Popular Airport | Athens Intl. Airport |
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Approximate Flight Duration | 1 hour 50 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 1508 Km |
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Transportation to Airport from Lugano City Center
Lugano Airport
The distance between Agno Airport and Lugano city center is approximately 6 kilometers. If you do not have any luggage, you can walk to the airport, and this does not take much time. You can also benefit from other options. Taxi, shuttle bus, train and car rental are among your alternatives for this short transportation.
Taxi
The fastest and most comfortable transportation option for traveling to the airport from the city center is taxi. Traveling to the airport by taxi lasts about 15 minutes. You can call a taxi to your location or get on a taxi that you find in the city center.
Shuttle Bus
There are shuttle buses that offer transportation service between the city center and Agno Airport. You can visit the website of Shuttle Bus Sagl company and learn the departure hours of these shuttles. Traveling to the airport from the city center by shuttle takes about 20 minutes. You can get on these shuttles from the bus stops in the city center or the stops at the train station. Shuttle buses, which are among the most budget-friendly transportation options, do not cost too much. You can make the payment to the driver after getting on the bus. It is free for the children under 6 years of age. Children between 6-16 also do not pay any amount if they are traveling with their parents.
Train
If you want to travel to Agno Airport by train, you need to get off at the station in the Agno village that is about 10-minute walk away to the terminal. FLP Lugano-Ponte Tresa trains, which regularly offer service between 06:25 am and 08:10 pm every day on weekdays, depart from the central railway station (Ponte Tresa) located in the city center. These trains depart every 15 minutes. On Sundays and holidays, the trains depart every 30 minutes.
Car Rental
You can visit one of the car rental offices in Lugano city center or make a reservation online for a vehicle that is suitable for your needs. You can rent a car from one of the companies such as Avis, Europcar, Hertz, Budget and Sixt as well as the local companies. The airport is located at the nearest junction of the highway A2, and you do not have any problems in terms of long or short-term parking areas. You can easily find your direction with the signs that you will see on the road to the airport.
Hotel Transfer
If the hotel you will stay in offers hotel transfer service, you can benefit from it and comfortably travel to the airport. This is one of the most comfortable options. You can contact your hotel before your travel in order to find out whether they offer this service. Some hotels offer this service for free.
Airport Information
Located in the southernmost point of Switzerland, Agno Airport (also known as Lugano Airport) is located 6 kilometers west of Lugano city center, which is one of Switzerland's financial centers. The airport is located only 30 kilometers away from the Swiss-Italian border and is known as Agno Airport since it is closer to the village of Agno.
Agno Airport, which is a regional airport, has a small terminal. Between the terminal building and the facility next to it, there is an outdoor area where you can spend pleasant time and a restaurant. The shops, where you can do shopping before your flight, surround a courtyard at the junction of these two buildings. There is also a flight school at the airport, where 2,400 airplanes land each year from domestic and international points and 200,000 passengers are welcomed. You can also benefit from services such as free Wi-Fi, ATM, currency exchange office, snack bar and restaurant.
Transportation to Athens City Center from Airport
Athens Intl. Airport
The capital of Greece, Athens, is one of the cities that informs much of today with its history and culture, and for this reason attracts millions of tourists from all over the world. Over 15 million visitors pass through the only airport of Athens, Elefterios Venizelos International Airport. It’s possible to reach Athens centre, located 20 km away from the airport by metro, train, taxi, rental car, and bus.
Bus
Elefterios Venizelos International Airport is one of the airports with the most convenient methods of reaching the city centre. You can reach the central locations of Sintagma Square, Athena Academy, and Agios Fanourious by taking the X95 from the bus stops located in front of the airport administration building. The journey to the city centre should take around an hour. Once you are at the 16th stop, Evangelismos Hospital, you can take either walk, or take the 732 bus for three stops, to reach Sintagma Square.
You can also reach various areas in Athens from the airport by taking buses 54, 608, 622, 732, and 815.
Train – Metro
There’s been a recent switch in Athens from Greek to Latin alphabet for station names, however the Latin alphabet is not yet used everywhere. This is why it’s probably a good idea to keep an idea of how many stops you need to go when using public transport. You should pay attention to this detail is you take the train from Venizelos Airport to the centre.
The M3 line goes all the way to Sintagma from the airport. Sintagma is the 15th stop. Once you’ve reached Sintagma Square, the home of the Greek Parliament, then you can reach Omonia, another important centre, in just 3 stops by taking the metro. There is also a train line going directly to Port Pire from the airport.
Taxi
It’s possible to reach everywhere in the city by taking a taxi from the airport, however the fixed fare is only applied to Sintagma, Monastiraki, and Omonia. The good conversation of Athenian taxi drivers can be an additional bonus.
Car Rental
You can explore the various areas of Athens and Greece by renting a car at Venizelos Airport. The airport does offer its own car rental service alongside the many car rental agencies. Once you’ve rented your car you should travel 9km along the A64 and then join up with the Attiki highway. This will take you directly to centre of Athens.