Digital Maturity of Selected Regional Airports in the Slovak and Czech Republic

The use of digital technologies has become popular in recent years. Digital technologies can be found almost in every sector, with the transport sector being no exception. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a number of restrictions, which have resulted in various measures being taken to reduce the spread of the virus. Therefore, in some cases, it was necessary to introduce digital technologies, in particular the elimination of personal contact, in order to reduce the spread of the virus. Airports had to adapt to this situation if they wanted to survive, so they began to apply various smart solutions to protect passengers' health as much as possible, which of course encouraged digitization at small and regional airports as well. At present, not all regional airports are digitized, whereas efforts to implement digital technologies are very strong. The main goal of this paper is to find out which digital technologies are currently used by regional airports in the Slovak Republic and Czech Republic, and what digital technologies have been introduced as a result of the pandemic. Research has shown that regional airports want to adapt and implement digital technologies, but this is not possible due to their poor financial situation and minimal traffic.