Košice Airport (KSC)

Košice International Airport is Slovakia’s second-largest airport, in the Barca district 6 km south of St Elisabeth Cathedral — about 10 km by road from the centre. It has one terminal, opened in 2004, with arrivals and departures under one roof; Vienna Airport holds the majority stake through KSC Holding, with the Slovak state at 34%.

The network is small and stable: year-round hub links to Vienna (Austrian), Warsaw (LOT), Prague (Ryanair) and Zurich (Swiss, since 2024), low-cost routes to London, Liverpool and Dublin, and a summer charter programme to Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. There are no long-haul flights — intercontinental groups connect through Vienna, Warsaw or Zurich. Bratislava, Rome and Málaga were added for 2025–26.

It handled 739,010 passengers in its centenary year 2024 and a record 827,798 in 2025. Roughly two-thirds of the traffic is scheduled; London Luton, Vienna and Prague are the busiest scheduled routes.

This is an easy airport for groups: one compact terminal, arrivals at ground level, car parks and pay stations directly on the forecourt. There is no second terminal to find — our name board waits in the single arrivals hall and the coach loads on the forecourt outside. The airport is open around the clock, so early charters and late hub arrivals are covered.

The centre and St Elisabeth Cathedral are 15 minutes away — 10 km by road. The D1 motorway runs north-west past Prešov to Poprad, about 110 km, so the High Tatras resorts are around 90 minutes via the Spiš region; Levoča, Spiš Castle and Bardejov all sit inside a day-trip radius.

Choose KSC when the itinerary is eastern Slovakia — Košice, the Spiš UNESCO belt, the Tatras — and the group can fly a hub connection via Vienna, Warsaw, Prague or Zurich or a direct UK or Irish low-cost service. Choose Budapest for a long-haul or a route KSC does not have, and accept about three hours of coach; choose Kraków for low-cost choice into the Tatras from the north. Landing at KSC and departing from Vienna, Bratislava or Budapest — or the reverse — is our standard open-jaw for one-way east–west programmes without a return coach day.

We meet every group with a name board at arrivals and run coach and private transfers and the full programme from the terminal doors, at net rates.