Popular Airport | Thessaloniki - Makedonia Airport |
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Popular Airlines | |
Approximate Flight Duration | 1 hour 30 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 1317 Km |
Gaziantep Oğuzeli Airport is located 20 kilometers southeast of the city center. The airport, which serves in the civilian category, also hosts international flights.
Different alternatives are at your service in Gaziantep to get to the airport from the city center.
HAVAŞ shuttle services are a good alternative if you want to reach the airport from the city center. The stops on the shuttle route are as the follows: HAVAŞ City Office, Nizip Street, Mezarlık Crossing, İpek Yolu (Silk Road), Çimento Crossing, Perilikaya Et ve Balık Kurumu, Oğuzeli Crossing, and Gaziantep Airport.
Municipal buses are one of the best options to get to the airport. Thanks to the municipal buses, you can directly get to the airport at affordable prices. There are buses to the airport at 50-minute intervals from Balıklı Square in the city center.
Traffic may sometimes be dense in Gaziantep city center and we recommend you to keep this in mind before you drive. So, you can easily find a solution for transportation to get to the airport by your car or the car rental option. If you want, you can leave your car at the airport, which offers 400 parking lots.
There are many services available at the airport for you. If you prefer, you can relax or arrange your business meetings in the VIP lounge, as well as you can enjoy shopping. In addition, if you feel hungry, the delicacies of Gaziantep cuisine will be available for you at the airport.
Thessaloniki, which has the most crowded population after the capital Athens in Greece, bears the traces of hosting three great civilizations throughout the history. It is possible to come across the traces the Roman Era on a street and see the magnificent Byzantine churches on another street as well as you can come across the historical artifacts of the Ottoman period in the city.
The city, which has become one of the most important attraction centers of the world today with the historical heritage, attracts people with its nightlife as well. The airport of the city was named as Macedonia Airport since the city is known as "Macedonia of Greece". Located in the southern part of the city, this international airport is only 14 kilometers away from the city center. In addition, compared to other airports, Thessaloniki Airport is preferred by many passengers since affordable flight tickets are available for transportation to Europe from the airport. Thessaloniki offers very limited alternatives in terms of public transportation options. You can reach nearly 80 points in the city only by bus.
In addition to the regular bus services, a bus allocated to tourists offers one-hour free sightseeing. Apart from the bus option, another transportation option in the city is to take a taxi. Other than the buses that depart in front of the terminal buildings of the airport, you can go on your journey by taking a taxi or renting a car from the offices in the terminal building.
You can prefer to take a taxi if you don’t want to lose time and enjoy a comfortable journey in Thessaloniki that has limited transportation options. You can reach the city center after a taxi journey that takes about half an hour. It is also possible to book a taxi in advance through the website of Yattaxi, which is the contracted taxi company that provides taxi services at the airport.
Macedonia (Thessaloniki) Airport provides 24-hour uninterrupted bus services every day for the passengers it hosts at the airport. The buses 78, 78A and 78N, which you can take to reach the city center, run at different departure times. The bus number 78A departs once a day at 5 a.m.
The bus number 78 departs every 45 minutes between 5 am and 10 pm. The bus number 78N provides transportation to the city center between 22:30 and 04:30 from the night until the morning. Your journey by these bus lines that allow you to get to the city center and the railway station directly takes about 45 minutes.
The car rental option, which is not preferred so frequently compared to other options for transportation from Macedonia (Thessaloniki) Airport to the city center, is provided inside the terminal buildings. The car rental companies providing this service are Sixt, Europcar, Hertz, Cardelmar and Figame.