Bratislava Airport
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Bratislava's MR Stefanik The Airport (IATA: BTS, ICAO:. LZIB; Slovak: Letisko Milana Rastislava štefánika or Letisko Bratislava) is the international commercial airport in the Slovak capital Bratislava. The country 's largest and most important airport is located 9 km northeast of the city center in the district Ružinov and produced in 2010 over 1.6 million passengers per year.
History
The airport was built in the years 1947 to 1951. Predecessor was the airport closed today in the district Vajnory with the first regular scheduled flight in 1923. Meantime, the torn and replaced the terminal area A was built in 1970, extended the two take-off and landing strips in the 1980s.
In 1993 the airport to the Milan Rastislav Stefanik was named politician, who was killed in a plane crash in Bratislava in 1919. The main building A was redeveloped in the 1990s; In 1994 the opening of the area as
In February 2005, landed at the summit meeting between George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin Air Force One on the Bratislava airport. A year later, the terminal part C was completed and opened.
As part of the privatization of state enterprises and the Slovak airport in August 2005 was announced. First, there were 35 applicants who were reduced in autumn in a pre-selection procedure to five. In January 2006, received the Austrian consortium TwoOne, consisting of lying in the immediate vicinity Austrian airport Wien- Schwechat, is the long been a collaboration, Raiffeisen International and the Slovak financial group Penta Investments SR, the tender and acquired 66 % share in the airport. After a change of government in the summer of 2006, however, the Slovak Competition Authority has completed the sale of this consortium prohibited under formal defects. The new Slovak government decided in this context, not to privatize the airport. However, experts close for the future cooperation between the two airports because of the geographical proximity is not sufficient.
On 17 December 2008, the construction of a new terminal has begun. On 9 June 2010, a part of the new terminal was opened and until the spring of 2011, the old Terminal A demolished.
In 2011, was planned by the government to win a tender for a strategic partner for 30 years. As before, however, is the airport operator to 50.3 % owned by the National Property Fund of the Slovak Republic (Slovak rear národného majetku Slovenskej Republiky ) and 49.7 % owned by the Ministry of Transport (Slovak Slovenská republika v zastúpení Ministerstvom dopravy, výstavby a regionálneho rozvoja Slovenskej republiky )
In July 2012, the last part of the new terminal was opened with a capacity of 5 million passengers. With a total investment of 96 million euros, the new terminal is one of the largest infrastructure investment of Slovakia.
Terminal building
The Bratislava airport has one terminal with three areas. Opened in 2010, the area A1 replaces the former Terminal A is for departing passengers, the two regions B and C are arriving travelers from non- Schengen area (B) and the Schengen area (C).
Airlines and destinations
Bratislava Airport is served by a few airlines mainly to European destinations, including London and Košice. The longest routes lead to Tel Aviv and Moscow. In the summer charter flights are offered in particular to the Mediterranean. Air Slovakia had to adjust the flight operation in the spring of 2010 with its head office at Bratislava Airport, the insolvent Sky Europe operating a base here. Largest airline Ryanair is currently on site.
Location and transport connection
The airport is located in the city of Bratislava, on the D1 motorway, which may be used up to this exit from Bratislava coming without vignette. The urban bus number 61 connects the airport to the main train station / center of Bratislava, the journey takes about 25 minutes. The airport is only 55 km from Vienna -Schwechat Airport and has its catchment area in the four countries Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary. There is also a direct bus from Vienna, Schwechat Airport, Bratislava bus station and the airport. This connection should be in the distant future be replaced by a rail- link.