Getting from Antalya Airport by bus or tram

Two separate systems cover public transport from this airport, and they’re easy to mix up. A transport card covers the tram into central Antalya and the city bus network on the usual urban fare. Separately, the ordinary municipal intercity bus reaches a handful of resort towns further along the coast, on the same fare a local resident travelling between towns would pay — it is not a resort shuttle and it does not go to your hotel door.

The tram into the city

The tram line reaches the airport itself, with a stop opposite the arrivals building — opened comparatively recently, and a route several competing pages likely still don’t mention. It serves one of the two international terminal buildings directly. If you land at the other one, a free internal shuttle connects the two buildings; the tram platform is not a walk from every arrivals hall.

The tram runs frequently through the day and does not run all night, so a very late or very early flight is better matched to a taxi or a pre-booked car than to waiting on a platform.

Paying the fare

A transport card costs less per ride than a one-off paper ticket, and tapping a contactless bank card directly at the reader costs more again than either. If you’re going to take more than one ride during your stay — into town and back, say — a card is worth getting rather than buying single tickets each time. Transferring between the tram and the city bus network on the same card doesn’t cost extra.

The intercity bus to Kemer, Alanya and Kaş

The municipality’s own intercity service reaches these three towns from the airport on the standard local fare — cheap, and genuinely useful if you’re travelling light and don’t mind the walk or short taxi at the far end. It is not the same product as a resort transfer or a dedicated airport shuttle: it runs a town-to-town route on a public timetable, and it sets you down at an ordinary stop rather than at a hotel.

If your hotel is not within easy reach of the bus stop, weigh this against a pre-booked transfer or the metered taxi rather than assuming the bus gets you the whole way.

What this page won’t quote you a price for

The airport’s own numbered shuttle lines. A tariff change removed the fare these used to charge, and no current, reliable figure has replaced it anywhere this page can verify — a number you see quoted elsewhere for these lines is very likely out of date rather than simply approximate.

The HAVAŞ shuttle. The operator’s own website returns an error on every page for the Antalya route. Only third-party listing sites quote a fare for it, without saying where the number came from, so this page doesn’t repeat it.

Both of these will appear here with a source and a date once one exists to cite — not before.

Where to next

Comparing the bus against a taxi or a pre-booked car for the full picture. What the metered taxi actually costs if the bus doesn’t reach where you’re going.