Poprad–Tatry Airport

Poprad–Tatry Airport (Slovak: Letisko Poprad-Tatry) (IATA: TAT, ICAO: LZTT) is an airport in the Slovak ski resort town of Poprad. It is an airport with one of the highest elevations in Central Europe, at 718 m, which is 150 m higher than Innsbruck Airport in Austria, and 989 m lower than Samedan Airport in Switzerland.

Poprad–Tatry Airport

Letisko Poprad-Tatry
Summary
Airport typePublic
ServesPoprad, Slovakia; Zakopane, Poland
Elevation AMSL2,356 ft / 718 m
Coordinates49°04′25″N 20°14′28″E
Websiteairport-poprad.sk
Map
TAT
Location of airport in Slovakia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
09/27 8,530 2,600 Concrete
07R/25L 2,493 760 Grass
07L/25R 2,493 760 Grass

Services

The airport serves schedule and charter airline operations, is a base for search and rescue air services, and handles general aviation. It does not offer any domestic flights. Charter flights are mainly operated in winter. Medical flights, VIP flights, ad hoc charters and ACMI flight also operate from the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Wizz Air UK is currently the only operator with regularly scheduled flights to and from Poprad–Tatry Airport, connecting only Luton Airport operating two to three weekly flights:[1]

AirlinesDestinations
Wizz Air London–Luton

Statistics
Annual passenger traffic at TAT airport. See source Wikidata query.

Passenger throughput and operations since 2014:[2][3]

Year Passengers Change
2000 12,780 N/A
2005 18,335 N/A
2010 27,693 N/A
2013 24,565 N/A
2014 31,694 +29.0%
2015 85,224 +172.7%
2016 84,030 -1.4%
2017 80,605 -4.1%
2018 88,387 +9.7%
2019 94,249 +6.5%

Accidents and incidents

On December 20, 1980, a East German Interflug Flight 302, a Tupolev Tu-134 en route from Berlin Schönefeld to Budapest Ferenc Liszt received a bomb threat, saying that the bomb would go off once the plane descends lower than 600 meters. Since the Poprad Airport is located at 718 meters, the plane was diverted there. Upon landing, a backpack was found which did not belong to any of the passengers.[4]

References
  1. airport-poprad.sk - Flight Schedule retrieved 9 April 2022
  2. "Airport Poprad - Tatry". Airport-poprad.sk. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  3. "Výkony letísk". mindop.sk. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  4. "Bombe bei Interflug". Der Spiegel. 1980–1981. Archived from the original on 2013-09-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)

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