Popular Airport | Thessaloniki - Makedonia Airport |
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Approximate Flight Duration | 1 hour 20 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 1180 Km |
It’s easy to get to Innsbruck Airport using the popular public transport options such as trains and buses from Innsbruck city centre. The only thing you need to do is go to the train station, or find the bus lines that take you directly to the airport. If you don’t have a lot of time, or if you need to get to the plane quickly, then you may chose to take a taxi, or take advantage of the a more comfortable option of car rental. It takes a maximum of 15 minutes to reach Innsbruck Airport from Innsbruck town centre.
You can reach the Innsbruck Airport easily by taking on of the fast inner city trains operated by Austrian Railways (ÖBB). These trains, which are both practical and economic, leave from Innsbruck Mitterweg/Unterführung next to the city centre, and go directly to the airport passing through Innsbruck Westbahnhof’tan (Egger-Lienz-Sraße). The cost for a one-way ticket is 4-7 euro as of 2017. It might be useful to contact Austrian Railways to reserve seats before the day of your flight or get more information about the services that leave every 30 minutes. You can travel comfortably with the train, and the total time to the airport should be 10 minutes.
The buses are just as popular as trains for inner city transport in Innsbruck, and can also take you to the airport from the city centre. The bus line F leaves every 10 minutes from Triumphpforte’den (Leopoldstraße) and takes you to Innsbruck Airport in 13-20 minutes. The F line bus costs 4 euro per one-way ticket, and some of the stops it goes through is Uni-Sportstätten, Steinbockweg, Fischerhäuslweg, Angergasse, Exlgasse ve Bachlechnerstraße.
Taxis are usually not preferred for journeys that are more than a few minutes long in Innsbruck as the inner city transport is quite well developed and connected. And because Innsbruck Airport is 4km from the city, taxis sometimes ask for a higher price, especially from tourists. For this reason, if you do want to take a taxi, we recommend that you use the airport taxis that apply a night and day fixed rate. If you do want to use a private taxi company then you can take note of a few of these: Innsbruk Taxi (+436506368830), Dolphin Taxi (+43512580909), Airport Transfer & Taxi Alpstria (+436507111294) and Taxi 5311 (+4351253110). It costs around 15-18 euro to get from Innsbruck city centre to Innsbruck Airport by private taxi.
Innsbruck is a city that offers a lot in terms of rental services. The biggest advantage of this is that you can choose the most suitable local or international rental agency that is suited to your budget. The car rental companies that have agencies in both Innsbruck Airport and Innsbruck city centre include, Avis and Budget (+435125717540), Europcar Österreich (+4318661660), Hertz (+43512580901), Megadrive (+43501054150) and Sixt (+435122929390). You can take Fürstenweg and B171 routes to get to Innsbruck Airport from Innsbruck and arrive in 5-6 minutes.
Innsbruck Airport, that’s also known as Kranebitten Airport, is the biggest airport in the Tyrol region of Austria. Innsbruck Airport that opened for flights in 1925 is located in Innsbruck, one of the most touristic cities of Austria. According to the 2015 statistics Innsbruck served over one million passengers in one year. It’s located 4km from Innsbruck. There are direct flight from Vienna, the capital of Austria, and some of the other airlines that offer flights to Innsrbuck Airport are British Airways, Czech Airlines, Eurowings, easyJet, Finnair, Thomson Airways and more. You can shop at the Duty Free & Travel Value Shop at Innsbruck Airport, buy things you might need from MPREIS supermarket, or have something to eat or drink at Ruetz Bakery, Caffe Testa Rossa and Fly Inn Bistro.
Thessaloniki, which has the most crowded population after the capital Athens in Greece, bears the traces of hosting three great civilizations throughout the history. It is possible to come across the traces the Roman Era on a street and see the magnificent Byzantine churches on another street as well as you can come across the historical artifacts of the Ottoman period in the city.
The city, which has become one of the most important attraction centers of the world today with the historical heritage, attracts people with its nightlife as well. The airport of the city was named as Macedonia Airport since the city is known as "Macedonia of Greece". Located in the southern part of the city, this international airport is only 14 kilometers away from the city center. In addition, compared to other airports, Thessaloniki Airport is preferred by many passengers since affordable flight tickets are available for transportation to Europe from the airport. Thessaloniki offers very limited alternatives in terms of public transportation options. You can reach nearly 80 points in the city only by bus.
In addition to the regular bus services, a bus allocated to tourists offers one-hour free sightseeing. Apart from the bus option, another transportation option in the city is to take a taxi. Other than the buses that depart in front of the terminal buildings of the airport, you can go on your journey by taking a taxi or renting a car from the offices in the terminal building.
You can prefer to take a taxi if you don’t want to lose time and enjoy a comfortable journey in Thessaloniki that has limited transportation options. You can reach the city center after a taxi journey that takes about half an hour. It is also possible to book a taxi in advance through the website of Yattaxi, which is the contracted taxi company that provides taxi services at the airport.
Macedonia (Thessaloniki) Airport provides 24-hour uninterrupted bus services every day for the passengers it hosts at the airport. The buses 78, 78A and 78N, which you can take to reach the city center, run at different departure times. The bus number 78A departs once a day at 5 a.m.
The bus number 78 departs every 45 minutes between 5 am and 10 pm. The bus number 78N provides transportation to the city center between 22:30 and 04:30 from the night until the morning. Your journey by these bus lines that allow you to get to the city center and the railway station directly takes about 45 minutes.
The car rental option, which is not preferred so frequently compared to other options for transportation from Macedonia (Thessaloniki) Airport to the city center, is provided inside the terminal buildings. The car rental companies providing this service are Sixt, Europcar, Hertz, Cardelmar and Figame.