Sofia city centretoSofia airport

The airport asks you to be there two hours before the flight, and adds that the Bulgarian Civil Aviation Administration recommends at least two hours and thirty minutes. From Serdika the metro takes 27 minutes, so leave the centre about three hours before departure.

Before the first metro, night bus N4 leaves Knyaz Alexander I Square at 23:55, 00:55, 01:55, 02:55 and 03:55, 36 minutes to Terminal 2 and Terminal 1 a few minutes before it. The first bus 84 leaves General Gurko Street at 04:40 on weekdays and 05:05 at weekends.

At Serdika use the M1/M4 platforms, not the M2 platforms at Serdika II, and take a train signed Letishte Sofia (Sofia Airport); trains signed Business Park go the other way at Mladost 1. First train 05:08 on weekdays and 05:10 at weekends, last 23:23 and 23:32; 27 minutes to Terminal 2.

Bus 84 to the airport starts from its terminus on General Gurko Street and also picks up at Orlov Most; it ends at Terminal 2, so for Terminal 1 take the free shuttle from there. The N4 boards at Knyaz Alexander I Square and passes Serdika metro station a minute later.

The same EUR 0.80: tap your bank card at the metro gates or on the bus, or use a 24-hour or 72-hour pass. On the bus the driver sells a EUR 1.00 ticket; at night the EUR 1.00 night pass is tapped on the bus or paid in cash to the inspector on board.

No fixed fare applies from town. Yellow!, the airport's contracted operator, runs a meter: EUR 1.50 to start, 0.75 a kilometre and 0.25 a minute waiting by day, 1.70 and 0.85 a kilometre from 22:00 to 06:00, plus EUR 0.60 for a booked car. Order on 02 91119 or in its app.

The metro ends at Terminal 2. Low-cost flights such as Wizz Air and easyJet have been leaving from Terminal 1, most other airlines from Terminal 2; check your flight on the airport's departures board and allow for the free shuttle, every 20 to 40 minutes, if you need Terminal 1.