Transportation from Athens City Center to Athens Airport
The distance between Athens city center and the airport is 20 km. Metro, train, bus, taxi, private car and car rental options are used to reach the airport from the city center.
It is possible to reach the airport by using the X95 bus line from Syntagma Square, where the Greek National Assembly is also located. In addition, more than 10 bus lines from different parts of the city go to the airport.
Syntagma Square is a hub for the rail system. You can reach the airport directly from Syntagma Square with the M3 rail system. There is also a train line from Piraeus Port to the Airport.
You can reach the airport by using taxis from all over the city. It is among the suggestions to ask the price before getting into the taxi. In addition, it is possible to make your airport journey in a short time by renting a car through car rental offices and internet reservation.
Transportation from Christchurch Airport to City Center
Located on the Canterbury plains, Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and has a very busy international airport.
Christchurch Airport is located in the Harewood Neighborhood, 12 km northwest of the city centre. There are public transportation, taxi, shuttle and private vehicle options to get to the city from the airport, which was opened in 1940.
There are two city buses running from the airport to Christchurch city centre. Purple bus from the airport on the way to Summer via Avonhead and Riccarton and number 29 to the city center via Fendalton.
Apart from these, bus number 125 to Halswell is one of the public transportation options serving Christchurch Airport. It takes 20-30 minutes to get from Christchurch Airport to the city center with buses that leave every half hour on weekdays and every hour on weekends, and the bus ticket can be bought from the driver.
You can leave the gate number 9 of the international arrivals terminal and take the bus number 29 or the purple bus next to Novotel. There are also buses that you can take for almost half the price of city buses, if you walk for five minutes from the terminal and take the risk of getting on just outside the airport.
It takes 15-20 minutes to go to Christchurch from the airport by taxi, and apart from official taxi companies, vehicles that can be called via the phone application such as Uber, Zoomy and Ola can also come to the airport and pick up passengers.
Vehicles called from the application must wait at the passenger pick-up point behind the Express Park building after exiting the terminal. These types of vehicles pay an extra fee to pick up passengers from the airport and add this to your fare.
Shuttles from Christchurch Airport to the city center pick up passengers from gates 7 and 8 of the international arrivals terminal and drop them off at the gate of their destination. It takes 30 minutes to reach the city using these vehicles.
Another useful means of transportation in Christchurch is electric cars, which can be rented hourly or daily via a phone application called Zilch. With zero carbon emissions, you can drive from Christchurch Airport to the city center without harming the environment, and you can even explore the city with this vehicle for the rest of the day.
You can pick up the Zilch car you reserved through the application behind the Express Park building and leave it at The Crossing or West End car parks in the city center.