Transportation from the City Center to Afonso Pena International Airport
Afonso Pena International Airport serves Curitiba, Brazil. Since it serves a city with a population of approximately 2 million, there are many vehicles going from the city center to the airport. The most economical of these vehicles is to use the buses that pass through the airport or nearby.
You can get to the airport in 12 minutes by bus number 515, which you will take from the central bus terminal (Terminal Central). The flights operate between 05.00 and 23.20 hours. The stops in between are Avenida das Américas, Avenida das Torres and Travessa Guaporé. You can find detailed information about the lines in the city, including the bus number 515 operated by Auto Viação São José dos Pinhais (Tel +55 41 2169 4321), on the official website of the bus company.
You can easily reach the airport from Terminal Boqueirão by bus number E32. The flights operate between 06.00 in the morning and 23.20 in the evening on weekdays, and between 06.20 in the morning and 22.25 in the evening on weekends. The journey averages 8 km and takes about 23 minutes.
Airport shuttle service Aeroporto Executivo, which you can get on from the city center, takes its passengers to the airport in approximately 30 minutes. Among the stops of this shuttle are Rodoferroviária, Teatro Guaíra, Receita Federal, Biblioteca Pública, Rua 24 Horas and Shopping Estação. You can get on this shuttle between 05:30 in the morning and 00:00 at midnight.
You can also use a taxi for a more comfortable and faster journey to the airport. Taxis here are operated by the government of São José dos Pinhais. You can easily find a taxi in the city. The journey time from Curitiba to the airport takes 20-30 minutes depending on the traffic situation. By calling a vehicle from the Uber application, you can arrive at the airport in the same time on average.
Transportation from Brasília Airport to Brasília City Center
Brasília-Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport is the only airport in the city of Brasilia and there are many different vehicles to reach the city center.
One of them is special buses called “Ônibus Executivo”. These buses numbered 113, 113.1 and 113.2 carry passengers from the airport between the Brasília Convention Center and the North and South Hotel areas.
Buses run every 35 minutes between 07:05 and 20:50, Monday to Saturday, and the journey takes approximately 70 minutes. These buses do not run on holidays. Travel ticket price is only paid on the bus and again only in cash.
Another way to reach the city of Brasília is by city buses. In Brasília, which has a very developed public transport network, it is possible to find municipal buses that go to many parts of the city from the airport. You may need to transfer to the city center. You can check the BSB.aero website for a list of all lines passing through the airport.
The city of Brasília is a city where transportation applications such as UBER are used frequently. There is also a special place at the airport designed for this service. If you follow the "Praça Pick-up" signs at the airport, you will see your UBER driver waiting for you there.
Since pirate taxis are common here, he specifically warns airport passengers not to believe the people who approach you and say that you are your UBER driver, and to only get into the car with the license plate you see in the application.