Transportation from City Center to Colombo Airport
The distance between Colombo city center and Bandaranaike Airport is 32 kilometers. You can use bus, taxi and car rental options to reach the airport from the city center.
The most economical method of transportation from the city center to the airport is buses. Buses numbered 187-E3 serve on the airport route from the city center. It is not possible to find a bus after midnight. Transportation takes an average of 30 minutes.
It is possible to reach the airport in a short time by taxis from different points of the city. The route between the city center and the airport takes about 30-40 minutes by taxi.
You can also provide transportation by renting a car from the rent a car offices in the city or through online reservation.
Transportation from Sultan Ismail Airport to the City Center
Sultan Ismail Airport, which has been used for civil flights since 1949, connects the city of Kota Bharu, located in the east of Malaysia, with the outside world. Sultan Ismail Airport, which is used by approximately 2 million passengers every year, is located 10 km east of the city center. The airport, which has an international status, offers many domestic and international flights. There are regular round-trip flights every day to major cities such as Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kuching and Ipoh. The international flight list, on the other hand, is easily accessible from the airport, which consists of the cities of Guangzhou, Seoul, Vietnam and Jakarta, to the city center with different alternatives.
Bus
Those who want to use the bus option to go from the airport to Kota Bharu city center should first walk to the bus stop located outside the airport and get on the bus with line number 9 from this stop. Operated by the local municipality, these buses operate every hour between 07:00 and 19:00 every day of the week and take approximately 30 minutes to travel. A one-way trip to Kota Bharu city center costs about 2RM.
Taxi
Since public transportation vehicles cannot be used at night, taxis are the most frequently used alternative to reach the city center. It is possible to reach the city center within 15 minutes with the taxis waiting to pick up passengers at the taxi stand located at the exit of the arrival terminal gate. In these taxis, which work with a fixed fee, the fee to be paid for transportation to the city center is 30-40 RM.
Rent a car
There is no official rent a car agency in the airport terminal building. For this reason, those who want to rent a car for transportation to the city center should make a reservation online or by phone from other agencies in the vicinity before the trip.