Poprad–Tatry Airport (TAT)

Poprad–Tatry Airport (IATA TAT, ICAO LZTT) is the High Tatras’ own airport: about 5 km west of Poprad’s centre and 15 km south of the mountains, at 718 m — one of the highest-lying airports in Central Europe. Poprad sits on the D1/E50 corridor, roughly 110 km from Košice and 330 km from Bratislava by road.

It is small by design: one terminal with an arrivals hall and a Schengen-compliant departures hall opened in 2014, one 2,600 m runway, and about 112,000 passengers in 2025 (120,000 in 2024). It handles scheduled and charter flights and general aviation; there are no domestic flights.

The scheduled network is short: Wizz Air flies London–Luton year-round (since 2014), Gdańsk in season and Prague from late October 2026; Arkia serves Tel Aviv in season. The rest is holiday charters — winter sun to Egypt, summer to Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Tunisia and Albania. The London route runs all year, with its biggest peaks in winter.

What operators get is reliability rather than reach: very few fog days, and the diversion airport for Košice, Sliač, Žilina and Bratislava.

Where the coach meets the group: TAT is a one-building airport — arrivals and departures share the terminal and the car park sits directly beside it. Our name-board meet & greet waits at the arrivals exit, so a group is on the coach within minutes of collecting its bags — no shuttle, no second terminal.

Coach times in normal traffic: Starý Smokovec, 12 km, about 15 minutes; Tatranská Lomnica, 18 km, about 20 minutes; Štrbské Pleso, 23 km, about 30 minutes. Jasná in the Low Tatras is 68 km — about an hour via the D1. Eastwards, Levoča is 25 km from Poprad and Spiš Castle about 45 km, so the UNESCO Spiš belt fits inside the transfer day to Košice, roughly 110 km and 1.5 hours away.

Which airport for the High Tatras: choose Poprad when the group can use the London, Gdańsk or Prague flights or arrives on a charter — no border, and the mountain hotels are 15–30 minutes from the terminal. When the origin is not served, most Tatras groups fly Kraków (KRK), 165 km and about 2.5 hours away with Poland’s largest regional network, or Vienna and Budapest; Košice (KSC) suits programmes that continue east. We quote both patterns and run the ground either way, including open-jaw programmes that land in Poprad and leave from Kraków, Vienna or Budapest, at net rates.

On departure day, check-in opens two hours before the flight and closes 40 minutes before international departures; we time the coach to that window.