Popular Airport | Erkilet Intl. - Kayseri Erkilet Airport |
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Approximate Flight Duration | 3 hour 40 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 3025 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.
Kayseri Airport is only 5 kilometers away from the city center. You can benefit from the options such as taxi, car rental and bus to get to the city center from the airport.
Taxi is the easiest way to get from the airport to the city center or other districts in Kayseri. You can also find out the list prices of the airport taxi stand online. You can reach the city center from the airport by taxi for 20TL within approximately 15 minutes. You can go to Erciyes University and the coach station by paying 30-35 TL. In addition to the central points in the city, you can benefit from the predetermined fixed taxi fares if you want to go to the tourist attractions such as Mount Erciyes and Cappadocia by taxi. Taxi fare is 90TL for Erciyes and 180TL for Cappadocia. A few passengers can travel together by taxi and share the taxi fare. (prices of June 2015)
You can find the offices of car rental companies such as Europcar, Thrifty and Sixt in both domestic and international arrivals terminals of the airport.
You can prefer to get to the city center by taking a bus or dolmush passing through the stops which are just a few hundred meters away from the exit of Kayseri Airport. But if you have luggage, this journey may be a little bit tiresome. You can take the municipal buses 100 and 102. By taking the bus 102, you can reach the Belsin Son Durak (the last stop) by passing through the stops Yeni Mahalle, Mevlana Veterinary Faculty, İstasyon Caddesi, Medrese Onü and Hunat. By bus 100, you can get to the Belsin Son Durak (the last stop) or get off at an appropriate stop by passing through Mahalle, Mevlana 2 Mit Binası, Sümer Yüzme Havuzu, Barbaros 1 and Hunat.
If you cannot find a bus at your landing time, you can get to Erciyes by Develi minibuses (dolmush) or taxi after going to the city center. Those who want to visit tourist attractions such as Cappadocia and Ürgüp should firstly go to the bus station by taxi and then take a bus here.
Another option you can prefer to reach the city center is the Havaş shuttle services. You can easily reach many points including the Intercity Bus Terminal by taking the shuttle services which begin to serve passengers in the early hours.