Popular Airport | Groningen Eelde Airport |
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Popular Airlines | |
Approximate Flight Duration | 6 hour 30 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 5235 Km |
If you travel by plane from Kabul, you need to reach Kabul International Airport (Hamid Karzai International Airport). From Kabul International Airport, you can travel to many destinations with many airlines. Turkish Airlines also organizes seven flights a week from Istanbul to Kabul. The journey from Kabul to Istanbul lasts 5 hours.
There is a time difference of 2 hours and 30 minutes between Kabul and Turkey. For example, when it is 10.30 am in Kabul, the clock may still show 08.00 am in Turkey. But Afghanistan does not apply day light saving time. Therefore, time difference with Kabul is 2 hours 30 minutes in winter and 1 hour 30 minutes in summer. When you travel from Kabul to Istanbul, it is useful to consider these differences.
There is still no advanced urban transportation network in Kabul. Due to the fact that the city is located in a mountainous area, the rail system does not exist in this area. Buses and taxis are the most commonly used means of transportation within the city. You can also choose to walk to the airport instead of driving. Obtaining a map of Kabul would help you not to encounter problem with urban transportation.
The bus is one of the most used vehicles in urban transportation in Kabul. Buses in the city are comfortable and modern. But the direction information and the numbers of the buses are in Pashtun. You can find out which buses go to Kabul International Airport if you would have a Pashtun dictionary with you a guide on this subject on your own.
Visitors often prefer to take taxis for transportation in Kabul. Many of the taxi drivers know a little English. But just in case, you would write that you want to go to Kabul International Airport in local language on a paper and give it to the taxi driver.
You can rent a car to go to Kabul International Airport and get rid of the stress of catching the plane. With the car you will rent, you will not need to carry your heavy luggage between long distances on public transport vehicles.
Kabul International Airport, which connects Afghanistan's capital city Kabul to many points of the world, offers a more comfortable and enjoyable flight experience to its passengers with the renovation works. Improvements at the airport have resulted in the addition of a new international terminal and the old terminal is now being used for domestic flights.
Airline companies such as Turkish Airlines (THY), Emirates, Flydubai, Air India, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Ariana Afghan, Safi Airways, Kam Air, Mahan Air, SpiceJet, East Horizon Airlines and Iranian Aseman Airlines provides flights to Kabul. The airport of the city has free Wi-Fi, a duty free, currency exchange and ATM.
At the same time, you can eat at the restaurants in the terminal, and make benefit of the post office and car parking. It is not advised to have an alcoholic drink with you on your way to Kabul. It is a crime to have an alcoholic drink with you when you land here.
Taxi and car rental companies can help you to get to the city center 15 kilometers away from Groningen Airport as soon as possible and comfortably. Apart from this, the distance between the airport and the city center is short, so the express buses, which are the only public transportation means, also provide transportation services at reasonable prices.
The most practical way to reach the city center of Groningen from the airport is to use the Qbuzz buses. There are express buses to Groningen city center and other parts of the city departing from the bus stops outside the airport terminal building. If you go take bus number 2, named Qbuzz, you can go to the Groningen railway station in the city, Grote Markt and Groningen Noord. The stops on the bus line, the Qbuzz 100 are Groningen Airport, Groningen railway station, Grote Markt, UMCG and Damsterdiep.
The city taxis waiting at the Groningen Airport terminal provides transportation to the city center in 20 minutes. You can get service at fixed price tariffs if you prefer taxi companies affiliated with the airport.
The Groningen airport terminal hosts world known the offices of car rental companies such as Avis (+310505271503), Hertz (+310505254536), Europcar (+310505733233) and Sixt (+310235698656). If you follow the A28 motorway at the exit of the airport, you can reach Groningen city center in 20-25 minutes.