Transportation from City Center to Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport
Sydney International Airport is located approximately 8 kilometers south of the city centre. There are options such as taxi, car rental, airport/hotel shuttles and train for transportation from the city center to the airport.
You can reach the airport in an average of 13 minutes by using the trains that depart every 10 minutes to get to the airport from the city center.
It is also possible to get to the airport from Sydney city center by bargaining taxis. The taxi fare between the city center and the airport varies between 45-55 dollars on average.
Those who want to have a more free journey in Sydney can contact the car rental companies located in the airport or the city center and rent a car. You also have the chance to choose the airport shuttles or the shuttles of the hotel you will be staying to go from Sydney city center to the airport. You can find out whether such a service is provided in your hotel by contacting the hotel authorities.
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.