| Popular Airport | Fortaleza Pinto Martins Intl. Airport |
|---|---|
| Popular Airlines | |
| Approximate Flight Duration | 14 hour 50 min |
| Approximate Travel Distance | 11859 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.
Pinto Martins International Airport is located 8 kilometers of Fortaleza city center. You can easily travel to the city center from the airport by benefitting from various transportation alternatives such as bus, private car rental and taxi.
Since the distance between the city center and airport is very short, the cost of travelling by taxi isn’t high. Coopertaxi, which offers service with its private vehicles as well as regular taxis at Pinto Martins Airport, is one of the official companies of the airport and is located just in front of the passenger terminal. You can find a taxi at any time of the day.
If you want to travel to the city center from the airport by using a means of public transportation, you can get on a bus which is slower than taxi since it picks up passengers at many stops. The route of the bus numbered 404 that you can get on from the bus stop of the airport is Airport – Bus Station – City center and again airport. Apart from this bus route operating at frequent intervals for 24 hours, the buses 066 and 027 also depart from the airport.
If you want to rent a car for travelling from Pinto Martins Airport to the center of Fortaleza, which is one of the liveliest cities of Brazil and is known as a “party city”, you can receive your car from one of the car rental companies Alamo and National offering service in the terminal building. If you wish, you can also rent a limousine for a more luxurious travel. You can also reduce your transportation cost by using a larger vehicle with other passengers.
