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SKA1 trainorPre-booked private transfer?

The short answer

For one traveler the SKA1 train is cheaper by PLN 90. That does not change up to 8 travelers.

The SKA1 train is quicker: 17 min against 25 min. The Pre-booked private transfer varies between 19 and 35 minutes.

SKA1 train: 04:17–01:47. Pre-booked private transfer: 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. The Pre-booked private transfer is charged in euros; its column is converted at the reference rate in its fare note.
TravelersSKA1 trainPre-booked private transferDifference
1PLN 20about PLN 110PLN 90
2PLN 40about PLN 110PLN 70
3PLN 60about PLN 110PLN 50
4PLN 80about PLN 154PLN 74
5PLN 100about PLN 154PLN 54
6PLN 120about PLN 154PLN 34
7PLN 140about PLN 154PLN 14
8PLN 160about PLN 352PLN 192

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Where each one leaves you
SKA1 · 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.

SKA1 train: price for every party size

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