Taking a taxi to an airport from the city center can be a very painful experience for tourists and business travelers alike.
And the price trend is upwards in almost all of Europe, according to the annual study* carried out by AirMundo.com. Galloping inflation would have thus caused an average increase of 10% in these prices to 45 euros, in particular due to the increase in fuel, for a trip of about 34 minutes on average.
Of course, this average hides strong disparities. Not surprisingly, trips to London airports are the most expensive. For the good and simple reason that most of them are very far from the city center like Stansed, 63 kilometers from the British capital.
Price per kilometer: Geneva is the most expensive ahead of Nice
With an average price of 118 euros (compared to 112 a year ago) it is ahead of Luton (located 55 kilometers away) where the journey costs an average of 112 euros.
The third most expensive route is that of Milan Bergamo located 52 kilometers from the Lombard city with an average price of 110 euros. Then comes another English airport: London-Gatwick (107 euros for 47 kilometers compared to 105 euros a year ago).
If we think about the price/kilometres, perhaps more eloquent data, it is the Geneva airport that takes the prize (6.8 euros) ahead of Nice (4.7 euros for an airport 7 kilometers from the center), Zurich (4.2 euros) and Copenhagen (4 euros).
Therefore, trips to French airports are not among the most expensive, in particular because fixed-price packages apply (in Paris, for example).
Going to Roissy from the center of Paris costs 58 euros, which puts the airport in the best place.
The cheapest routes in Turkey
However, per kilometer, the price is higher than to go to London-Stansed: 2.23 euros/km compared to 1.87.
Paris-Orly ranks 24th with a fixed rate of 37 euros, but a cost of 2.06 euros per kilometer. Once again, it doesn’t. The same as Nice, which ranks 29th but, as we have seen, has the second highest price per kilometer.
The cheapest connections are in Portugal in Lisbon (15 euros, 2.1 euros per kilometer), but especially in Turkey with the Antalya record showing an average price of 5 euros, or 33 cents per kilometer!
A floor price mainly due to the depreciation of the Turkish lira against the euro.
*: AirMundo.com compares taxi fares at the 50 busiest airports in Europe, every year in summer. Comparisons are made on the basis of both the price of the taxi ride and the price per kilometre. For airports closer to the city center, taxi fare is a preferable comparison, as prices are lower due to less distance traveled. For airports further from the city center, the price per kilometer is a more favorable comparison, as the price per kilometer decreases as the distance increases.
Source: BFM TV
