Popular Airport | Gozo Airport |
---|---|
Popular Airlines | |
Approximate Flight Duration | 3 hour 20 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 2745 Km |
Taxi is the fastest and easiest option to get to the airport from the city center of Medina. You can also get to the airport by renting a car or taking a bus.
You can quickly and easily get to Medina Airport by taking a taxi from anywhere in Medina city. Taking a taxi can be a very easy way to get to Medina Airport, which is 20 kilometers away from the city center. You can reach the airport in about half an hour by taxi.
You can easily and economically get to Medina Airport with the buses on which you can get from all the points in the city. The buses, which are more economical than taxis, will take you to Medina Airport comfortably and as fast as possible.
Renting a car is one of the most comfortable options you can choose to go to Medina Airport. You can catch your flight quickly by renting a car from the car rental offices in the city center. Please note that you can rent a car with or without a driver. Hanco, Dheeb, United International Company, Al Miftah, Bin Hadi, Daleel, Rached Al Abairi and Al Wifaq are the companies where you can rent a car.
Located in Medina, one of the most important cities of Saudi Arabia, the Medina Airport is 20 kilometers away from the city center. Medina Airport, which serves for international, intercity and civil flights, is also the fourth busiest airport in Saudi Arabia.
Medina Airport has more than one terminal buildings for domestic and international flights and a large number of services are provided at the airport for the passengers. At Medina Airport, there are the ATMs where you can make your money transactions and a lost property office where you can look for your lost items, as well as a health center where you can apply for your sudden health problems.
In addition to these, there are shopping stores where you can shop before or after your flight, as well as the restaurants and cafés where you can eat and drink in each terminal building.
There is a small heliport in Gozo, but it is closed to international flights. For this reason, for your travels to Gozo you need to fly to Malta Airport firstly and then get to Gozo by using one of the means of public transportation.
The distance between Gozo and Malta International Airport is 40.6 kilometers and travelling between these points lasts approximately 1-1.5 hours by public transportation and 30-35 minutes by private car. Taxis or buses you will see at the exit of Malta Airport terminal building are options you can use for your transportation to the city center. You can also take advantage of the car rental companies located at the airport. In addition to land transportation, you can also get to the city center from the airport by using marine transportation.
There are frequent ferry services from Malta Airport to Gozo ferry terminal and Cirkewwa ferry terminal. For current ferry services and fares, you can obtain information by visiting www.gozochannel.com.
Buses are the most practical and economical options for travelling from the airport to Gozo which is Malta's second largest island after the capital of Malta. It is possible to get to the city center from the airport in approximately 1-1.5 hours by using either shuttle buses operating under the airport transfer service offered by the airport or passenger buses operating in the city. You can get information about shuttle bus services from the bus stops located at the exit of the terminal building or from tourist information offices in the terminal building.
The bus named Airport Bus Shuttle goes directly to the Mgarr Gozo ferry station from Malta Airport. There are also shuttle minibuses with the same route, and the fare you need to pay to get on one of these minibuses is 20 euros. Another option is getting on the bus route 8 from Malta Airport, getting off in Valletta and getting on Gozo Ferry bus. The fare of the bus route 8, which goes to the capital Valletta and lasts for 30 minutes, is 3.47 dollars as of 2016.
There are 4 different express buses carrying passengers to Gozo from Malta Airport: X1, X2, X3 and X4. The bus X1 operating every 3-4 hours goes from the airport to Cirkewwa ferry terminal in Gozo and passes through the city center.
The bus route X2 goes to San Gilijan region, bus route X3 goes to Bugibba and bus route X4 goes to Birzebbugra. The bus route N11, which operates as the night version of the route X1, goes to Cirkewwa and Gozo.
Most of the white taxis you will see after arriving at Malta airport and when you get out of the arriving passenger terminal operate under the airport transfer services and taximeters are available in all taxis. You can make your travel more economical as long as you get on a taxi working with a taximeter.
The fares of the airport taxis vary depending on the season. Different tariffs are applied for day and night. Travelling from the airport to Mgarr Ferry Terminal, the main ferry terminal of Gozo, by taxi costs about 25 euros; you can also go to Cirkewwa Ferry Terminal, another terminal, for about 32 euros.
Since Malta Airport is an international airport, it is possible to see world-famous brands such as Avis, Hertz, Thrifty, Budget, Europcar, Dollar, Sixt, Green Car Rental, Gold Car Rental, Active Car Rental and First Car Rental. With the car that you will rent at Malta Airport, it is very easy to travel to Gozo city center by following the signs and driving on Cirkewwa-Mgarr road. The travel, which is about 40.6 km, will last 1.5 hours.