We would like to inform you about the facts regarding terminal charges that occurred after the Consultation Meeting with ATM/ANS Users and airspace users representatives regarding the determination of the Unit Rates of terminal charges for 2026, which took place at the premises of LPS SR, š. p. or online on 23 October 2025.

Pursuant to the Regulation of the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 491/2019 Coll. as amended, which establishes the procedure for determining and calculating the unit rates for the provision of air navigation services and charging zones, two terminal charging zones have been established in the airspace of the Slovak Republic with effect from 1 January 2026:

• Special Terminal Charging Zone STCZ 1 - M. R. Štefánik Airport Bratislava,
• Special Terminal Charging Zone STCZ 2 - Košice, Poprad-Tatry, Piešťany and Žilina airports.

The aforementioned government regulation made it possible to take into account the revised cost plan of LPS SR, š. p. and SHMÚ, and also to update the original estimate of the traffic volumes. As a consequence, with effect from 1 January 2026, the following unit rates of terminal charges will be applied in the newly created charging zones:

• STCZ 1 in the amount of 286.77 €
• STCZ 2 in the amount of 433.52 €.

The number of service units per landing in both charging zones will be determined as the ratio of the number of metric tons of the maximum certified take-off weight of the aircraft to the number 50, raised to the power of 0.5 and rounded to two decimal places.

We believe that the above unit rates take into account the requirements of Users and will contribute to a further increase in the volume of air transport at airports in the Slovak Republic.

The current amount of unit rate of terminal charges are available at Information on charges for air navigation services.

Consultation meeting – Unit Rates of Terminal Charges 2026, ATM/ANS providers

Dear Business Partner,

In accordance with the Regulation (EU) No 2017/373 of March 1, 2017 ATM/ANS providers are obliged to organize a consultation meeting with their users once a year. 

Equally, according to the article 5 (6) of Act No. 213/2019 unit rates of terminal charges for terminal navigation services must be consulted with airspace users every year.

In this regard, we would like to use this opportunity to invite you to consultation meeting, which will take place on 23^th October, 2025 (Thursday) at 9:00 a.m. in the building of the state enterprise Letové prevádzkové služby of the Slovak Republic, Ivanská cesta 93, 823 07 Bratislava.

We would appreciate if you could indicate your participation by the 20^th October 2025 via email
at nikola.scherhauferova@lps.sk and michaela.legelova@lps.sk.

The meeting will be conducted also online (via webex). If you are interested, it is necessary to send
e-mail address to forward the connection link.

Reporting tables and additional information on unit rates of terminal charges for 2026 are attached
to this letter. Please, note that the consultation meeting is foreseen to be held in Slovak language. In case of request from foreign partners, the language might be changed to English.

Thank you in advance for your kind reply.

Kind regards,

JUDr. Miroslav Boháč

CEO

In accordance with the Regulation (EU) No 2017/373 of March 1, 2017 ATM/ANS providers are obliged to organize a consultation meeting with their users once a year. 

Equally, according to the article 5 (6) of Act No. 213/2019 unit rates of terminal charges for terminal navigation services must be consulted with airspace users every year.

In this regard, we would like to use this opportunity to invite you to consultation meeting, which will take place on 31^st  October, 2024 (Thursday) at 9:00 a.m. in the building of the state enterprise Letové prevádzkové služby of the Slovak Republic, Ivanská cesta 93, 823 07 Bratislava.

We would appreciate if you could indicate your participation by the 28^th  October 2024 via email at nikola.scherhauferova@lps.sk and michaela.legelova@lps.sk.

In accordance with the Regulation (EU) No 2017/373 of March 1, 2017 ATM/ANS providers are obliged to organize a consultation meeting with their users once a year. 

Equally, according to the article 5 (6) of Act No. 213/2019 unit rates of terminal charges for terminal navigation services must be consulted with airspace users every year.

In this regard, we would like to use this opportunity to invite you to consultation meeting, which will take place on 26th  October, 2023 (Thursday) at 9:00 a.m. in the building of the state enterprise Letové prevádzkové služby of the Slovak Republic, Ivanská cesta 93, 823 07 Bratislava.

We would appreciate if you could indicate your participation by the 23th  October 2023 via email at nikola.scherhauferova@lps.sk and michaela.legelova@lps.sk.

Starting from 23rd of February 2023 the Aircraft Operators are able to plan their flights freely across the airspace of Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Republic of Moldova and Czech Republic 24/7 without the limitations of the geographical boundaries. The inclusion of the airspace of the Czech Republic represents the third expansion of the SEE FRA project (South East Europe Free Route Airspace, successfully implemented on the 7th of November 2019), thus making possible cross border free route operations across the airspace of the 6 states. Therefore, SEE FRA becomes one of the largest free route airspace blocks in Europe.

In addition to the SEEFRA expansion, the implementation of cross border operations between SEEFRA and BALTIC opens the airspace from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea for free route operations.

The new flight planning rules significantly optimize the flight trajectories not only by using the shortest connections but also allowing the use of the most effective routings when the impacts on the flights are inevitable e.g adverse weather avoidance.

According to the simulations, SEE FRA contributes to a significant reduction of emissions and of millions of miles (NM) daily, from the total mileage.

It should be acknowledged that the Network Manager has a central role as an enabler and driver of the airspace improvements at European level. Thanks to the active involvement and full support of EUROCONTROL Member States and EUROCONTROL Agency, the Aircraft Operators will be able to fly on optimised profiles, using less fuel, hence reducing aviation´s environmental footprint.

Starting from 24th of February 2022 the Aircraft Operators are able to plan their flights freely across the airspace of Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Republic of Moldova 24/7 without the limitations of the geographical boundaries. The inclusion of the airspace of the Republic of Moldova represents the second expansion of the SEE FRA project (South East Europe Free Route Airspace, successfully implemented on the 7th of November 2019), thus making possible cross border free route operations across the airspace of the 5 states. Therefore, SEE FRA becomes one of the largest free route airspace blocks in Europe.

In addition to the SEE FRA expansion cross border operations between SEE FRA and BALTIC FRA are also implemented which makes airspace spanning from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea open for free route operations.

The new flight planning rules significantly optimize the flight trajectories not only by using the shortest connections but also allowing the use of the most effective routings when the impacts on the flights are inevitable e. g. adverse weather avoidance.

According to the simulations, SEE FRA contributes to a significant reduction of emissions and of millions of miles (NM) daily, from the total mileage.

It should be acknowledged that the Network Manager has a central role as an enabler and driver of the airspace improvements at European level. Thanks to the active involvement and full support of EUROCONTROL Member States and EUROCONTROL Agency, the Aircraft Operators will be able to fly on optimised profiles, using less fuel, hence reducing aviation´s environmental footprint.

Starting from 6th of December 2018 the Airline Operators are  allowed to plan their flights freely across the airspace of 4 states - Bulgaria , Hungary, Romania and Slovakia - without the limitations given by the geographical borders. Since 00:01 a.m. local time Slovakia has opened the airspace for the Free route operations.

LPS SR, the Air Navigation Service Provider of Slovakia, has joined the SEEN FRA (South East Europe Night Free Route Airspace) initiative of 3 ANSPs, namely BULATSA, HUNGAROCONTROL and ROMATSA. SEEN FRA itself is a specific volume of the European airspace where the Aircraft Operators are allowed to file their flight plans without the obligation to follow prescribed ATS routes during the night times from the midnight until 0600 a.m. local time.

The new flight planning rules significantly optimize the flight trajectories not only for the sake of the usage of the shortest connections but also to allow the use of the most effective routings when the reaction  to the impacts - like adverse weather avoidance - on the flights is inevitable.

According to the simulations the synergistic effect of all of the improvements has the potential to save daily average 3.200 NM of the total mileage which represents 15 tons of fuel savings and at the end of the day 49 tons less of CO2 emissions.

The positive evolution of the changes in the Central and South-Eastern Europe airspace will continue during the next year. From April 2019 H24 FRA will be implemented within the Slovakian airspace and during summer 2019 the LPS SR will accordingly consider the extension of SEEN FRA availability for a longer part of the day. As of the 7th of November 2019 the 3 countries which started the SEEN FRA initiative (Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania) will extend the availability of cross-border FRA operations for the entire day by bringing into operation the SEE FRA project (South East Europe Free Route Airspace).

The activities related to SEEN FRA/SEE FRA and national FRA projects are in accordance with the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2014 which directs the individual ANSPs to cooperate towards introducing the Free Route Airspace above FL300 (9.000m) throughout Europe by the end of 2021.

The main enabler and driver of the airspace changes at European level is EUROCONTROL, particularly the Network Manager. Thanks to the involvement and good will of all stakeholders, namely EUROCONTROL Member States and EUROCONTROL Agency, the Aircraft Operators will be able to fly on optimised profiles, using less fuel, hence reducing aviation´s environmental footprint.

Letové prevádzkové služby Slovenskej republiky, štátny podnik
Air Navigation Services Provider
Ivanská cesta 93
823 07 Bratislava 216
SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Phone: +421 2 4857 1111
Fax: +421 2 4857 2105
Email: info@lps.sk
www.lps.sk

Having assessed the achievements of LPS SR, š. p., in April 2017 Moody´s Investors Service confirmed the company´s Aaa.sk rating and improved its outlook from ´stable´ to ´positive´. This ranks LPS SR, š. p. among companies with highest ratings in Slovakia.

In December 2016 interview with Ing. Rastislav Primus (Head of ATM Planning and Procedures Department at LPS SR š. p.) was published in ESSP EGNOS BULLETIN, read more at: https://egnos-user-support.essp-sas.eu/new_egnos_ops/content/quarterly-bulletin

In December this year, upon the invitation of LPS SR, Chairman of the ICAO Instrument Flight Procedures Panel and founder of the Air Navigation Institute of Switzerland Beat Zimmermann is coming to Slovakia to provide his PANS-OPS Advanced Refresher/Recurrent Course.

Course Information

Agenda:
PANS-OPS Doc 8168 AMDT #6, especially PBN related criteria:

NEW NAVIGATION SPECIFICATIONS
RNAV SIDs
LNAV
APV BARO (NEW CRITERIA)
SBAS
LP
LPV
LPV200
PUBLICATION AND CHARTING

+ PBN to xLS criteria coming into effect in November 2016

Provided by: Air Navigation Institute of Switzerland (Beat Zimmerman)

Venue: LPS SR headquarters, Ivanská cesta 93, 823 07 Bratislava, Slovakia

Date: 05. – 09. December 2016 (5 working days)

Course cost: 1 600 CHF (Swiss Francs) per participant

Recommended accommodation: NH Bratislava Gate One (special rate for course participants – “booking for event”)

Registration: bz@airnavigationinstitute.ch http://www.ani.aero/ANI_calendar.html

For further information please contact:
Ing. Rastislav PRIMUS
Head of ATM Planning and Procedures Department
Tel.: +421 2 4857 2812
Mob: +421 905 77 2204
e-mail: rastislav.primus@lps.sk