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Q: How do I get from Belfast city centre to Belfast airport?

Airport Express 300: £8 for one traveler, 50 min, boarding at Belfast Grand Central Station, or Queen Street five to ten minutes later.

City to airport · One way · All prices are totals for 1 adult · All service hours

1 way to the airport

The airport publishes no set number of hours to arrive before your flight. First departures

Recommended

The cheapest way to the airport. Nothing listed is quicker.

Airport Express 300

300 · Translink Ulsterbus

50 min rideEvery 20 minRuns all night

Belfast Grand Central StationBelfast International Airport

Non-stop24-hour service

£8total for 1 adult£8 eachBuy ticketOn Translink Ulsterbus

Pickup, hours & luggage

Boards at. Belfast Grand Central Station, or Queen Street five to ten minutes later

£8 a single, £4 for a child; from 16 you pay the adult fare, and under-fives ride free without a seat. The return is £11 (£5.50 child) for two journeys within a month. Sold in the mLink app, online, at Translink machines at the airport bus stop and Grand Central, or by tapping a contactless card or device for the same fare.

Price for every party size · Fare source

Fares are the same ticket ridden the other way; the boarding points, hours and, where a ride differs by direction, the ride time are read for this direction. Also runs to the airport, boarding point and hours in town not recorded yet: Belfast Airport Taxis to Belfast city centre, Welcome Pickups transfer from Belfast International. Every way from Belfast airport into Belfast

How do I get from Belfast city centre to Belfast airport?

For one traveler the Airport Express 300 is the way we recommend: £8 in total, 50 min, boarding at Belfast Grand Central Station. It runs at any hour. The airport publishes no set number of hours to arrive before your flight; its own advice is to allow enough time to check in and clear security, and to check the hand-luggage rules before you travel.

First departures

Earliest at the airport first

Airport Express 300

Any hour.

Arrival times add the recorded ride time to the first departure; no walking or waiting is added.

Early flight?

The 300 runs all night from Grand Central: 22:30, then 00:00, 01:00, 02:00, 03:00, 04:00 and 05:00, every night. Between midnight and 04:30 the station opens through the night gate, left of the main entrance, to anyone with a ticket or buying one for a departure within the hour.

Before you leave for Belfast Airport

From the centre to each way out

How early to be there

The airport publishes no set number of hours to arrive before your flight; its own advice is to allow enough time to check in and clear security, and to check the hand-luggage rules before you travel.

Early flights

Where the bus leaves from

The 300 leaves from Belfast Grand Central Station and picks up again on Queen Street five to ten minutes later. It takes 35 to 50 minutes to the airport.

Tickets

Airport tickets are sold at the Translink machines in Grand Central, online and in the mLink app. If you bought the £11 return on the way in, its second half covers this trip.

Questions

How early should I be at Belfast airport?

Where does the Airport Express 300 leave from in Belfast?

Belfast Grand Central Station, or Queen Street five to ten minutes later.

My flight is early. What runs before the first train?

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