicopters and reshape sustainable travel.

WizzAir aircraft

Bratislava Airport to launch direct flights to Bucharest

The airport has seen a marked increase in traveller numbers in recent months.

Norwegian Air last flew the Bratislava-Copenhagen route in 2012 and 2013, before pulling out of the Slovak market. The airline says its re-entry is part of a broader summer push to add new destinations across the Nordic region.

Bratislava-Copenhagen route takes off again after a decade

Norwegian Air restores direct flights linking Slovak capital with the Nordics.

The route to London Stansted will end this autumn.

Ryanair to withdraw from Slovak airport

The low-cost carrier will end its route from Poprad to London Stansted, halving the region’s air links to the UK.

Presentation of credentials by Assadollah Eshragh Jahromi, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Austria and accredited to the Slovak Republic, to Peter Pellegrini, President of Slovakia, on January 29, 2025.

Iran plans direct flights to Bratislava

Tehran seeks new medical tourism opportunities while Slovakia considers trade ties.

By becoming a pilot, Vierka Šidová fulfilled her childhood dream.

She never thought a woman could be a pilot. Now she flies for Wizz Air.

As a child, Vierka Šidová decorated her bedroom with fighter jet stickers. Years later, she made her dream a reality.

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Last year, Bratislava’s M. R. Štefánik Airport handled nearly two million passengers.

Ryanair launches Slovakia’s first direct route to Poland’s Baltic coast

New flights to Gdańsk, Milan, and Bari promise fresh travel options for Slovaks.

Bratislava airport in winter.
The launch of the Košice-Zurich flight on March 27, 2024.

Košice airport offers flights to Switzerland and Croatia

In the first quarter of 2024, Košice airport processed almost 100,000 passengers.

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Janka, a blogger, during the inauguration of the first flight to Athens with Aegean Airlines at the airport in Bratislava on September 14, 2023.

News digest: Whoah! Bratislava airport unveils summer flight plan

A Czech rail operator connects Prague and Ukraine, Dominika Cibulková endorses Pellegrini, and Bratislava events.

News digest: From Košice to "Little London" by plane

How to spend your time in Bratislava, no oil pipeline connecting the capital with Vienna, and an old kidnapping case.

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News digest: Plane from London forced to circle above Košice, unable to land for hours

Slovak-Ukraine border crossing blockade resumed, Zuzana Čaputová in Forbes and soon-to-be flights between Košice and Zadar.

Kaputaş Beach in Antalya, Turkey.

New regular flights will connect Bratislava and popular Turkish resort next summer

Today, it's Ryanair that operates regular flights to Dalaman, Turkey.

Košice airport

New regular flights to connect Košice and Switzerland

SWISS to operate three flights a week.

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Direct flights from Košice to Germany restart

Planes will fly three times a week.

Bratislava airport.

Bratislava will have two new direct flights starting next summer

The routes to Sofia and Zagreb will be operated by Ryanair.

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Bratislava has a new flight connection with Ukraine

The flights will be operated by Ryanair from next January.

Bratislava airport.

Direct flights to Dubai return to Bratislava

They will be operated by the Smartwings airline once a week.

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