M. R. Stefanik International Airport

M. R. Štefánik Airport, also called – especially in English – Bratislava Airport, located approximately 9 km northeast of the city center of Bratislava, spanning over the area of three municipalities. It is the main international airport of Slovakia. Shortly after the independence of Slovakia in 1993, it was named after general Milan Rastislav Štefánik, whose aircraft crashed near Bratislava in 1919.