The Krakow airport is situated conveniently on the Balice outskirts of the city. It’s just 15 km away from the city center. The airport itself is a small one - nothing comparing to Amsterdam’s airport or Berlin, but nice and tidy, not too crowded, even though it’s the second busiest international airport Poland after Warsaw.

Krakow’s John Paul II International Airport has regular direct air connections from and to major European and American cities - Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London, New York, Paris, Rome, and Vienna, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, as well as Athens, Barcelona, Belfast, Birmingham, Bologna, Budapest, Cologne, Cork, Dortmund, Dublin, Glasgow, Helsinki, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Milan, Munich, Oslo, Prague, Stuttgart, and Tel Aviv. Transit connections via Warsaw link Krakow with Los Angeles and Miami in the USA, and with Bangkok, Cairo, Damascus, Dubai, Istanbul, Kiev, Larnaca, Lyon, Minsk, Moscow, Nice, Peking, Riga, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, and Vilnius among others.

There are also domestic lines to Poland’s capital city Warsaw and Gdansk, Wroclaw if you have some spare money and can affort that.

Apart from LOT - polish airlines, there are regular services provided by Aer Lingus, Alitalia, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Centralwings, CSA, Direct Fly, easyJet, El-Al, Eurolot, Finnair, Germanwings, Jet2.com, Lufthansa, Malev, Norwegian, Ryanair, Sterling.dk, SkyEurope, and Sterlink.dk.

Transport to the airport:

The easiest way to get to the Krakow airport from the city is by car or taxi (it’s about 30 minutes drive). From around the Main Train Station you can also get a shuttle train or bus, number 192 (the only one going directly to the airport).

Shuttle train service link to the Krakow John Paul II International Airport is an easy and convenient budget way to get to the airport. On average, trains run every thirty minutes between 4 a.m. and midnight. The 15-kilometer journey lasts about 15 minutes. A single ticket costs an equivalent of roughly 1.5 euro. So - something to backpackers - even though a taxi would cost you around 15 euro.

Airport Facilities:

Among other facilities there are many duty-free shops selling souvenirs, jewelry, folk art, alcohol (you may want to get a polish vodka as a souvenir - totally cheap for about 5-10 Euro), tobacco, food, etc. There are also new stands, coffees, restaurant - everything you would get at every other airport.

Car rental desks are situated in the public area opposite the exit from arrival hall.

Contact information to the airport and airlines:

Contact information of Krakow’s John Paul II International Airport of Balice.
24-hour airport information phone service: (+48) 801055000 or 122955800

Postal address: Miedzynarodowy Port Lotniczy im. Jana Pawła II Kraków-Balice Sp. z o.o., ul. Kpt. M. Medweckiego 1, 32-083 Balice, Poland

Email: lotnisko@lotnisko-balice.pl

Lost Luggage phone (+48) 122855121

Customs phone (+48) 126393236

The manager of the passenger terminal phone (+48) 126393309

Company headquarters phone: (+48) 126393000, fax (+48) 124117977

Car park phone (+48) 122953065

Carriers providing regular services at the Krakow airport:

The following airlines maintain regular air connections with Krakow’s John Paul II International Airport in Balice:

Austrian, 23 Lubicz Street, 31-503 Kraków, phone (+48) 126296666, fax 6296670
British Airways, MPL Kraków – Balice, ul. kpt. M. Medweckiego 1, phone (+48) 122855033 or (+48) 126393272 , fax (+48) 122855770

Centralwings, ul. 17 stycznia 39, 00-906 Warszawa, phone (+48) 801 454545 or (+48) 225750045
CSA, Hotel Jan III. Sobieski, Plac Artura Zawiszy 1, 02-025 Warsaw, phone (+48) 226596799, (+48) 226687471, fax (+48) 226596258.

EasyJet, easyLand, London Luton Airport, Bedfordshire, LU2 9LS, United Kingdom, phone (+48) 226393428, hot line: +44 870 6 000 000.

Germanwings, Germanwings GmbH, Terminalstr. 10, 51447 Cologne, Germany, phone 00 800 331 1311.
LOT, MPL Krakow–Balice, ul. kpt. M. Medweckiego 1, phone/fax (+48) 0801 703703, ticket office phone (+48) 122855070
Lufthansa, Warsaw Towers, ul.Sienna 39, 00-121 Warszawa, phone (+48) 223381300, info line (+48) 0801312312, fax (+48) 223381301

Malev, Ilmet Tower, Al. Jana Pawla II 15, Warszawa, phone (+48) 226977472, (+48) 226504519, fax (+48) 226977477
SkyEurope, SkyEurope Airlines, a. s., Ivanská cesta 26, P.O.Box 24, 820 01 Bratislava 21 Slovakia. Phone (+48) 122906770.