Transportation from the City Center to Baghdad International Airport
Located 16 kilometers west of Iraq's capital, Baghdad, Baghdad International Airport is operated by the Iraqi Government. The airport, where both civilian and military aircraft take off, is home to Iraqi Airways, the country's national airline. Other companies operating at Baghdad International Airport include Air Arabia, Armenia Air Company, ATA Airlines, Atlas Global, Qatar Airways, THY, Fly Dubai. Baghdad Airport draws attention with its annual passenger capacity of approximately 7.5 million passengers and the ability to host aircraft of all sizes involved in both military and civilian operations. There are regular flights from the airport to other cities of the country such as Erbil, Basra, Mosul and Najaf. There are also flights to international destinations such as Doha, Tehran, Bahrain, Amman, Ankara and Antalya. There is also a paid parking area at Baghdad International Airport. Fees are determined by the duration of use. There are also restaurants, cafes and bars for passengers waiting for their planes at the airport. There are also a lost property office, duty-free sales, clinic, prayer room and ATMs of different banks at the airport, where hotel services are also provided. Those who want to go to Baghdad International Airport from the city center can take advantage of bus and taxi services.
Bus
There are bus services to reach Baghdad International Airport from the city center, but they are not preferred because of the irregularity of the services. It takes approximately 35 minutes to reach the airport from the city center by buses departing in front of the Baghdad Government Office.
Taxi
Taxis can be shown as the easiest way to reach the airport from Baghdad city center. You can reach the airport in approximately 30 minutes by taxi, which you can find at many points in the city center, and the fee is between 55 and 95 Iraqi Dinars.
Baghdad International Airport Contact Information:
Address: Airport St, Baghdad, IRAQ
Telephone number: +964 0790 140 3537
Transportation from Kolkata Airport to City Center
Kolkota Airport or Dum Dum Airport, officially known as Kolkota Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport), is the airport that is the center of all civil air traffic in East India. The Kolkota Airport, which serves a very crowded population, can be reached by using various transportation routes to the city center and the surrounding provinces.
The easiest of these means of transportation is the airport buses that depart frequently from the airport. Air-conditioned buses from West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation (WBSTC) run frequently between the airport and Kolkata. These buses leave for central places in the city such as Howrah, Esplanade, Garia, Santragachi and Tollygunge.
There are buses that depart with a frequency of 10, 20 or 30 minutes depending on your destination. The flights start at 08:00 in the morning and continue until 21:30 in the evening. The WBSTC box office is located on the arrivals floor of the 2nd Terminal building. The contact number is 033-25118238. You can check the official website for the timetable according to your destination.
When you come to India, it is not possible to experience a train. Kolkata Airport is connected to the Kolkata Suburban Railway system and is the first airport in India to join such a train network. The four-kilometer-long elevated track connects the airport station Biman Bandar to the Dum Dum Cantonment train station, passing through Jessore Road stop.
It is worth adding that there are plans to replace this not-so-good railway line with a metro system. You can find the timetable of these trains on the official page of the airport.
If you want to have a more comfortable journey, your best option is to use transportation applications such as taxi or Uber. The taxis here are prepaid, so you pay by telling your destination from the box office in the terminal building before you get in the taxi, and you get on the next taxi with the invoice given to you. Thus, the chance of your taxi driver to drop you in the wrong place is greatly reduced. You can do this from the taxi toll booths between gates 3 and 4 on the arrival floor. You can use this service 24 hours a day.
On the ground floor of the airport arrivals terminal, there are drop-off points specially arranged for transportation applications such as Ola and Uber. You can meet at these points with the vehicles you call from your mobile phone and go anywhere you want easily. In this way, you will have paid your transportation cost online and you will not have to worry about finding cash in a country you have just arrived from.