100E Airport Express –shuttle service providing a direct connection between Ferenc Liszt International Airport and Budapest city centre
Bus line 100E Airport Express provides a direct, convenient, economical and fast connection between Liszt Ferenc International Airport and Deák Ferenc Square, a key transport hub on the Pest side of the city. Buy and validate tickets directly on the bus using your bankcard for the Budapest Pay&GO service.
Buses run around the clock, every 6-10 minutes during the day, every 10-15 minutes in the morning and evening, and every 20-40 minutes on average at night.
The buses run around the clock, every 7-12 minutes during the day, every 15-20 minutes in the evening, and every 30-40 minutes at night between midnight and about 3:30 a.m.
100E Airport Express passenger drop-off points on the way to the city centre:
• Kálvin tér metro station
• Astoria metro station
• Deák Ferenc tér metro station
100E Airport Express boarding points in the city centre on the way to the airport:
• Deák Ferenc tér metro station
• Astoria metro station (this stop is served only between 00:12 and 04:32 in the morning)
• Kálvin tér metro station
Attention! Passengers require a special ticket for 100E Airport Express: the airport shuttlebus single ticket costs 2,200 HUF. Other types of tickets or passes are NOT accepted on this direct service.
200E – regular, scheduled public transport service to the city
Bus line 200E operates day and night between Terminal 2 and Kőbánya-Kispest metro station. At night, the route is extended to Határ út station. BKK single tickets, multi-day travelcards or passes are required for travel. (Please note that the airport shuttle bus single ticket is not accepted!)
At night (23:00-4:00), bus 200E operates to Határ út station, from where night bus lines 914, 914A, 950 and 950A will take you to the city centre.
Key stops of bus line 200E:
- Ferihegy vasútállomás (railway station): transfers available to the network of MÁV-Start Hungarian State Railways, to reach Nyugati pályaudvar (Western railway terminal) in the city centre, or the cities of Szolnok, Debrecen, Nyíregyháza and Szeged in the eastern part of Hungary.
- Kőbánya-Kispest M: transfers to MÁV-Start trains and to buses serving East and South Pest.
- Határ út M: transfers to several daytime and night buses to South Pest.
The following diagram depicts the information above:
From the airport to the city center:
From the city centre to the airport:
For timetables, please visit the BKK website.
Traveling with a BKK ticket, travelcard or pass in Budapest
Use the Budapest Pay&GO service on the 100E Airport Express, which allows you to quickly and easily purchase and validate your airport shuttle bus single ticket on the spot with a bankcard, using the on-board device.
In addition, 100E Airport Express tickets and most BKK tickets and passes are now available digitally in the BudapestGO app and other mobile apps.
Single tickets and airport shuttle bus single tickets are valid for one ride, without any trip interruption or transfer. The metro network is an exception in terms of ticket validation: there is no need to validate a new ticket when transferring between metro lines.
You need to validate your single tickets at the start of your journey.
Paper tickets: use a validating machine on board the vehicles or by metro station entrances - it will stamp a code on the ticket or punch a hole.
Digital tickets: scan the validation code stickers, which you will find at the entrance of the metro on the side of the paper-ticket validators and outside by the doors on street-level transport.
Time-based tickets (30 or 90 minutes), which are available only digitally, must always be validated when you board a different vehicle.
Daily travelcards and passes: no validation required, valid for an unlimited number of a trips during the validity period, non-transferable.
Ticket sales points
For the 100E Airport Express, it's easiest to buy your ticket on the bus and validate it with a bankcard in the same transaction through the BudapestPay&Go device.
Several types of public transport tickets and passes are available for purchase at the BKK customer service centres at Terminals 2A and 2B, as well as from BKK ticket vending machines near the entry points to the terminals. Agents at the BKK customer service points provide information on public transport and assistance with journey planning for trips within Budapest.
The airport shuttle bus single ticket can also be purchased in the BudapestGO app.
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BKK ticket vending machines feature a menu system in English and German, in addition to Hungarian.
At the Tourist Information – Budapestinfo Point counters on the arrivals level of Terminals 2A and 2B, you can also buy 24, 48 and 72 hour Budapest Cards, which offer free public transport on BKK services and additional discounts during their validity. Please visit budapest-card.com/ or bkk.hu/en for more information. (The Budapest Card is not valid on bus line 100E Airport Express and on the Buda Castle Funicular.)
