Popular Airport | Vilo Acuna Airport |
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Approximate Flight Duration | 16 hour 10 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 13044 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.
Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport is only 10 kilometres to the city centre, which is famous for its various hotels. After the passengers have landed at Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport, they can go to the city centre by taxis or shuttles waiting for the visitors outside the terminal building of the airport.
You can pay your taxi fare in CUC, which is the currency used by the tourists. Taxi fare is not so high for the journey close to the neighbourhoods of Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport. If you would like to know how much you will have to pay more or less in advance, you can first ask the taxi drivers and then head to the city centre.
Other than taxi, hotel shuttles are provided as an alternative to the passengers of Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport by some hotels in the city either either free of charge or at a reasonable price. If you consider using these shuttles, you should contact your hotel you will stay in Cayo Largo Del Sur and make your reservation by indicating the number of persons that will use this service.
Taxis are generally the first choice of the passengers that land at Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport to get to the city centre from the terminal of the airport. You can pay the taxi fare in CUC, which is the currency used by the foreign visitors that come to the country. It generally takes less than 10 minutes to arrive city centre from Cayo Largo Del Sur Airport. You can easily load your luggages in the taxi boot and arrive your hotel very fast. It generally costs around 5-6 CUC to get to the hotels’ area from the airport by taxi. Do not forget to agree on the price with the taxi driver before taking a taxi.
The hotel you will stay in Cayo Largo Del Sur might have the shuttle service for its customers’ transportation from the airport either free of charge or as a paid service. You can either call or email your hotel in advance to ask for this service to get to the city centre and your hotel by shuttles.