The beginnings of regular air traffic in Bratislava and its surroundings date back to the first Czechoslovak Airlines flight from Prague to Bratislava on October 29, 1923 when a biplane AERO A-14 landed in Vajnory with a single passenger on board. Even back then in the post-war period it was quite clear that the proximity of the Small Carpathians mountain range will restrict the development of air traffic in Vajnory Airport and the construction of the largest Slovak airport thus began to take place in the vicinity of the village of Ivanka pri Dunaji in 1946. This was the very beginning of the history of the current Letisko M. R. Štefánika – Airport Bratislava.