For one traveler the SKA1 train is cheaper by up to PLN 69. The Kraków Airport Taxi, zone fare fare is sold "from" a price rather than at it, so this comparison holds only at the advertised prices and the real answer can change with the day you travel.
The SKA1 train is quicker: 17 min against 25 min. The Kraków Airport Taxi, zone fare varies between 19 and 35 minutes.
SKA1 train: 04:17–01:47. Kraków Airport Taxi, zone fare: Runs all night.
Priced against each other
Whole-party totals · adult fares
What each costs for the whole party, in PLN. The cheaper of the two is marked on every row.
Travelers
SKA1 train
Kraków Airport Taxi, zone fare
Difference
1
PLN 20
from PLN 89
up to PLN 69
2
PLN 40
from PLN 89
up to PLN 49
3
PLN 60
from PLN 89
up to PLN 29
4
PLN 80
from PLN 89
up to PLN 9
5
PLN 100
from PLN 89
up to PLN 11
6
PLN 120
from PLN 89
up to PLN 31
7
PLN 140
from PLN 89
up to PLN 51
8
PLN 160
from PLN 178
up to PLN 18
Side by side
Where each one leaves you
regional · Koleje MałopolskieSKA1 train
From
Kraków Lotnisko station, behind the multi-storey car park P1 and joined to the terminal by a covered footbridge
To
Kraków Główny in 17 minutes — Kraków Bronowice in 10 and Kraków Łobzów in 13 for the west of the city — then on across the river to Grzegórzki, Zabłocie and Płaszów, and to Wieliczka
Luggage
Free — "przewóz bagażu: bezpłatnie" on the airport's page. A dog is PLN 3.
Runs
04:17–01:47
Journey
17 min
The joint 70-MINUTE ticket is not valid here. It covers the train at every station named Kraków "z wyłączeniem Kraków Lotnisko" — the airport is the one exclusion. Only the PLN 20 airport fare boards this train at this station.
The PLN 20 is an airport-only price. Every fare table in KMŁ's tariff says it does not apply to Kraków Lotnisko; the same distance elsewhere on the line is PLN 7.50.
Bus 300 from the forecourt is PLN 6 and, by the authority's stop coordinates, drops you nearer the Rynek than this train does. The train is the right answer for Kraków Główny itself and for anywhere on the line beyond it.
No train between 01:47 and 04:17. Night bus 902 covers those hours at 02:16, 03:16 and 03:51.
The last half-hourly train is 22:17; after that the intervals are 60, 50, 50 and 50 minutes.
taxi · MPL Services, the airport company's taxi subsidiaryKraków Airport Taxi, zone fare
From
The covered Kraków Airport Taxi rank beside the passenger terminal, or by phone or online; the dispatch office answers 06:00 to 22:00, the rank works around the clock
To
Any address; the zone is read off the meter at the end of the ride
Luggage
Carried in the boot; the fare is for the ride.
Runs
All night
Journey
19–35 min
PLN 89 is the floor for the center, not necessarily the price. The band is decided by the meter's distance, and the operator's own map puts the Rynek in the PLN 109 band and the station in the PLN 129 band. Ask which band before you get in.
It never beats the bus: eight people in a van and a sedan pay from PLN 178 against PLN 48 on the 300. It does beat the train from five people, if the ride really is zone 4.
No authority states a taxi journey time. The 19 to 35 minutes here are the scheduled times of bus 300 and night bus 902 over the same roads, not a taxi figure.
A larger party should tell the driver 30 minutes ahead; the rules call a bigger group an atypical service. A van is not guaranteed at the rank without notice.
The city's meter ceiling (PLN 9 plus PLN 4 a kilometer by day) is a rule for licensed taxis inside Kraków's limits; the airport is outside them, in gmina Zabierzów, and this tariff is the airport company's own.
It is the only option that runs at every hour with no wait; the 902 is hourly in the dead of night.
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