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

Airlink 100: £6 for one traveler, 24–41 min, boarding at Waverley Bridge, beside Waverley station.

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

2 ways to the airport

Edinburgh Airport sets no fixed number of hours: it says to time your arrival for when your airline’s check-in desk opens rather than arriving hours early. First departures

Recommended

The cheapest way to the airport. The Edinburgh Trams is 1 minute quicker for £1.90 more, which is not worth it at this party size.

Airlink 100

100 · Lothian Buses

24–41 min rideEvery 10 minRuns all night

Waverley BridgeStop A on the plaza outside the terminal

24-hour service

£6total for 1 adult£6 eachBuy ticket2 places to buy

Pickup, hours & luggage

Boards at. Waverley Bridge, beside Waverley station

The Airport Single is £6.00 in cash (exact fare), by contactless at the door, or in the app; children 5 to 15 pay £3.00, and up to three under-fives ride free with a paying adult. An open return is £8.50 (£4.25 child); a family open return for two adults and three children is £22.00. The £6.00 City DAY is not valid on the Airlink, but the £14.00 Network DAY is.

Price for every party size · Fare source

Tram

Edinburgh Trams

Edinburgh Trams · Edinburgh Trams

35 min rideEvery 7 min05:42–00:16

St Andrew SquareThe tram stop on the plaza outside the terminal

Non-stopLuggage space

£7.90total for 1 adult£7.90 eachBuy ticketOn Edinburgh Trams

Pickup, hours & luggage

Boards at. St Andrew Square, the stop nearest Waverley

The Airport Single is £7.90 at the platform machine or in the app, £7.50 bought in advance online. Children 5 to 15 pay £4.00; up to three infants travel free with a paying passenger. An Airport Open Return is £9.50 (£5.00 child); a family airport open return for two adults and three children is £28.00. The £2.40 city single, the £6.00 City DAY and the £5.70 daily contactless cap are all void at the airport stop.

Luggage. Six luggage racks on each tram, including racks for large suitcases, by the operator's own account.

Hours. Every 10 minutes early and late, every 7 minutes 07:22–20:26 on weekdays; at weekends the first is 05:40 and the 7-minute window runs 09:21–22:26. The last tram is 00:16 every night, over an hour after the last one back at 22:52.

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: Citylink AIR, Ember E1, Pre-booked private transfer, Private transfer to Glasgow, Private transfer to Dundee, Welcome Pickups transfer to Glasgow, Welcome Pickups transfer to Dundee. Every way from Edinburgh airport into Edinburgh

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

For one traveler the Airlink 100 is the way we recommend: £6 in total, 24–41 min, boarding at Waverley Bridge. It runs at any hour. Edinburgh Airport sets no fixed number of hours: it says to time your arrival for when your airline’s check-in desk opens rather than arriving hours early, and to allow more time if you are travelling in by bus or tram.

First departures

Earliest at the airport first

Airlink 100

Any hour.

Edinburgh Trams

First 05:42 from St Andrew Square, at the airport by about 06:17.

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

Early flight?

The last tram towards the airport is 00:16, over an hour after the last one back at 22:52 — check the app if travelling very late. The Airlink runs all night in both directions, so there is always a bus for an early flight.

Before you leave for Edinburgh Airport

From the centre to each way out

How early to be there

Edinburgh Airport sets no fixed number of hours: it says to time your arrival for when your airline’s check-in desk opens rather than arriving hours early, and to allow more time if you are travelling in by bus or tram.

Early flights

Tickets

Buy the same way as arriving: cash or contactless on the Airlink, or at a tram platform machine or in the app. A city single or the City DAY ticket covers neither — only buses 17 and 18 take the ordinary Lothian fare into the airport.

Uber and Bolt

Uber and Bolt set down at the same Pickup & Dropoff zone used for collecting arriving passengers, on the ground floor of the multi-storey outside the terminal: £8.50 for the first ten minutes, then £1 a minute.

Questions

How early should I be at Edinburgh airport?

Where does the Airlink 100 leave from in Edinburgh?

Waverley Bridge, beside Waverley station.

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

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